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    From bob prohaska@3:770/3 to All on Sat Nov 13 23:13:44 2021
    Anybody noticing chromium crashing immediately when opening YouTube?

    It started about a day ago. Everything is up-to-date, apart from the
    trouble with YouTube things seem more-or-less normal. This is on a
    Pi4, 8GB booting from a mechanical hard disk.

    Thanks for reading,

    bob prohaska
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  • From Marco Moock@3:770/3 to All on Sun Nov 14 07:49:47 2021
    Am Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:13:44 -0000 (UTC)
    schrieb bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net>:

    Anybody noticing chromium crashing immediately when opening YouTube?

    It started about a day ago. Everything is up-to-date, apart from the
    trouble with YouTube things seem more-or-less normal. This is on a
    Pi4, 8GB booting from a mechanical hard disk.

    Is video acceleration enabled?
    Do you get any message if you start Chromium in a Terminal?
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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to A. Dumas on Sun Nov 14 10:56:30 2021
    On 14-11-2021 10:49, A. Dumas wrote:
    On 14-11-2021 00:13, bob prohaska wrote:
    Anybody noticing chromium crashing immediately when opening YouTube?

    This seems to be a solution, delete a specific cookie after every use: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=1937586#p1937586

    That whole thread is not fun to read. Simon Long fucked up big time with
    these fundamental switches on the desktop (KMS, Wayland, GTK+3, Mutter).
    A few posts down from that link there's a description on how to change
    back to Openbox which apparently solves some trouble.
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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to bob prohaska on Sun Nov 14 10:49:00 2021
    On 14-11-2021 00:13, bob prohaska wrote:
    Anybody noticing chromium crashing immediately when opening YouTube?

    This seems to be a solution, delete a specific cookie after every use: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=1937586#p1937586
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  • From bob prohaska@3:770/3 to A. Dumas on Sun Nov 14 16:40:45 2021
    A. Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> wrote:
    On 14-11-2021 10:49, A. Dumas wrote:
    On 14-11-2021 00:13, bob prohaska wrote:
    Anybody noticing chromium crashing immediately when opening YouTube?

    This seems to be a solution, delete a specific cookie after every use:
    https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=1937586#p1937586

    Deleting the offending YouTube cookie does the trick; I can at least open
    the YouTube landing page without a chromium crash.

    That whole thread is not fun to read. Simon Long fucked up big time with these fundamental switches on the desktop (KMS, Wayland, GTK+3, Mutter).
    A few posts down from that link there's a description on how to change
    back to Openbox which apparently solves some trouble.

    Reading down in the thread there's a reference to reinstating openbox as
    the window manager. My Pi4 is an older installation (still Buster) and it
    is presently using openbox:

    window_manager=openbox-lxde-pi

    My problems did emerge after doing an incremental upgrade, but a reboot
    didn't help so it looks like a library change is at least part of the
    trouble.

    It doesn't sound like an upgrade to Buster will do any good, at least
    not yet. If anybody has more ideas please share them.

    Thanks for a most helpful reply!

    bob prohaska
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