Rob Golding

Technology Consultant

Fixing Google Chrome’s 100% CPU Usage on Ubuntu

I've been battling with this issue for a couple of months now, ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 on my main desktop machine. Google Chrome would constantly max out one core, with no indication of what it was doing, or why.

Today, I finally solved the issue. It turns out that something to do with the m4 package was causing the error, with the following output:

MozPlugger: Error: Failed to execute m4.
Mozplugger: M4 parsing of config generated error

So, I checked out the package in question, and found that it wasn't installed. To my great relief (and some frustration), a simple

sudo apt-get install m4

fixed the problem instantly.

I only hope that this post solves this extremely annoying issue for someone else.

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  • Didn't work, turns out I already have the m4 package installed.
  • Ss
    Works nicw with me.
    I have Linux Mint 8
    Thanks alot
  • Jacobbb84
    I had the same problem, but the fix you propose didn't work for me. Finally I have tried to delete the configuration folder (~/.config/google-chrome) and now everything is ok!! I'm writing you since this is the first place I have found looking for some solution for this problem and I hope to help someone else!
    Bye
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