anybody else having issues with chromium?

[wizard10000]

Is anyone else having issues with chromium being slightly less-than-stable? I'm seeing the occasional lockup and the common application appears to be chromium; not seeing lockups with firefox or konqueror.

I pitched my profile in hopes that would smooth things out but it locks up the machine even with a clean profile. Hardware acceleration is disabled as I use nouveau instead of closed-source Nvidia drivers.

Anybody else seeing this?

[GreyGeek]

Chrome was giving me constant trouble, the worst being that it wouldn't play half of the YouTube videos I want and Google blamed me or my configuration. Its "help" page was useless. So, I dumped Chrome and went back to FF 47

[wizard10000]

Chrome was giving me constant trouble, the worst being that it wouldn't play half of the YouTube videos I want and Google blamed me or my configuration. Its "help" page was useless. So, I dumped Chrome and went back to FF 47

A shame. FF has issues with font rendering on my machine; I've got probably eight different zoom levels for different domains I have bookmarked and CNN is particularly persnickety - but chromium displays everything correctly if I force high-dpi support.

Also, at least on my machine chromium starts faster than FF does :P

[acheron]

Both are fine here, but could be graphics driver dependant etc.

[stratacast]

A friend of mine is using Firefox on Ubuntu GNOME with a 4K monitor and he found changing the "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx = ?" in about:config to 2 worked for him. You can change it to anything, sounds like the sweet spot is around 1.3-2. He also told me firefox in windows switches to the right setting by default. Same with macOS. Looks like mozilla is thumbing their nose at Linux users?

[wizard10000]

A friend of mine is using Firefox on Ubuntu GNOME with a 4K monitor and he found changing the "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx = ?" in about:config to 2 worked for him...

Been there, did that

TBH what fixed *most* of it was using the same fonts FF for Windows uses instead of the default. There is some CSS out there that's not hi-dpi friendly,

I had different zoom levels for just about every website I had bookmarked until I looked at the default font settings for FF under Windows, duplicated the settings and now only a couple are kinda weird.

On the chromium issue, it appears to have been a plugin; a clean profile also locked up the machine but I switched a couple of extensions to different ones that had the same functionality and chromium appears stable so far.

[GreyGeek]

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On the chromium issue, it appears to have been a plugin; a clean profile also locked up the machine but I switched a couple of extensions to different ones that had the same functionality and chromium appears stable so far.

Been there, done that. No change. On my box Chromium didn't start any faster and still wouldn't play half the vids.