Closing due to this bug being 5 years old. Please file a new bug if this still applies to recent releases of chromium-browser.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- 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/1090526 Title: browser freezes completely Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Starting chromium-browser and entering the following URL completely freezes the whole browser (not only a tab): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zotero- connector/ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc The browser output includes the following suspicious line: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The process that takes up 100% of the CPU is: chromium-browser --type=gpu-process --channel=12010.2.405749741 --gpu- vendor-id=0x10de --gpu-device-id=0x00cd --gpu-driver-vendor=NVIDIA --gpu-driver-version=304. The graphics card I am using: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV41 [Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation wx4300 Workstation Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at fd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fea00000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia_current, nouveau, nvidiafb Additional ubuntu information: dpkg -l | grep chromium: ii chromium-browser 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 i386 Chromium browser ii chromium-browser-l10n 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 all chromium-browser language packages ii chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 i386 Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 chromium-browser: Installed: 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive/ quantal/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1090526/+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