On 14/11/2018 17.54, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
Good evening,
I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play. It gets even worse when I open another tab. This will freeze Firefox though system load is ok. But I cannot kill Firefox, even logging off and on will keep it running in the background. Only way to stop it is a reboot and shutdown will take approx 10 to 15 mins for various stop jobs running. just downgraded to Kernel 4.18.19 and things are fine. I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.
KR Frank
Just another data point: (Might be related, might not...) I'm seeing something similar with 4.19.1, though it doesn't completely crash it just casues all GUI operations (even just switching windows) to become *really* sluggish until I reboot the machine. At that point firefox gets so slow that it's basically unusable -- this might be experienced as it having hung on a slower machine. I am able to quit it with regular Ctrl+Q though. Downgrading to 4.18.19 seems to fix it for me. (Running KDE on a Radeon GPU.) Regards,