Comment 107 for bug 1388612

(In reply to Alex from comment #100)
> Jamie Jackson, having read you issue with www.google.com/chrome, I've
> visited the site at least 10 times using Chrome after yesterday's updates
> and all went just fine. Are you facing the same issue when you're using
> chrome or is it a firefox issue only?

Not sure if the Chrome/YouTube still persisted after that, because that was intermittent--I never had a 100% reliable Chrome test case, which is why I was using the reliable Firefox case.

(In reply to Ryan Underwood from comment #101)
> Jamie, your uname -a output indicates that you haven't installed a kernel
> that contains the other part of the fix.
> Go here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
> Pick a kernel >= v3.19-rc1 and install the proper debs. Then make sure you
> choose that kernel at your bootloader.

Thanks for putting the pieces together for me, Ryan. I seem to have success now. (My package management is probably pretty weird as a result, but I'm going to ignore that.)

For the other n00bs, here was the final piece:

mkdir -p /tmp/kernel && cd /tmp/kernel
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-rc5-vivid/linux-image-3.19.0-031900rc5-generic_3.19.0-031900rc5.201501180935_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.19-rc5-vivid/linux-headers-3.19.0-031900rc5_3.19.0-031900rc5.201501180935_all.deb
sudo dkpg -i linux-image*
# In truth, I did this next one in GDebi, after I ran
# into a problem that "sudo apt-get install -f" fixed
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers*
sudo reboot

uname -a # yields:Linux minty 3.19.0-031900rc5-generic #201501180935 SMP Sun Jan 18 09:36:49 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# try firefox test case
firefox http://www.google.com/chrome/

=== Yields a black blip, but it recovers! and the followng output ===
(process:3038): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

(firefox:3038): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised

(firefox:3038): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised

(firefox:3038): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised

(firefox:3038): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
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