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$ curl -sSf https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages | \
     grep -A1 "Package: google-chrome-stable" | \
     awk '/Version/{print $2}' | \
     cut -d '-' -f1

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I've the same problem of @ms178. After the latest arch updates, Chromium -based browsers are slow to open up

It seems that the problem is kwallet, if you use the flag --password-store=basic the browser opens immediately

• https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504014

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305540

@admalledd Thanks, I've re-installed my system and got it to work until the KDE package upgrades from today broke Google Chrome and all related browsers again. They now take a very long time to start up:

[173978:173978:0511/192046.768251:ERROR:dbus/object_proxy.cc:590] Failed to call method: org.kde.KWallet.isEnabled: object_path= /modules/kwalletd6: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. [173978:173978:0511/192046.768311:ERROR:components/os_crypt/sync/kwallet_dbus.cc:117] Error contacting kwalletd6 (isEnabled) [173978:173978:0511/192046.768701:ERROR:dbus/object_proxy.cc:590] Failed to call method: org.kde.KLauncher.start_service_by_desktop_name: object_path= /KLauncher: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable [173978:173978:0511/192046.768721:ERROR:components/os_crypt/sync/kwallet_dbus.cc:86] Error contacting klauncher to start kwalletd6

@ms178 I was experiencing the same issue, but seems to have been solved by uninstalling then reinstalling this AUR package.

Small update to my post from 2025-04-01, every released version past 134.0.6998.165 from this repo does still crash on startup on my system. However, I don't see any crashes with a Chromium build from RobRich999 (AVX2) 137.0.7129.0 from his Github repo.

@cbrnr

I cannot enter special characters (e.g., backticks) in the current version. Does anyone else have this problem?

Yes. I think this is reported here: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/407944200

Edit: Issue has been fixed since 135.0.7049.79. However, at least on Gnome Wayland, it is still necessary to use --enable-features=WaylandTextInputV3.

Edit2: Since 135.0.7049.95, --enable-features=WaylandTextInputV3 is no longer needed.

On 135.0.7049.52-1 after restarting the browser, you need to authenticate with your Google account every time.

Same. It resets all cookies, and doesn't sync passwords. Do not update. In my case downgrading to the previous version from the yay cache helped (but need to log in everywhere again).

I cannot enter special characters (e.g., backticks) in the current version. Does anyone else have this problem?

On 135.0.7049.52-1 after restarting the browser, you need to authenticate with your Google account every time.

135.0.7049.52 crashes for me at startup on CachyOS with: %U --use-gl=angle --use-angle=vulkan --enable-features=Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE,VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiVideoEncoder --enable-accelerated-mjpeg-decode --enable-global-vaapi-lock --use-gpu-scheduler-dfs --cast-streaming-hardware-h264 --enable-zero-copy

Reverting back to 134.0.6998.165-1 solves the issue for me.

                                            Stack trace of thread 13433:
                                            #0  0x000057198b41add9 mi_free (libmimalloc.so.2 + 0x21add9)
                                            #1  0x000057196eb18798 n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x318798)
                                            #2  0x000057196eb1c4c0 _ZNK13QSystemLocale5queryENS_9QueryTypeEO8QVariant (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x31c4c0)
                                            #3  0x000057196ea1d74c n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x21d74c)
                                            #4  0x000057196ea1def5 _ZN7QLocaleC2Ev (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x21def5)
                                            #5  0x000057196e93986d _ZN9QResourceC1ERK7QStringRK7QLocale (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x13986d)
                                            #6  0x000057196e8e9d43 n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0xe9d43)
                                            #7  0x000057196e8ea07a n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0xea07a)
                                            #8  0x000057196e8eaf0a _ZN19QLibraryInfoPrivate5pathsEN12QLibraryInfo11LibraryPathENS_9UsageModeE (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0xeaf0a)
                                            #9  0x000057196e8ebc37 _ZN19QLibraryInfoPrivate4pathEN12QLibraryInfo11LibraryPathENS_9UsageModeE (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0xebc37)
                                            #10 0x000057196ec3366a n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x43366a)
                                            #11 0x000057196e92e015 _ZN16QLoggingCategoryC1EPKc9QtMsgType (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x12e015)
                                            #12 0x000057196f1a6215 n/a (libQt6Gui.so.6 + 0x1a6215)
                                            #13 0x000057196f1a93c5 _ZN15QHighDpiScaling18initHighDpiScalingEv (libQt6Gui.so.6 + 0x1a93c5)
                                            #14 0x000057196f194dcd _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate25createPlatformIntegrationEv (libQt6Gui.so.6 + 0x194dcd)
                                            #15 0x000057196f1970b8 _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate21createEventDispatcherEv (libQt6Gui.so.6 + 0x1970b8)
                                            #16 0x000057196e962a05 _ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate4initEv (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x162a05)
                                            #17 0x000057196f19715f _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate4initEv (libQt6Gui.so.6 + 0x19715f)
                                            #18 0x000057196faf9b2e _ZN19QApplicationPrivate4initEv (libQt6Widgets.so.6 + 0xf9b2e)
                                            #19 0x000057198fe5c0c7 n/a (libqt6_shim.so + 0x40c7)
                                            #20 0x000057198fe5dbe2 CreateQtInterface (libqt6_shim.so + 0x5be2)
                                            #21 0x00005719a0f237d3 n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0xc9757d3)
                                            #22 0x00005719a0f13ab5 n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0xc965ab5)
                                            #23 0x000057199a93eeaf n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x6390eaf)
                                            #24 0x000057199a93f767 n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x6391767)
                                            #25 0x0000571999f26f0a n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x5978f0a)
                                            #26 0x000057199ae2d241 n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x687f241)
                                            #27 0x000057199ae2dd6f n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x687fd6f)
                                            #28 0x0000571997fa6010 n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x39f8010)
                                            #29 0x00005719995d6b7c n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x5028b7c)
                                            #30 0x00005719991ac9f7 n/a (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x4bfe9f7)
                                            #31 0x00005719991ad327 ChromeMain (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x4bff327)
                                            #32 0x000057198ba26f87 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x26f87)
                                            #33 0x000057198ba27037 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27037)
                                            #34 0x000057199b49c68a _start (/opt/google/chrome/chrome + 0x6eee68a)

I've been experiencing Google Chrome continuously crashing (after a few minutes, but sometimes after a few seconds) in KDE Plasma (I'm pretty sure it works in Gnome), both in Wayland and in X11. This is what is shown running Chrome from the command line when it crashes:

[0313/150631.952661:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/150631.959022:ERROR:process_memory_range.cc(75)] read out of range
[1]    6358 trace trap (core dumped)  google-chrome-stable