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After the update to "Google Chrome 20.0.1132.47" google-chrome started to lag. It gets stuck for couple of seconds and then it resumes. The issue seems to start after I enter any flash site

Running google-chrome from terminal results in following errors:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:980:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:623:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to initialize slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:980:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:623:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to initialize slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:980:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:623:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to initialize slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:980:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:623:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to initialize slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:980:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:623:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to initialize slave
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:980:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params
ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:623:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to initialize slave

Firefox does not have any problem. Can you suggest a workaround to get Google Chrome to work as it previously did?

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    There is a feeling that the new Pepper Flash is causing problems for some users of Chrome 20. The suggestion is to start Chrome with the following switch: --disable-bundled-ppapi-flash. You can look at this thread for more and this bug page.
    – user25656
    Jun 30, 2012 at 15:08
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    Could someone comment why this is off-topic? Seems perfectly reasonable to ask here, as it's a "real" problem that someone is having, not opinion-based, and is for Ubuntu not a competing flavor.
    – Ed Griebel
    Sep 11, 2012 at 14:50
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    I found this to be on-topic.
    – Bryce
    Oct 5, 2012 at 19:38
  • An explanation for why this widely-approved question is off-topic would be especially appropriate now that it has at least one delete vote. We should not delete a question if the reason it was closed is still not clear to the community. "Running third-party applications on Ubuntu" is explicitly on-topic in the FAQ. Oct 10, 2012 at 14:59

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I'm having the same problem when using the Chrome version of Flash Player. Temporary workaround:

  1. Install the adobe-flashplugin package
  2. In Chrome, go to: chrome://plugins/
  3. Disable the /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so instance of Flash Player
  4. Restart Chrome
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