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I'm a chrome user and an enthusiast but few days ago I made Ubuntu get some updates using Update Manager, then I turned off my notebook and when I restarted it, I tried to start Chrome which after a few seconds turned the screen completely black, and some errors appeared for few seconds and then I got logged off, and had to re-login, and when I opened Chrome again the same thing happened!

I've uninstalled it with Synaptic and did complete cleanings before re-installing Chrome but nothing succeeded. Now I can't use either Chromium and Chrome, but Firefox works. It's a very strange thing, never happened to me before and I don't know what to do because I had all my bookmarks syncronized in Chrome!

Please help if you can :)

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If your bookmarks are the only thing you are worried about, you can recover them from the terminal by running cp ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks* ~/. This will copy your Chrome bookmarks to your home folder directory.

You should sync Chrome through Google, it is one of the major selling points of chrome. http://www.guidingtech.com/3125/chrome-bookmarks-sync/

I also recommend you do the following: open the terminal and run Chrome. It will crash but give you an output of what may have happened. You can use the command

tail -f /var/log/syslog

to see what may have gone wrong.

My advice for you though is to make a new profile: Briefly, after backing up your data, open nautilus (home folder), press CtrlH to display hidden files, navigate to .config/ and delete both chromium and google-chrome folders and start Chrome over. A totally clean profile will be recreated automatically. Let us know what happened, so I can improve my answer.

The official version on creating a new profile in Chrome is here: Create a new browser user profile.

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Same thing happened to me, and I found the following user who was able to resolve the issue: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/xcKqyLSij5A/OGSpv2FaLZoJ

Could it be that in your case, as in mine and the above user's, you tried updating your NVIDIA drivers and something went wrong? If so a reinstall of the same driver might help.

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  • Yes, updating the nvidia driver fixed the crashes for me.
    – TigrisC
    Oct 1, 2012 at 8:43

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