This is happening to me too: opening with a temporary profile (from the Launcher icon) does not exhibit the problem, but opening an incognito window does. Sometimes my main Chromium profile also shows the problem; if I quit the browser and re-open it the problem fixes itself for that session.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1223251 Title: recent saucy update lost its chrome Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: The latest chromium update is broken. It has no chrome: no location bar, no bookmarks, you can't open new tabs by hand. It starts multiple copies of itself (and fails to grab the profile lock, and fails to realise it, and only complains about not being able to log in to the account sync thing) and you end up with multiple chromium icons in the launcher. Focus is all over the place. It is now slightly less usable than firefox. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: chromium-browser 29.0.1547.65-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Sep 10 10:00:29 2013 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-09 (1066 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-11 (90 days ago) chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser --password-store=gnome %U\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser --password-store=gnome %U\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b'metacity\n'/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'ubuntu-mono-dark\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Ambiance\n' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1223251/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
