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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by smtddr on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:09PM (#8743017)
On my Linux MINT machine, chrome keeps doing something[1] that ends up locking up my whole machine and I have to hard-reboot. It got to a point where I actually had to set up Ctrl+Alt+K to issue "pkill -9 chrome" so as soon as I see the mouse-pointer movement become non-smooth or music start to skip, I slam on those keys to kill chrome before I have to restart my whole machine. Then I just went to Firefox developer edition[2]. Is it better? I dunno, but I like its cool dark theme, my system hasn't locked up since and now I got all those cool extensions back again.

1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2203672

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Developer_Editio...

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by kcorbitt on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:57PM (#8743215)
I had that problem with Linux Mint on some configurations too. I found that by going into chrome://flags/ and disabling everything related to GPU acceleration the crashes went away. YMMV, of course.
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by Mikeb85 on Friday December 12, 2014 @06:38PM (#8743363)
Hate to say it, but Linux Mint is a buggy mess.

Chrome works fine on the vast majority of Linux distros. Even if a page hangs, Chrome doesn't crash...

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by barbs on Friday December 12, 2014 @10:08PM (#8743969)
I'm running Linux Mint and I don't have this problem. Chrome runs pretty well for me.
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by 674266966223478 on Saturday December 13, 2014 @12:05AM (#8744234)
How is that relevant? It doesn't matter if it works for you. It doesn't work for somebody else, which means there is a problem of some sort.
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by barbs on Saturday December 13, 2014 @02:07AM (#8744490)
The discussion is about Google Chrome not working on Linux Mint. I said that Google Chrome works for me on Linux Mint. How is that not relevant?

I'm not saying there's no problem, I'm just offering my experience to demonstrate that perhaps the problem isn't just "Chrome runs poorly on Linux Mint", and to offer a counterexample to "Linux Mint is a buggy mess".

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