Chrome shuts down unexpectedly when accessing finder such as when I upload pictures to Shutterfly.

It appears that almost every time I try to upload a picture from my finder into Shutterfly, or post one on Facebook my Chrome browser shuts down unexpectedly. I have scanned for virus (none), I have cleared my cashe and cookies and all that, I have rebooted and have checked for updates... Nothing is working. I get the following information in an error report, which is like foreign language to me.
Process:               Google Chrome [965]
Path:                  /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Identifier:            com.google.Chrome
Version:               39.0.2171.71 (2171.71)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Google Chrome [965]
User ID:               501
Date/Time:             2014-12-06 20:26:07.742 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        6940E79A-A757-975F-48E9-EB382A6AF946
Time Awake Since Boot: 1000 seconds
Crashed Thread:        0 CrBrowserMain Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000000b8

I've trouble shot the RAM pretty thoroughly. I have bought two 1 Gig chips, each from a different source. Each of the third party chips will run the computer all day long in the main slot, as will the Apple 1 gig chip. I can do heavy intensive work with only 1 gig and never have a problem.
I have also run memory tests on all three and they all pass with flying colors. Certainly it might be reasonable to try an apple RAM next, but at Twice the price, I'm slow to go that route. Both of the third party chips appear to be in good shape. They all are DDR2 PC5300 667Ghz. Both of the chips were procured from stores that I have used for 20 years and are well known to be high quality brands.
My thought is that there may be a problem with the upper RAM slot connector. Does anyone know if you can start the machine with RAM only in that slot? I might try that as another troubleshooting effort.

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