By the looks of it you need to actually pass drawImage an image object like so
var canvas = document.getElementById("c");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var image = new Image();
image.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(image, 0, 0);
};
image.src = "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAIAAAACDbGyAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB9oMCRUiMrIBQVkAAAAZdEVYdENvbW1lbnQAQ3JlYXRlZCB3aXRoIEdJTVBXgQ4XAAAADElEQVQI12NgoC4AAABQAAEiE+h1AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC";
<canvas id="c"></canvas>
I’ve tried it in chrome and it works fine.