You could try the Brave browser, it doesn’t install Widevine DRM management by default but is otherwise Chrome based but avoids ad related functionality (ie google funding). Videos still work on Facebook so you could test whether DRM was causing the the crashes?
Sent from a mobile device! > On 30 May 2019, at 22:06, tim <zir...@xendistar.co.uk> wrote: > > > Evening all > > In summary I have a bit of a strange problem where certain web sites will > crash a web browser, > sometime this is a tab in the web browser or the entire web browser. > > Ok, some details, I have run extended smart tests on all the hard disks (ssd > and spinny ones) and > they all come back clear with no errors and this was done via two different > operating system SolydX > (debain testing) and Xubuntu 19.04 while connected to two different PC. > > PC1 SolydX, 2 x 500gb 3.5" Sata disk, 1 x 120gb SSD connected to a sata3 > extesion card (motherboard > only had sata2) > > SSD split between home and root, one of the 500gb disks had the efi partiton, > swap, tmp and var > on, the other 500gb disk was for backup > > PC2 Xubuntu 1 x 500gb 3.5 sata disk, 1 x 120gb SSD (both from PC1) > SSD is conected to the motherboard and running at Sata 2 speed, has home, > root and efi boot > 500gb disk has Swap, tmp and var > > Web browsers involved are Firefox, Chrome and Opera all are the current > version for the OS they are > running on. > > What happens, the web sites that cause the problems are Facebook and Twitter. > I help run a > Facebook group with over 5000 members. So use these sites to help inform our > FB group. What I find > is that one of the cores will start to run at 100% and then this will then > swap between cores until > either one of the tabs crash or the entire browser crashes. Sometimes this > can be within seconds a > couple of minutes of launching the browser or I maybe on another tab looking > at something and the > Facebook or Twitter tab crashes which is normally followed by the browser. > Running a video on > either FB or TW will normally bring on a browser crash. > > Opera was a fresh install on PC2 and tonight I removed Firefox from PC two, > moved and renamed the > profile for Firefox, checked the hard disk for any Firefox related files and > deleted them and then > reinstalled Firefox from the Xubuntu repo, it crashed with in two minutes of > launching it. > > PC1 had 16gb of memory PC2 has 20gb memory at no time when the crashed happen > has memory usage been > an issue. These is also 16gb swap file. > > Both tmp and var partitions are 20gb in size and I have never seen them using > anything more than > 10% of their capacity. > > Tonight, I moved over 50gb of data from the ssd to my Nas, the PC never broke > into a > sweat, minimal CPU usage and no issue. I have not had no other error showing. > > I can watch youtube video's without issue, on PC1 I was able to watch netflix > full screen HD > without issue, currently watching a youtube video now on PC2 as I write this. > > I am planning to swap out the SSD for a std 500gb disk which will be tomorrow > nights\weekends > project. and then run further tests to see if I can find where the issue is. > > So does anybody else have any suggestion for me to check?? > > Thanks in advance > > Tim H > > > > > > > -- > Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-06-04 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-06-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
