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

[LoneVVolf]

On 14/11/2018 19.54, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> 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,
> 
Archlinux stock kernel went from 4.18.16 to 4.19 , where did you get 
4.18.19 ?

linux 4.19.2 is now in [testing] repo, you could try that.

Lone_Wolf