I recently started using Ubuntu and the chromium browser crashes many times in an hour. Perhaps, 3 to 4 times in hour. Please help me get it solved ASAP.

Hi Bryan...

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First, please read the information here and here. It's important that we have as many details as possible so that we can help you resolve your issue. Please post back with the necessary details as mentioned in the above pages.

You may be able to find information as to the cause by looking in the "/var/log/syslog" file or in the "/var/log/" folder. Another way would be to start Chromium in a terminal and then copy and paste any error messages into your next post.

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This is a poorly written question because it doesn't go into nearly enough details.

Does it actually crash or does it hang the system? I had a problem with chromium hanging the system. The only way to clear the problem was to cycle the power. Is that what you are experiencing?

If so, then you might consjider the putting the following line in your .bashrc file:

alias chrome='/opt/google/chrome/chrome --disable-gpu &'

then start chrome with the command

chrome

There are other ways to do this, but the important thing is to use the --disable-gpu switch.

I also have the same problem , suddenly everything freezes and have to reboot. It happens only on ubuntu 14.04 not on ubuntu 12.04 (same pc, dual boot) It is exactly the same with Chrome and Chromium and occurs since about 2 months. I will try the solution of JeffSilverman, hopefully it does the trick

Hi. Do you have enough space on your /home directory?
Browser have a cache and others directories to keep data; if your /home space is full, then it have a problem.
Another problem could be insuffient memory (ram and swap), or an slow transfer data speed between ram and swap. Browsers need a lot of memory dedicated. I had this problem on CPUs with slow processor/HD and little ram.

cesarbergara,

Interesting ideas.

I hav 795 GBytes free on /home. top shows that I have 1 GByte free swap space, and the swap space is empty. Of course, at the moment I am running chrome with the --gpu-disabled switch, so maybe that makes a difference.


I don't know how to measure how it long it takes to do a dirty page fault. I assumed that since RAM is so much faster than the disk, that it would be on the order of a few milliseconds. Is there a way to measure that?

Thanks for helping me to understand the issue and get it solved.