Google Chrome now requires at least kernel v. 3.17

... according to this thread as they added a new sandboxing flag called TSYNC used by seccomp. And indeed, I'm seeing this flag in chrome://sandbox/ in v. 41.

Needless to say, that I'm not having any problems on Arch Linux. But what about other distros with older kernels? Is Chrome really no longer supported?

Please share your experiences.

EDIT: There is a patch for Ubuntu.
EDIT2: More info on Phoronix.

 

Is this TSYNC some sort of additional sandboxing to enforce Chrome security even more? I'm using 3.14 kernel in Arch so no support in my case.

 

Ubuntu 14.04 and up appear to be fine.

 

There is this explanation by Kees Cook. As far as I understand it improves seccomp by facilitating the synchronization of different seccomp threads.

 

Yes, that's because of the patch mentioned above in which tsync was backported from kernel 3.17.

 

Thanks, tlu!

 

The whole story was a nuisance alarm (to a large extent, at least).