Package: chromium Version: 90.0.4430.212-1 I have no idea what causes this, but I've noticed it several times over the last year or two, always while using unix.stackexchange.com "U&L" (so it's probably got something to do with chromium's javascript interpreter).
Anyway, while editing a post on U&L, chromium will sometimes lock up, no longer responding to any keyboard or mouse input. When it does this, it also locks up most user interface elements in XFCE (the xfce4-panel, menus, buttons, tabs, etc). I can Alt-Tab to a terminal window to kill chromium, but if I click on a menu (e.g. the File menu) in the terminal, I'm unable to either select a menu item or get out of that menu...effectively freezing the terminal too. As soon as I kill chromium, xfce returns to normal behaviour. Restarting chromium does NOT trigger the lockup again, even when the U&L page gets reload by the chromium session manager (so, maybe some kind of memory or handle leak??). This only happens very rarely - maybe once every few months. I don't know whether it does the same thing with other window managers/desktop environments. BTW, I tend to leave chromium running for days, weeks, or even months at a time and have dozens of windows with hundreds of tabs. I have Adblock Origin and uMatrix and several other extensions installed, but allow most js on stack exchange sites (they won't work without it). Sorry for the lack of details and the lack of any easy or consistent way to reproduce the bug. craig ps: a browser locking up isn't that big a deal to me, it's almost to be expected given the nature of the web and javascript...but locking up the WM too is a problem. I've rebooted my machine a few times due to this until I realised it was chromium doing it and that just killing chromium would "fix" it. -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>
