In my case, the Laine gnome-shell extension was causing all the problems. when I turned the Laine extension off both google-chrome and chromium versions 75 (newest updates) worked again. Both video and audio playback ran normally again.
It may be an MPRIS or pulseaudio, or other gnome-shell media extension interaction with chrome or chromium 75. this link may have further answers. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=983203#c24 There really is a bug, so I do not understand why this bug report is invalid. The above web link tells you that there is a bug! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835623 Title: Google Chrome Linux version 75 freezes and then crashes when trying to play any video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1835623/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
