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  1. Bug #546871
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 546871

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Jan (jan-timo-henrich-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: System freeze induced by Chrome while using ath5k

Some more details:

1.) Chrome induce a crash on a thinkpad R51 (ath5k) lucid 32-bit, but not on a sony vaio VGN TZ31 lucid 64-bit.

2.) Chrome is not inducing a crash, as long as I
     (a.) don't sync the bookmarks, etc. To try this
     remove /home/username/.config/Google and /home/username/.config/google-chrome
     launch chrome
     set up chrome, but do _not_ sync your bookmarks, etc (Set Up Sync...)

     (b.) prevent ubuntu to switch into the screensaver mode /locked screen with chrome running in the back.

related links:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1470623
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=7493a9fc196ea8be&hl=en