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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1353185 Title: Chromium 36 upgrade will not execute To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1353185/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs