Comment 9 for bug 972285

Same as Mark Hewitt on #7.
Sadly, Luis Henriques (henrix) solution on #8 doesn't work.

For me 3.0.0-18-generic causes segfault to Chrome, but also Firefox ans Skype crashes during a call.

Thoose are my Firefox reports:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-d1157d99-07c0-4abe-bdf4-629372120403
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/c3bbd556-ed7f-4274-82a2-15c7e2120403
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/4457e4ed-a49c-426d-a6dd-2dd8b2120403
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-43c76bed-764b-44fa-a9c4-a42d82120403

And thoose are some messages from kern.log:
Apr 4 00:10:57 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 177.297310] chrome[3102] general protection ip:d18416 sp:bffb8860 error:0
Apr 4 00:10:57 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 177.459305] chrome[3371]: segfault at 0 ip b54d1774 sp bf89de90 error 4 in chrome[b3e3a000+398d000]
Apr 4 00:18:08 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 608.100879] Chrome_SyncThre[3809] general protection ip:2cfde6 sp:a47aad8c error:0 in libpthread-2.13.so[2c7000+17000]
Apr 4 00:18:38 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 638.312421] chrome[3815] general protection ip:25f416 sp:bfa2f760 error:0
Apr 4 00:18:47 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 647.532114] chrome[3873] general protection ip:467416 sp:adbf1868 error:0
Apr 4 00:19:58 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 718.114464] Chrome_IOThread[3956] general protection ip:784416 sp:ae973e58 error:0
Apr 4 00:20:44 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 764.726972] gnome-settings-[2729] general protection ip:73bf22 sp:bfcb59c0 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0[6f9000+f7000]
Apr 4 00:27:52 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 1192.493907] chrome[4310] general protection ip:42f416 sp:bfc0ffd4 error:0
Apr 4 00:30:43 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 1364.000340] apport-gtk[4501] general protection ip:839284 sp:bfd3fe1c error:0 in libc-2.13.so[76d000+178000]
Apr 4 00:36:47 ubu-giulio kernel: [ 1728.000192] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 20113 nsec

Hope that helps.