So one day after I upgraded Chrome for my old Ubuntu 14.04 machine and I could not launch the browser. Well, if I do ps aux | grep chrome I can still find the process running but I could not see anything. A browser that is not viewable is not a browser anymore and not useful at all. The process is indeed running – so it must be the display problem.

So after a bit of Googling I find this thread in Google group. So I think the window is off the screen for some reason – maybe because I had two monitors before and now I only have the main monitor left? Not sure. So after reading Google group thread and went to the extensive list of Chrome commands.

So I launched the browser in terminal with google-chrome --window-position=100,100 and the window is back again. Then I dragged it and placed in the right position.

There are other options to explore on that article as well – list of Chrome commands