I’m using Google Chrome on my dear netbook, running Ubuntu 10.04. Since yesterday after an abnormal shutdown, I was getting the message “Your profile could not be opened correctly” yada yada.

I tried some rm – cp stuff, suggested elsewhere, but it didn’t work. In the end, I opened ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/ and I deleted every file related to “History” while having Google Chrome closed, i.e. every file starting with “history”. I re-opened the browser and I got rid of that dreadful message.