Michael Gilbert of Debian apparently carries some patches for chromium that supposedly get rid of SSE2 instructions in the Debian chromium package (at least in experimental?). User opera posted a link to the corresponding bug report in Debian. I'm not sure what the status of this is or if Ubuntu would be willing to use the same patches, as they seem pretty untested and impact/maintenance burden for future chromium releases is not clear.
I wouldn't recommend using Chromium 34, as each of 35, 36 and 37 has a lot of security fixes that are not in 34. So that would be somewhat dangerous. I also don't know about an easy way to revert to 34, as most PPAs or other repositories are probably updated by now. Maybe you can find the old deb files somewhere. Consider using a different browser :/ -- 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/1353185 Title: Chromium 36 upgrade will not execute Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Chromium will no longer start after version 36 upgrade. Previous version worked ok. Execution from command line reports "Illegal instruction (core dumped)". Nothing displayed on screen. lshw reports: description: Tower Computer version: System Version width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 configuration: boot=normal chassis=tower *-core description: Motherboard product: A7V8X vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: Award Software, Inc. physical id: 0 version: ASUS A7V8X ACPI BIOS Revision 1010 *-cpu description: CPU product: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics) *-memory description: System Memory slot: System board or motherboard size: 1GiB ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: chromium-browser 36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.12.04.0~pkg897 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-67.101-generic 3.2.60 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-67-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Aug 5 19:35:30 2014 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu-2d XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu-2d:/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu-2d:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ DmesgChromium: [ 28.356536] type=1400 audit(1407283433.748:15): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session-wrapper//chromium_browser" pid=853 comm="apparmor_parser" Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-09-15 (689 days ago) chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1353185/+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
