Synopsis: Chromium 44.0.2403.125 (64-bit) crashes when using the
uBlock Origin extension
Category: amd64/www
Environment:
System : OpenBSD 5.8
Details : OpenBSD 5.8 (GENERIC.MP) #1236: Sun Aug 16 02:31:04 MDT
2015
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64
Machine : amd64
Description:
Chromium crashes and dumps core when installing the web experience
enhancing extension uBlock Origin. The extension is installed manually
as per instructions on the author's GitHub page:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/master/dist#install
How-To-Repeat:
Just install
Fix:
The fix posted on https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/566 is
effective. The problem is characterized as a browser bug but the fix
is a patch to the extension code.
