Google Chrome fails to start

Correct the ownership, assuming pipi is your username:

chown -R pipi:pipi /home/pipi

and the permissions for all folders:

find /home/pipi -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 775

775 - These are the default permissions when you create a new folder.

A lot of people have said that removing ~/.gtkrc-2.0 would do the trick. And sometimes permission would be the culprit. I had the same problem but neither helped! Uninstalling and installing chrome also doesn't help.

Turns out, when Chrome crashes sometimes the User Data Directory can get corrupted. So to fix it I did the following:

1. Uninstall chrome apt-get purge google-chrome-stable
2. Install chrome http://chrome.google.com
3. Remove the cache and configuration folders. rm -rf /home/<<your username>>/.config/google-chrome/ and rm -rf /home/<<your username>>/.cache/google-chrome/
4. Start Chrome and enjoy!