Problems with Chrome/Chromium/Iron

[xircon]

LMDE tracking sid.

All Chromium based browsers are grinding my system to a halt, Firefox is OK - any one else seeing this?

Steve

[mockturtl]

I saw it in recent 18.x releases in wheezy, when I had a lot of tabs open and had been browsing for a while.

It seems to have cleared up with the latest dev build (19.0).

[xircon]

Have installed, will let you know,

Cheers

Steve

[craigevil]

No issues with the stable Chrome release.


$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
Installed: 17.0.963.56-r121963
Candidate: 17.0.963.56-r121963
Version table:
*** 17.0.963.56-r121963 0
500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[mockturtl]

I don't think it will matter, but when I said "wheezy" up there, I meant UP3.

[xircon]

It is was working fine. Upgrade to the new stable 17.nn.nnn.nn, that is when my machine really started to lock up, high disk usage, totally unusable, couldn't do anything. Dropped back to 16.0.912.75, recreated the hidden folder in my ~/home. Ran a bit better, but still locks up.

So far the unstable 19.0.1041.0 dev has only locked up once.

Firefox is fine, it was my browser of choice until early 2009, but I am so used to chrome/chromium based browsers, I was shocked how much I didn't like it anymore! I have become a Google borg

[mockturtl]

If your desktop's not completely frozen, shift+esc will bring up Chrome's task manager, so you can see if a particular tab or extension (process) is chewing up your resources.

[xircon]

Cheers, but the machine is totally unusable when it happens. New problem with the dev build, if the screensaver kicks in, chrome goes full screen and the only way to get out of it is to kill it (F11 does not work).

Don't know if this is cinnamon related, will boot into Gnome3 later on to test.

Steve

[JustinGordon]

Cheers, but the machine is totally unusable when it happens. New problem with the dev build, if the screensaver kicks in, chrome goes full screen and the only way to get out of it is to kill it (F11 does not work).
Don't know if this is cinnamon related, will boot into Gnome3 later on to test.
Steve

Probably not cinnamon related as I'm seeing this with the default Gnome 3. Very annoying. Only way I can get out of it is to close all tabs on the maximized window. You can't even detach the tabs.

[xircon]

Grrrrr now firefox is playing up. Cannot scroll pages. Oh well Opera then.

Edit - Dropped back to FF11, working again, but sometimes pages are not displaying, will grab a screenshot when it happens again, because the page is "there" just not displaying - weird.

[xircon]

Potential fix from the Debian forum (don't know how I missed this - doh, but have been working a lot of shifts ):
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... me#p433871

Which references:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr ... =libcairo2

Downgrade libcairo2 - Working well at the moment, I have rejoined the Google Borg.

[craigevil]

$ apt-cache policy libcairo2
libcairo2:
Installed: 1.12.2-2
Candidate: 1.12.2-2

apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
Installed: 19.0.1084.56-r140965
Candidate: 19.0.1084.56-r140965
Version table:
*** 19.0.1084.56-r140965 0
500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome_testing/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

No issues with Chrome or Firefox.
Host: debian Kernel: 3.4-trunk-486 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.8.3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid

[xircon]

Think it only affects 64bit systems?