I'm experiencing some problems using Chromium on Ubuntu in VirtualBox : while Firefox works perfectly, Chromium will... Behave strangely, not being able to use the features provided by some websites like Facebook, Google+ or even GoogleSupport. I have to say that I tried on my desktop where Ubuntu is in dualboot with Windows and it works perfectly, I guess it's a problem from VirtualBox.
Description (example)
For example, on Facebook when I click on a picture, it will show up in a box where you can comment, like, identify people and so on.
Up to this, everything works perfectly, but if I try to click on something the page doesn't respond anymore, freezing on that picture. The title written in the tab and the address both say that I'm not on the picture anymore but the page won't change. When I change to another tab and then come back to the one I'm experiencing problems, the whole page displays a black screen BUT the cursor becomes this cute little hand, detecting the links.
There is another strange thing : when experiencing this problem the only way to get out of the page is to close the tab or to move to another tab within Chromium. When I tried to switch to another software while being on the guilty page in Chromium, the page stays on foreground, hiding the other software.
What I tried
I looked for answered questions like mine before posting on askubuntu(dot)com and virtualbox(dot)org (cannot post links, sorry) but nothing worked.
I tried to uninstall Chromium, then uninstall Virtualbox guest additions, then reinstall both but it wasn't better. Adding resources to the VM neither didn't do anything.
Technical context
I use a laptop with Windows 7 emulating Ubuntu 13.04 via Virtualbox (the VM has more resources than it needs).
Windows, Ubuntu, Chromium and Virtualbox are all up to date :
- Chromium : Version 28.0.1500.71
- Ubuntu : 13.04 (all packages up to date)
- Windows 7 : Nothing showed in Windows Update
- Virtualbox & guest additions : Version 4.2.18 r88780
Here's the result of sudo lshw -c video :
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*-display NON-RÉCLAMÉ
description: VGA compatible controller
produit: VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
fabriquant: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
identifiant matériel: 2
information bus: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 00
bits: 32 bits
horloge: 33MHz
fonctionnalités: vga_controller bus_master
configuration: latency=0
ressources: mémoire:e0000000-e7ffffff
By the way, the fact of non allowing posting links for new members is comprehensible but it shouldn't be done by stricly forbidding the three letters U, R and L even in words like c*rl...