[Chromium Version 50.0.2624.0 (64-bit)] uBlock Origin crashes on load

[the-bobo]

uBlock Origin 1.5.6 crashes as soon as it starts on Chromium. Any advice on how to debug/move forward? OS X 10.11.2.

All I did was install uBlock Origin from the Chrome Webstore, and whenever it tries to start I get a notification saying "uBlock Origin has crashed. Click this balloon to reload the extension."

Clicking just crashes again and shows another balloon.

[gorhill]

Never mind, read too quick.

"uBlock Origin has crashed" means the tab in which uBO was loaded has crashed (equivalent to "Aww snap" in normal tabs). This is a browser issue, report to Chromium devs. uBO is plain JS/HTML/CSS, it's not supposed to crash. If it does, there is something wrong browser-side.

Also, I will set a rule from now on to not report issues with uBO for Canary versions, only beta or official release: the issue is most likely in the browser, and it's way too much time-expensive to deal with these issues which are more than likely a browser issue given it's the dev build.

[the-bobo]

thanks, didn't realize i had grabbed a canary build

[lewisje]

The pre-built "Chromium" binaries you could download from Google (as opposed to "Google Chrome") are at the same level of stability as Canary; the difference is that there is no built-in Flash Player, MP4 codecs, or other non-free-software components.

There are, however, other Chromium-based browsers, many of which are based on older milestones than Chrome Stable, that you might wish to try out, if your reason for picking Chromium was that Chrome invades your privacy too much.