Chrome-canary & chrome-beta failure

  1. You never mentioned “what you are doing” when there is a “chrome failure”.
    Does Chrome crash when starting it?
    Does crash only happen when you visit a specific website?
    Does it “hang” (unresponsive) instead of an actual crash?
    Something else?

  2. Unfortunately, the error output is not informative (appears to be in an [endless] loop). Might see more informative info by starting Chrome at the command line.

  3. More than one reinstall is over-doing it. Same for reboots. Reboots can be avoided by simply logging out of your user account and log in again.

  4. What happens if you login using “Plasma X11” instead of “Plasma wayland”? Does it still crash?

Another quick troubleshooting step is to: create a new user account (that you’ve never used before), log out of your normal user account, log in as the new user, fire up Chrome … still experience the crash?

I used to run TW a long time ago - I’m now on Leap.
I always experienced an issue running Chrome on TW, after doing a “zypper dup”: Chrome would either not start, or website rendering would be corrupted. (and not just me, but many folks using Chrome-based browsers).

The issue was that Chrome’s GPUCache sub-directory would somehow get corrupted (always after a “dup”) … the fix was easy - simply delete the content of GPUCache sub-dir. I ended up creating a script to clear it out. Since moving to Leap, I’ve never had a GPUCache issue for all 3 versions of Chrome and Brave.

Here’s one old post where I describe the issue and how to fix it … not saying the GPUCache issue is your issue, but worth checking out - only takes a couple of minutes to test. Lot’s of folks on TW w/Chrome have experienced this GPUCache issue.