Google Chrome 44.0.2403.89-1 crashes Ubuntu

normal user prompt I typed

google-chrome --disable-gpu

it worked and context menu showing up normal. Also under system chrome settings uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available option

SOLVED: During the upgrade apparently the X Server configuration (X.Org) was changed to the nouveau driver. Just change it to proprietary controller and Google Chrome stopped giving problems ... Thank you all for your responses. Regards.

Had the same issue as the original poster. Here's what I did:

• Copy-pasted my google-chrome directory in /home/[username]/.config/google-chrome, just in case.
• Removed Google Chrome stable via Synaptic.
• Downloaded the previous version of Google Chrome from http://mirror.pcbeta.com/google/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/ and installed via Ubuntu Software Center.

Have not had an issue since. Alternatively, I've seen some recommendations in situations like this to remove the stable package via Apt/Synaptic, purge the .config folder and then install it as if it were new. Either way, it's a lot of new log-ins and verification codes (if you have two-step verification) regardless.

So far so good for me. I hope this works for you.

A temporary fix that that seems to have worked for me is running the following from the command line:

chrome-stable --disable-gpu

Note that you can't disable hardware acceleration using chrome://flags in the url bar, as it will crash once you do that!