Bug#979443: chromium: desktop GUI locks up as Xorg process goes to 100%

[Steve A.]

Thanks, Jan.  I killed chromium, upgraded to 87* again, and re-launched 
with the recommended command last night.  The user is back on this 
morning and I'm monitoring from another machine.

Steve

Jan Luca Naumann wrote on 1/7/21 2:30 AM:
Dear Steve,

with the upgrade to 87.* we included the ANGLE library which manages the
OpenGL access of chromium. Maybe this is the cause of your problem.

Could you try to launch "$ chromium --use-gl=desktop"? This should
disable the usage of ANGLE.

Best,
Jan