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Suddenly all of my Chrome browsers are crash Immediately upon a single key stroke. Is any one else seeing this?

From the latest Chrome portable to any of those I've downloaded and installed today are all doing it. Fossapup, Bionic and KLV are all displaying the same behavior.

@mikewalsh do you have any insight as to what is happening? Chrome starts up fine and fast but any keyboard input or mouse click and poof! Gone.

Hi @rockedge,

look here:

viewtopic.php?p=48480#p48480

Not a fix, but a workaround ...

peace

@rockedge :-

rockedge wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:33 pm

Suddenly all of my Chrome browsers are crash Immediately upon a single key stroke. Is any one else seeing this?

From the latest Chrome portable to any of those I've downloaded and installed today are all doing it. Fossapup, Bionic and KLV are all displaying the same behavior.

@mikewalsh do you have any insight as to what is happening? Chrome starts up fine and fast but any keyboard input or mouse click and poof! Gone.

It's probably the issue mentioned by one, above. The reason it doesn't affect me is because I routinely disable window compositing whenever I do a Puppy install.....thus, one less thing to conflict with whatever Google have, in their wisdom, decided will be the way Chrome interacts with the X11 windowing system...

Let us know if the above workaround from HerrBert does it for you, please? Thanks.

Mike.

sadly i was experiencing the same but in a different scenario..notably opening another tab etc.
To be fair i am not using the latest shiny hardware so this could be a contributing factor..

I would hazard a guess it is chrome specific as vivaldi and chromium do not exhibit this.

fossapup64 9.5, peebee's chromium 94 looks OK.

wizard

xenial wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 4:09 pm

sadly i was experiencing the same but in a different scenario..notably opening another tab etc.
To be fair i am not using the latest shiny hardware so this could be a contributing factor..

I would hazard a guess it is chrome specific as vivaldi and chromium do not exhibit this.

Almost certainly Chrome-specific. As many of you are aware by now, I run a ton of other Chromium 'clones' alongside Chrome; some just for the hell of it, some in various 'testing' modes, etc.....but they're all ones that I package regularly.

Not one of them - apart from Chrome itself - has displayed this same problem in the last couple of months. Just the Google-tweaked one (and for me, not even that).

Mike.

Turning of compton fixed Chrome from crashing on Bionic64. On KLV-Airedale it seems to work as expected with xfce4's compositor. I can try it out with picom going on KLV to see what happens there, On KLV-Airedale I am using @mikewalsh's Google_Chrome-portable

P.S. I have been duplicating the LAUNCH script and naming the copy "AppRun" and the directory moves down because now Rox sees it as an application.

rockedge wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 5:17 pm

Turning of compton fixed Chrome from crashing on Bionic64. On KLV-Airedale it seems to work as expected with xfce4's compositor. I can try it out with picom going on KLV to see what happens there, On KLV-Airedale I am using @mikewalsh's Google_Chrome-portable

P.S. I have been duplicating the LAUNCH script and naming the copy "AppRun" and the directory moves down because now Rox sees it as an application.

First thing i had to do with fossapup64 was turn of compton and the conky to lower the cpu usage with any browser installed.
Just opening a browser was causing cpu usage to be in the 60% mark and turning off compton cured it immediately.

@mikewalsh Thanks for the info and i do know one day i will have to say ta da to this old box eventually..only a matter of time before browsers will simply spit out the dummy but thanks to puppy i have managed to keep this old laptop chugging along.