Sorry to hear about whatever is going on between Chrome and the Console (can you try an incognito window?).
You can always test out the Vision API via the landing page (https://cloud.google.com/vision/). The full text results seem to be under the little document tab. I took a screenshot of the text above it, and it seemed to work as expected (breaking it into two paragraphs).
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not on ML APIs).
Thanks, I'm not sure what the problem could be since I've had GC bill me every month for the past couple of years for other APIs and services, perhaps I never officially enabled Cloud Vision API after it was in beta. The crash at account screen is puzzling but I'm assuming it must be on my end (conflicting plugin perhaps) -- I'll have to investigate it over the weekend. I'm hoping to use GC for a class so I'm going to try the signup and onboarding process from scratch anyway.
You can always test out the Vision API via the landing page (https://cloud.google.com/vision/). The full text results seem to be under the little document tab. I took a screenshot of the text above it, and it seemed to work as expected (breaking it into two paragraphs).
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not on ML APIs).