Chromium freezes while typing in the omnibar

KDE base runtime 4.8.0-1
Chromium 17.0.963.46-1
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If multiple tabs are open, typing into the omni-bar will sometimes cause chromium to freeze after a few keystrokes. Removing the ~/.config/chromium directory, thereby resetting the profile, seems to make the problem go away. But allowing the profile to sync again makes the problem show up again. So it seems to be a corrupted profile, but the directory structure under .config/chromium is massive, so I don't know what exactly is causing the issue.
Running chromium under strace shows the following at the time of the freeze:
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {0x7f3bade5dbf0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3ba97db270}, 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f3bad55abd0) = 20490
wait4(20490,
If I kill -9 20490, the child process mentioned in the clone() syscall, chromium resumes and continues to function normally. Upon doing so, the strace log continues with:
[{WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGKILL}], 0, NULL) = 20490
--- {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_KILLED, si_pid=20490, si_status=SIGKILL, si_utime=11, si_stime=19} (Child exited) ---
rt_sigreturn(0x11)                      = 20490
I suspect there is some kind of race condition involved, because the problem seems to happen less frequently when chromium is running under strace (and therefore slowed down by all the logging going on).
I am right now running on a recently-reset profile that is only syncing Passwords and Extensions. I manually imported my Bookmarks via an HTML export. I've only been using chromium for a couple of hours since that last reset, but it hasn't locked up yet.
I've looked at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129632 already, and it seems to be very similar to my situation but remains unsolved. Also, Chromium has exhibited this behavior across updates to the kernel, KDE, and Chromium itself. So I don't think it's a version-related issue that will just go away.
Can anyone make any suggestions on where to go next? I'm new to Arch Linux and KDE, so some obvious things are often Big News to me, but I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. TIA for any ideas or suggestions.

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