Ubuntu – Google Chrome 44.0.2403.89-1 crashes Ubuntu

It might be that the newer version of Chrome simply does not like your GPU. I have had issues similar to yours and have solved them by turning off the compositing and 3d acceleration features.

Type chrome://flags into the address bar and set the following items:

GPU compositing on all pages: Disabled (Three options in a drop-down.)

Disable accelerated 2D canvas: Enable (Click the link that says 'Enable', the box will turn white.)

Disable accelerated CSS animations: Enable (Like above, the item will turn white.)

Then click the button that shows up at the bottom of the page Relaunch now to restart chrome and test if this worked.

As a practical method, I suggest you remove Google Chrome which is causing problems and use Chromium instead.

It's simply "the open-source project behind the Google Chrome browser" with the same features minus Google's branding, the built-in PDF viewer, the built-in Flash Player and access to some user data.

As explained here: www.webupd8.org/2012/09/new-chromium-stable-and-development.html

You can add the stable PPA and install Chromium using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:a-v-shkop/chromium
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Or, if you want the latest dev builds, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:a-v-shkop/chromium-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Only if you still experience similer problems persist, you might need to go into some more technical stuff.