browser freezes completely

[Dejan Jovanović]

Starting chromium-browser and entering the following URL completely freezes the whole browser (not only a tab):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zotero-connector/ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc

The browser output includes the following suspicious line:

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The process that takes up 100% of the CPU is:

chromium-browser --type=gpu-process --channel=12010.2.405749741 --gpu-vendor-id=0x10de --gpu-device-id=0x00cd --gpu-driver-vendor=NVIDIA --gpu-driver-version=304.

The graphics card I am using:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV41 [Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation wx4300 Workstation
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at fd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fea00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia_current, nouveau, nvidiafb

Additional ubuntu information:

dpkg -l | grep chromium:

ii chromium-browser 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 i386 Chromium browser
ii chromium-browser-l10n 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 all chromium-browser language packages
ii chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 i386 Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser

lsb_release -rd:

Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

chromium-browser:
  Installed: 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/archive/ quantal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Closing due to this bug being 5 years old. Please file a new bug if this still applies to recent releases of chromium-browser.