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[PBP] The Settings page of Chromium crashes #15

Closed amharris closed 4 years ago

amharris commented 4 years ago

With the out-of-the-box/bundled installation on my Pinebook Pro and all updates installed, moments after opening the 'Settings' page in Chromium—a split second after it finishes rendering—it crashes.

So far, I've carried out the usual basic troubleshooting steps, including reboots and checking for any package updates, to no avail.

PrincessLuna2253 commented 4 years ago

Can confirm, I'm having the exact same issue.

matthewadie commented 4 years ago

I can confirm this as well.

nebocamin commented 4 years ago

hi @mrfixit2001 , can you provide how you built the chromium, which flags/patches, so maybe we can tinker until we will have a chromium-pbp.deb to update it on our machines?

mrfixit2001 commented 4 years ago

All - this is caused from the parameters included in the shortcut for chromium. These parameters were added to support Netflix playback by default, but they anger the settings page. If you remove these parameters from the shortcut, or just run chromium-browser from the command line, you will have no issues accessing settings.

The chromium and firefox packages are borrowed from an ubuntu repo :) The debian desktop update that I released today will auto-install the new version. You can find it here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/armhf/chromium-browser/78.0.3904.108-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

louisabraham commented 4 years ago

Hi, I have the same issue. Could you confirm that clicking on "Update Script" in the menu bar of the preinstalled Debian is supposed to install this fix?

mrfixit2001 commented 4 years ago

Yes, there is an update for chromium and it’s settings that will be installed to address this when you click the update icon.

louisabraham commented 4 years ago

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately I did the updates before and the problem still happened. Is there a way to check if the updates were applied?

mrfixit2001 commented 4 years ago

There shouldn’t be an issue afterwards, but if it hasn’t resolved then you can access settings by running chromium-browser from the command line without any flags. The flags that are in the shortcut are the reason the settings page isn’t opening, but those flags enable the Netflix and prime video playback.

louisabraham commented 4 years ago

Thank you for your answer. Actually, I wanted a way to test if the updates were applied because I encounter several problems (not just this one) that are supposed to be solved.

The chromium shortcut calls chromium-browser --disk-cache-size=2147483648 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 6946.63.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Safari/537.36" is this can help.

I can confirm launching chromium from the command line works.