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crashed my entire PC on chrome, mint-linux 64bit

edit - likely a webgl problem that I've brought upon myself by disabling the gpu-blacklist

Working perfectly with Version 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 12.10 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.12.10.1)

but i got directed to this page: http://chrome.com/maze/pc/not-supported/ on Ubuntu 12.10 Chrome Version 25.0.1364.172

It depends on your video card and drivers whether WebGL will be automatically enabled / supported. I had to go to chrome://flags and enable the

Override software rendering list Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android Overrides the built-in software rendering list and enables GPU-acceleration on unsupported system configurations.

Option to get WebGL enabled by default

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