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Thanks for guidance.

Went back for one more spin on the HTPC. Did the following: Booted into Ubuntu 13.10. Booted Chrome from desktop. Navigated to Vimeo and video played fine. Paused video and Alt-F4 out to desktop. Started XBMC, went to Programs, Chrome Launcher, and picked Vimeo. It went to web site, I briefly (1/2 sec) saw editors picks and then it tried to launch a video. I get a full white screen for 1/2 sec and then full black screen with no sound. If I ALT-F4 out I go back to XBMC but XBMC crashes back to the Ubuntu desktop.

It seems like there is an XBMC setting that is in the way or one of the parameters that are being passed to Chrome. Just to tease me I guess, I have another desktop PC running Ubuntu 13..10 and Vimeo and NetflixBMC work fine. The only (non-hardware) difference between it and my HTPC is that the desktop has a nightly build of XBMC so its Gotham rather than Frodo.

I'll try removing some of the parameters.

Thanks for troubleshooting!
Sounds really strange. I don't think it's related to the XBMC version, sounds more like a problem with your GPU drivers. But who knows...

EDIT: You mentioned that it's working fine without XBMC running in the background. So it's maybe really related to XBMC...
The only setting (i know) that might influence it: System->System->Video output-> "Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen".