[arch-general] Kernel 4.19 preventing Firefox from playing videos

Frank Zimmermann frank.zimmermann.berlin at freenet.de
Wed Nov 14 16:54:39 UTC 2018


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


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