Chromium crashes or freezes often

[LLiebermann]

I have Chromium installed on Tumbleweed with zypper from the main repository:

$ zypper info chromium
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package chromium:
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Repository     : Main Repository (OSS)
Name           : chromium
Version        : 126.0.6478.182-1.1
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : openSUSE
Installed Size : 451.3 MiB
Installed      : Yes
Status         : up-to-date
Source package : chromium-126.0.6478.182-1.1.src
Upstream URL   : https://www.chromium.org/
Summary        : Google's open source browser project
Description    : 
    Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. We invite you to join us in our effort to help build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to
    experience the web, and to create a powerful platform for developing a new generation of web applications.

It freezes or crashes from time to time. In the past when I had issues with chromium, I solved them by deleting the cache or (if that didn’t help) the entire config directory, but the last few weeks this didn’t solve the crashes and freezes.

How can I troubleshoot the problem? I tried running chromium -v, but I don’t know what to look out for.

Thank you for your help!

[hui]

There are alredy some threads and even a bug report:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227739

Tumbleweed chromium crashes

I updated to Version 126.0.6478.126 (openSUSE Build) stable (64-bit) yesterday with the normal Tumbleweed upgrade, and this version seems very buggy. Even the settings tag crashes with SIGSEGV. I deleted my cache (from chromium interface) and the GPUCache (manually) folders, as this has previously helped, but there’s no improvement. Is this expected or are there other settings I need to clean out? I know chromium has lately been unstable.

Restarting Chromium post-upgrade

I do all my zypper ups with all web browsers closed, usually either first exiting X before zypper up, or restarting X afterward, when the up did not include new kernel or other reason to restart the entire OS. All my browser profiles are configured to pickup where left off. I did such a procedure today, and Chromium was upgraded from 125.0.6422.141-bp155.2.91.1 to 126.0.6478.182-bp155.2.99.1. Its existing tabs for my two webmail tabs and for the 8 forums tabs passively object to loading the con…

[Tuner]

I was grateful to discover Felix Miata’s tip on rolling back to Chromium 125 in Tumbleweed (near the bottom of the thread):

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/thread/HVWH7V6GGM62DLFP37LUG77ELZ3TQMMI/#VEUHHTPBTIMHABVY6KDTFCUUKK63VIJI

126 was almost unusable.

[hui]

This is one of the worst tips ever if you have a basic understanding of security.

Chromium 125 is 7 versions behind the actual one and has 67! unfixed CVEs!

It is better to use another alternative browser in the meantime or at least use the chromium flatpak.

[Tuner]

Yikes! I didn’t know. My bad.