#1139893 chromium: Stuck loading pages: new_tab_ui.cc:54 Requested load of chrome://newtab/ for incorrect profile type.

Package:
chromium
Source:
chromium
Description:
web browser
Submitter:
Benoit Panizzon
Date:
2026-06-13 18:33:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1139893#5
Date:
2026-06-13 06:31:58 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Latest security update seems to break Chromium on my System.

Attempted the usual --disable-gpu and --disable-sandbox

Getting:
ERROR:chrome/browser/ui/webui/ntp/new_tab_ui.cc:54] Requested load of chrome://newtab/ for incorrect profile type.

And all taps are stuck loading forever.
tcpdump shows traffic on port 80 and 443

Firefox works fine.

#1139893#10
Date:
2026-06-13 07:26:19 UTC
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Thanks for the report. What was the previous working version of chromium
for you?

#1139893#15
Date:
2026-06-13 18:23:18 UTC
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Hi Andres

Yesterday's Version :-) (Actually I'm not sure). I used my notebook
yesterday (11. June), no issue with Chromium, updated today and had the
described issue. That error showed up for every tab I either tried to
reload or opened newly.

But I guess something in my chromium profile got corrupted or could
not be understood by the affected chromium version.

While deleting the cache and cookies stuff, chromium crashed and when I
started again, it worked as expected. So the issue is gone now.

#1139893#20
Date:
2026-06-13 18:31:10 UTC
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Your apt logs (/var/log/apt/history.log) should show you what version
you updated from when you installed .102~deb13u1. It's helpful to know
whether what you saw was a regression in the v149 series itself (a much
easier thing to track down), or something related to the upgrade from
v148 -> v149.

Could be! I was also going to ask you to try .114~deb13u1, which I just
released, but since it already went away...

Glad to hear it. I'll leave this bug open for a bit in case anyone else
experiences the same thing.

Thanks!