Injected web3 stops synchronizing blockchain blocks.

To Reproduce

It seems to happen after a while, when Chrome is left open. It happens to me approx once a day but I have colleagues that never faced this issue :/

When it happens this JS code (from any chrome tabulation) returns an old block and it's stuck (it never changes):

web3.eth.getBlock('latest', function(e, { timestamp }) { console.log(new Date(timestamp * 1000)) });

To solve it I have to kill all my chrome instances or reset my account from Metamask.

Browser details:

• OS: Arch Linux and OSX
• Browser: chrome and chromium
• MetaMask Version: 4.16.0
• New UI