Google Chrome cursor and text selection issues after upgrading to google-chrome-stable_41.0.2272.76-1_amd64

I upgraded from google-chrome-stable_40.0.2214.95-1_amd64 to google-chrome-stable_41.0.2272.76-1_amd64 (automatic update on Ubuntu MATE 14.04 64 bit) and the mouse text selection stopped working and the cursor icons did not change when hovering over links in the updated browser, also got an annoying 'Enter you password to unlock login keyring' prompt when Chrome started.

To eliminate the distro from the mix I also upgraded Google Chrome on Xubuntu 14.04 64-bit from Google Chrome 39.0.2171.95-1 to 41.0.2272.76-1 and ran into the same problem.

I tried reinstalling the browser:

 sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome wget sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

But the problem still persisted so I downgraded back to the previous version, this worked, the problems dishappeared:

 sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_40.0.2214.95-1_amd64.deb

Older versions of Google Chrome can be downloaded from

See also:

• how do I downgrade google chrome?

3 Answers

Have you tried the workaround?

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop ~/google-chrome.desktop.bak~
sudo sed -i 's/\/usr\/bin\/google\-chrome\-stable/\/usr\/bin\/google\-chrome\-stable \-\-touch\-devices=123/g' /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

If this workaround causes problems, use this command to uninstall:

sudo cp ~/google-chrome.desktop.bak~ /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

Source:

For me i had to disable hardware acceleration from chrome advanced settings. Debian jessie + mate desktop. Not sure if the --touch-devices=123 was required in my case.

The very same problem which made me to shift on to firefox. It's good but google guys have fixed the problem. You can try instead the latest version available for firefox as it's far more impressive than Chrome.