Browsers constantly crashing

[Arch_Enemy]

Ever since I updated to Firefox 50 (and the gstreamer updates), Firefox locks up randomly on me. I've started using Chrome. Something in the recent updates broke video, as it only locks up on pages with videos.

If you have an nVidia, drop back to 304 or 340. 367 is a mess, and nVidia knows it. They already fixed it with 375, but it's not in the repositories yet.

[BG405]

I have had 1 crash so far on the Cinnamon (17.3 64-bit) machine with FF50, it had disappeared with no crash dialogue when I got back early this morning, so will keep an eye on it. I'll also check the logs when I get back later (am at the local brewery). I'm thinking of going with an LTS version of Firefox anyway.

Something in the recent updates broke video, as it only locks up on pages with videos.

Unfortunately the opposite is true on this (17.3 32-bit KDE) machine and now YouTube videos no longer give the snowy screen with error message and I have to stop them myself and move the playback to the end in order to avoid wasting bandwidth & waiting for it to buffer before loading the page properly. Not good when more than one YouTube tab is open. I download the videos so there's no point in loading them in the browser as well, especially if I'm using someone else's connection. This would be a problem with a metered connection.

[danbuter]

Ever since I updated to Firefox 50 (and the gstreamer updates), Firefox locks up randomly on me. I've started using Chrome. Something in the recent updates broke video, as it only locks up on pages with videos.

If you have an nVidia, drop back to 304 or 340. 367 is a mess, and nVidia knows it. They already fixed it with 375, but it's not in the repositories yet.

I dropped back to 340. Hope this works. Thanks for the tip!

[danbuter]

Ever since I updated to Firefox 50 (and the gstreamer updates), Firefox locks up randomly on me. I've started using Chrome. Something in the recent updates broke video, as it only locks up on pages with videos.

If you have an nVidia, drop back to 304 or 340. 367 is a mess, and nVidia knows it. They already fixed it with 375, but it's not in the repositories yet.

As noted, I dropped back to 340. Haven't had any issues since then. Thanks for the advice!

[Arch_Enemy]

Ever since I updated to Firefox 50 (and the gstreamer updates), Firefox locks up randomly on me. I've started using Chrome. Something in the recent updates broke video, as it only locks up on pages with videos.

If you have an nVidia, drop back to 304 or 340. 367 is a mess, and nVidia knows it. They already fixed it with 375, but it's not in the repositories yet.

As noted, I dropped back to 340. Haven't had any issues since then. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks! Glad it worked for you!