The update to chrome 78 has also broken it for me. Running chrome starts a number of chrome processes, but no window appears and it hangs. Neither --disable-gpu, nor --disable-software-rasterizer worked.
As NeonCloud noted, sudo google-chrome-stable --no-sandbox allows Chrome to load and display, but it's far from ideal.
Unfortunately, I am unable to downgrade to version 77 as only 78 is available to download from Google. I have installed Chromium, which at the time of install was version 77, and I am able to use that for now.
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gromit commented on 2023-04-15 08:22 (UTC) (edited on 2023-05-08 21:42 (UTC) by gromit)
When reporting this package as outdated make sure there is indeed a new version for Linux Desktop. You can have a look at the "Stable updates" tag in Release blog for this.
You can also run this command to obtain the version string for the latest chrome version:
Do not report updates for ChromeOS, Android or other platforms stable versions as updates here.