I also found a workaround: just turn off "View - Atmosphere". Then Google Earth seems stable even while rendering many 3D buildings! See 3 comments above for some specs of my systems.
Without any success I tried GE 5.0 and 4.3, the latest drivers from xorg-edgers and different values in xorg.conf (I tried different values for AccelMethod, AccelDFS, EnablePageFlip, ColorTiling and FBTexPercent). -- Google Earth crashes system in 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369567 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs