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Roll20 crashes everytime I open the editor (might facepalm when you come in contact with this issue)

This has been going on for a little while now. Every time I try launching a game in roll20, my computer just gives up on me and crashes. It used to work earlier this year, but now, not so much. I use chrome and the VTT enhancement suite and I already tried to disabled VTT as well as close all of my running applications/chrome tabs but it came to the same result. Ok, so here's the facepalm: I used a 2019 Ideapad 3 made by Leveno... and it's a Chromebook. I know that you might just think that I need a better computer to run roll20 and you're probably right. But I want to at least figure out if there's anything else I can do before I resort to flat-out buying a different computer, which is less than ideal for me. I wanted to ask here first because it involves roll20, but I could also be asking the wrong people because it could just be a problem with my own computer as well. But just in case, I wanted to see if anyone see had this issue and what they did to resolve it. Thanks for reading this :)
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keithcurtis
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I don't run the game on a Chromebook, but I do a lot of work in the game on my old HP Chromebook. It's slower, and can reload if I have a lot of tabs open, but no crashes like you describe. Does this happen in a brand new game? It might be an issue with game size.
This happens every time I open the editor on my Chromebook. I haven't run a game with other people in a while and I wanted to hop on roll20 to do some work in the editor. This isn't a brand new game either. It might be an issue game size-wise but I'm not too sure about that. I don't think that there are more than 25 pages in the game right now, although I don't know exactly how many pages there are because I can't access the editor right now. But, I do know that I've been making a lot of handouts, so maybe that is linked to something..? 
To clarify on the handout thing, I've made a lot of handouts but I haven't shared them with the other players because they're for future sessions. 
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Kraynic
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Handouts aren't an issue in my experience, though they might be if many of them are using largish images.
Hmm... Well even if that's the case I guess I can't do anything about it now...
I just tried to make a new blank game and the same result happened, but slower. What I mean is that it "loaded" but it was super unusable and it slowly but surely crashed
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keithcurtis
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I'd try deleting cache at the very least. I powerwashed my Chromebook this year and it drastically improved performance.
I just finished power washing my Chromebook. It definitely helped out a bunch. I can run this properly! Now I just hope that I didn't forget to backup any files...
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keithcurtis
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The backing up files fear was what kept me from doing this for so long, but it's like a whole new machine afterwards.
Yeah... Thanks for helping me out :)