Google last night updated its Google Chrome browser for iOS, and owners of jailbroken iDevices quickly realized that the application closes a few seconds after opening. I told you today how you can solve the problem if you are fast, and those from Google have confirmed the fact that the navigation information sharing system is the source of the problem, but they claim that only jailbroken terminals are affected, the rest having no problems.
We have found a bug that affects jailbroken devices with crash reporting and metrics *disabled*. The fix will be in our next release (we can't say when that will be, please don't ask).
One workaround is to enable crash reporting. Open "Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Local State" and change the "reporting_enabled" flag to "true". That will enable reporting without needing to reinstall the app. Mind you, we haven't tested this ourselves. 🙂 If you do not wish to do this, or are not comfortable doing this, you'll need to wait for the next release. The other workaround is to uninstall and re-install and enable crash reporting, but you might lose data if you don't use sync.
For those who are hitting crashes with 3rd-party add-ons, this workaround is not sufficient and you will need to contact the 3rd-party developer directly and have them update their add-on to work with Chrome M25.
Apart from the fix recommended by me, there is another one that involves reinstalling the application, but not everyone has solved their problem this way, although Google recommends it to users. A new version of Google Chrome for iOS will be released soon, Google doesn't know exactly when, so you might have something to look forward to.
