Re: [Dorset] Certain web sites crashing web browser

2019-05-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > certain web sites will crash a web browser, ... > PC1 SolydX ... > PC2 Xubuntu What graphics device does each PC have? Something like this may give the detail. lspci -knn | sed -n '/VGA/,/^[^\t]/p' | sed \$d > Web browsers involved are Firefox, Chrome and Opera all are the >

Re: [Dorset] Certain web sites crashing web browser

2019-05-30 Thread Stephen Wolff
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! >

[Dorset] Certain web sites crashing web browser

2019-05-30 Thread tim
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