Cracking sound using Chrome

I recently bought a Macbook Air and I am experiencing a weird behaviour. When playing videos on YouTube (or others) and music from Grooveshark and others using Chrome (latest version 29) there is a cracking sound. It seems like speakers are broken, like an old tv. But if I play the same videos or sound using Safari, Opera or Firefox there is no cracking sound.
Any ideas?
Thank you

Considering many other problems reported with Chrome, Chrome and Mac OS's seem to have a bad fit. The solution is not to use Chrome.
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P.S
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hi i just like to say i had a similar fault though i would be surprised if it causing yours,but you never know,my fault was my laptop lid, [9 months old] it contains the mic ,and when the lid was in a certain angle crackles could be heard worse when i had my external sound card in, it was a faulty membrane [ lid to body] easily missed by engineer because it was the same angle all the time it happened,good luck, PS you English is very good
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I hope you understand how Important this is for me and I hope I resolve the problem as soon as possible.
P.S
I would like to state that I am well aware of the grammar mistakes I have made in the text below and I would like to ask for your apologies as I am not a native English language speaker.

hi i just like to say i had a similar fault though i would be surprised if it causing yours,but you never know,my fault was my laptop lid, [9 months old] it contains the mic ,and when the lid was in a certain angle crackles could be heard worse when i had my external sound card in, it was a faulty membrane [ lid to body] easily missed by engineer because it was the same angle all the time it happened,good luck, PS you English is very good
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