Chrome version 36.0.1985.143 Ubuntu 14.04
After upgrading to 14.04 Google Chromes tabs crash. I'm not sure of the conditions on how to make them crash. But after idk a few hours or a day of using Chrome or after I restart Chrome I'll go to open a new tab and it just crashes. Even when it's just an empty tab.
It seems to do it maybe based on the amount of resources the page uses? For example if I try to open the Google play store site, the tab crashes (right now). If I go to just google.com the page works. I could open another site and it loads, but when I try to scroll down it crashes.
I have about 41 tabs open in 4 different windows. I've tried turning off all plug-ins and apps as the crash page suggests but with no luck.
I'm on a Dell Latitude E6530 8gb of ram. Only 40% of my ram is being used.
I uninstalled, deleted any files/folders left behind, then reinstalled Chrome as @klyn suggested. So far I have not had a crash.
Edit 08/09/2014: Nope I was wrong. It's still doing it. I have no idea what is happening. The page might partial load them bam, it crashes. I try to open an new tab, it crashes. And this is a new tab with nothing on it, Chrome's default tab page. The crash is the "Aw, snap!" crash. The page will sometimes load, then I scroll down and it crashes.
If I had to guess, it would have to do with the amount of tabs I have open.
I'll try @Matthew Greenlaw's solution and report back.
Looks like @Matthew Greenlaw's issue is the same one I'm having. Here's what came up in the error logs
[28578:28610:0913/140212:WARNING:shared_memory_posix.cc(386)] Shared memory creation failed; out of file descriptors
[28578:28610:0913/140212:ERROR:host_shared_bitmap_manager.cc(144)] Cannot create shared memory buffer
[28578:28613:0913/140212:WARNING:crash_handler_host_linux.cc(289)] Could not translate tid - assuming crashing thread is thread group leader; syscall_supported=0
[28578:28630:0913/140212:ERROR:crash_handler_host_linux.cc(371)] Failed to write crash dump for pid 28739
Cannot upload crash dump: failed to open
Failed to create temporary file in /tmp: cannot upload crash dump
I've upped my file limit to 4096. I'll report back in a couple weeks if the crash hasn't happened again, and mark @Matthew Greenlaw's answer as the answer.
@Matthew Greenlaw's fix worked. Still no issues.