Chromium randomly crashes when I download a PDF

[Thijs van Dijk]

When I click a link in chromium that would download a PDF, about 95% of the time it works just fine (the file shows up in my download shelf; I can click to open it in evince), but for that last 5%, clicking the link crashes my browser entirely. (Every tab/window.)

After restarting the browser, retrying the exact same link usually works.

I'm currently using Chromium 36 on ubuntu 14.04, but this issue has been present for quite a while now. I've installed the debug symbols for chromium, and will update with a stack trace if I get one.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time. Your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

It would help us a lot if you could test on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once in a terminal:

apport-collect 1353355

and add any additional information that you think relevant. Alternatively, please confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the report. If we do not hear from you the bug report will close itself in approximately two months time.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.

[Thijs van Dijk (ametheus-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Paul,

Somewhere between switching to Chromium 50+, then to Firefox, then Arch Linux this issue got fixed. I could run a bisection search on my setup, but I don't think that will add anything for you. Thanks for checking in though.

Is there any way I can mark this bug as "expired" quicker than waiting 59 days for the janitor to pick it up?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for chromium-browser (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]