Try 2 - Change how ui::Clipboard is accessed so there's only one per thread.

content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc

Index: content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc
diff --git a/content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc b/content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc
index 51552b6fd9868d6d94a1f8127b2a58b3876919f9..9a2f9b895a1a26bb64509ae5c935f2646c3db914 100644
--- a/content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc
+++ b/content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include "net/base/ssl_config_service.h"
 #include "net/socket/client_socket_factory.h"
 #include "net/socket/tcp_client_socket.h"
+#include "ui/base/clipboard/clipboard.h"
 
 #if defined(USE_AURA)
 #include "content/browser/renderer_host/image_transport_factory.h"
@@ -236,6 +237,7 @@ BrowserMainLoop::BrowserMainLoop(const content::MainFunctionParams& parameters)
 
 BrowserMainLoop::~BrowserMainLoop() {
   DCHECK_EQ(this, g_current_browser_main_loop);
+  ui::Clipboard::DestroyClipboardForCurrentThread();
   g_current_browser_main_loop = NULL;
 }
 
@@ -472,6 +474,18 @@ void BrowserMainLoop::CreateThreads() {
   // Do not allow disk IO from the UI thread.
   base::ThreadRestrictions::SetIOAllowed(false);
   base::ThreadRestrictions::DisallowWaiting();
+
+  // Alert the clipboard class to which threads are allowed to access the

[jam, 2012/09/10 22:44:19]

please move this to BrowserThreadsStarted since this function should be just to
start the threads

+  // clipboard:
+  std::vector<base::PlatformThreadId> allowed_clipboard_threads;
+  // The current thread is the UI thread.
+  allowed_clipboard_threads.push_back(base::PlatformThread::CurrentId());
+#if defined(OS_WIN)
+  // On Windows, clipboards are also used on the File or IO threads.
+  allowed_clipboard_threads.push_back(file_thread_->thread_id());
+  allowed_clipboard_threads.push_back(io_thread_->thread_id());
+#endif
+  ui::Clipboard::SetAllowedThreads(allowed_clipboard_threads);
 }
 
 void BrowserMainLoop::RunMainMessageLoopParts() {