Chromium not remembering all tabs and running slow

[Bernmeister]

I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit and Chromium 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972). I've noticed a few problems...

1) Despite having the setting "Continue where you left off" checked, only some of the tabs are reopened when I start up Chromium. I typically have about 10 tabs open when I close Chromium so I can't see that being some limit - hasn't been a problem in the past.

2) If I right click a link and open in a new window, that window can take up to a minute to load the page and once loaded, runs sluggishly (scrolling is slow or if a YouTube video, runs as though I've got poor bandwidth).

I've removed Chromium (apt-get purge) and then also removed the directories ~/.cache/chromium and ~/.config/chromium and then did a reinstall of Chromium but to no avail. Interestingly after running what should be a clean Chromium, I hit CTRL + H and all my browser history was there...

FWIW, I also tried changing video drivers - switching from Nouveau to Nvidia (all three versions which available to me) and the problem persists.

I finally decided to reinstall 14.04 and the problem returns.

I've got the pepper flash plugin installed so I don't know if that has something to do with this, although this is the first time I've (knowingly) installed this plugin. I've never had this problem on 13.10 with Chromium and have had no problems with Firefox. I also have the webmail ad blocker plugin installed but that's never given me trouble in the past either.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: chromium-browser 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Apr 22 09:29:55 2014
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
DetectedPlugins:

Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-20 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-04-21T09:10:03.078925

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mario S. (sm666)]

hi again in this duplicate.... pinned tabs are affected much more often / with a higher probability. I managed to loose smthg like "only" 1 or 2 tabs in a few days, and today I pinned two tabs and both of them were lost after the next restart.

so please help!

thankx

Mario S.

[ggomez (g-gomez-sena)]

I noticed that new version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972) updated today in my Ubuntu also lost some tabs on startup.
I have 23 open tabs.

Thanks
Gabriel

[Martin Bodlák (martin-bodlak)]

The duplicate bug has HIGH importance and assigned developer. Why not this one? I think this one is the "main" bug for all duplicates so I would expect this would be a HIGH importance task. This bug is really annoying. Now I don't even close my browser, I just put my laptop to sleep mode :)

And BTW, it seems that when Chromium crashes, all tabs are reopened upon browser restart.
I suppose this info can help.

[Moritz Hassert (mhassert)]

Since some time ago I loose all of my 3 pinned tabs every morning while my ~20 "normal" tabs never have disappeared.

Btw: My workaround at the moment is the add-on "session buddy". It auto saves my tab session in the evening and I manually restore them every morning.