[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#750689: chromium-browser: Strange and specific Chrome and Chromium problems, involving GNOME 3 as well

[Nikolay Shindarov]

Package: chromium-browser
Severity: normal

Today I opened Google Chrome and tried to play a video literaly seconds after
the system boot and GNOME was maybe still initially loading in background.
Then the whole system froze up for 2-3 seconds, then the video started playing
and evereything seemed fine.
However, I mentioned later that the video is out of sync between audio and
video. This was not like that befoe this event. To make sure, I tried opening
it with Iceweasel and it was really OK.
I reinstalled maybe 3 times Chrome after that, deleted all .cache and .config
folders, tried the video without being logged into Chrome - the result was the
same. I can also confirm that this video is the only one on youtube for me with
this problem so far, jsut it runs outr of sync with audio just on Chrome and
after this incident.

While I can live with that, something more annoying started to happen. On the
right panel of GNOME 3, where is the Chrome launcher, while Chrome is running,
when I click on the launcher, instead of switching the tab to Chrome and
opening the currently opened browser, it launches new Chrome browser on each
click. Whaty is even more concerning, after few reinstalls, this seemed ot be
fixed, but just after some time it just started to happen again "by no reason".
Currently it is OK as well however I am afraid something generally bad happened
after that incident.

I tried also the same with running the video from chromium, which is installed
from the Debian repos. The result was the same. I installed Chromium just for
the experiment and removed it after that so that's why my system does not
identify it and sends it version in the bug report.

Ideas?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash