Looks like Chromium 35 introduced the requirement of SSE2 instructions
which aren't supported on our older Athlon CPUs.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750361
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=348761

Arch Linux even has extra packages without an sse2 dependency.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-no-sse2/

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #750361
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750361

** Bug watch added: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues #348761
   http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=348761

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  Chromium 36 upgrade will not execute

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