Google Chrome Crashes Unity Desktop

[Amichai Rotman]

Thanks a bunch man!

That solved it!

+1 beer on me ;-)

Amichai.

2015-03-17 21:49 GMT+02:00 John Hupp <ubuntu at prpcompany.com>:

> On 3/17/2015 3:16 PM, Amichai Rotman wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on on an Acer Aspire 5715Z (Intel T2390 with
>> 2Gb of RAM).
>>
>> I am experiencing a weird problem:
>>
>> Every time I open Google and visit the Extensions Gallery, the whole
>> Unity Desktop crashes. Restarting the LightDM service doesn't help and I
>> have to reboot the machine.
>>
>> I tried to delete the profile directory under $HOME/.local/google-chrome/
>> - same...
>>
>> Another weird problem - every time I enter the desktop I have to unlock
>> the Login Keyring, although I have changed the password to a blank
>> password....
>>
>> This is a friends computer, whom I convinced Ubuntu is the best OS to
>> replace Windows...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Amichai.
>>
>>
> The first thing I would try is disabling Chrome hardware acceleration, at
> Settings: Show advanced settings: (un-check) Use hardware acceleration when
> available.
>
> I would not expect it to be related to the Login Keyring problem though,
> unless that was crash damage.  (And I don't have any advice about this
> second problem.)
>
>
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