chromium hangs my computer when it (chromium) starts
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
0. tell the browser to save opened pages at exit and open saved pages at start.
1. code for a while; also, read stackoverflow, listen to some music, find its lyrics, read some news and follow some links on the news site. Whenever you need something different, open a new window; while searching for that something, open all search results and links in new pages; do not close the pages. After a while, you will have a number of Chromium windows (I have 19 now, with the number of tabs ranging from 4 to 32).
2. close the browser with Ctrl-Shift-Q
3. run Eclipse and Code::Blocks (this is what I use for Android NDK programming). Run SMPlayer with some music. Run Tortoise HG and open some files in Meld. Run another browser (in my case it was red-yellow-green Google Chrome, *different* from blueish-blue-blue Chromium -- I have both). Optionaly, open a pdf with lyrics, look at it and leave opened until better times.
4. finally, run Chromium.
Expected: It should start
Actual: it opens windows but draws nothing. The HDD LED blinks; the mouse does not move; no reaction on keyboard.
It may show a dialog proposing to kill some pages; if you don't agree immediately, your PC will lose responsiveness.
Once I had to reboot the computer; the last time I managed to close Google Chrome and thus freed some memory.
It's interesting that it reported newly opened pages as hanging.
It is possible that some pages start downloads. At least, I see messages about unfinished downloads when I try to close the browser. (And some pages may be showing poker or even porno -- I have no idea what they open in the background.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: chromium-browser 17.0.963.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 2 13:51:22 2012
Desktop-Session:
DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome-classic
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/
XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/
Env:
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
Natty have reached EOL since a while and that issue is not reproducible with recent version(s)