Zorin OS 17.3 freezes upon the Google Chrome browser start

Another user mentioned this recently as well:

So, I am cross linking so readers see that this is not an isolated case.

If you are intent on staying on Wayland, you can try using a chrome flag to force only Chrome to fallback to Xwayland:

chrome --disable-features=UseOzonePlatform

You might also disable Hardware Acceleration:
chrome --disable-gpu

If those work, you can set them as the exec= line in its desktop file (elevate to root, then navigate to /usr/share/applications and open the google-chrome .desktop file with a text editor):
google-chrome-stable --ozone-platform=x11 --disable-gpu

I only covered the Wayland option as it is the one you say you have not tried - and you had a while to try things...

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