Chromium on RPi 3 Pixel

[nabilh2020]

The latest version of Chromium, I think 56, keeps crashing the O/S on RPi 3, either randomly, or when I try to visit some sites, like logging in to Google or Google Mail.

This makes it unusable, anyone having this issue, any bug report on this?

Is it possible to install another browser, like firefox in the mean time? until this mess is fixed?

Cheers.
Nabil H

[fruitoftheloom]

The latest version of Chromium, I think 56, keeps crashing the O/S on RPi 3, either randomly, or when I try to visit some sites, like logging in to Google or Google Mail.

This makes it unusable, anyone having this issue, any bug report on this?

Is it possible to install another browser, like firefox in the mean time? until this mess is fixed?

Cheers.
Nabil H

In the latest issue of MagPi Magazine there is an article about running a RPi 3B with Raspbian Jessie OS as a desktop computer, seems chromium-browser may need tweaking, though I find it AOK if do not have multiple Tabs open:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/59/


The alternatives are midori and firefox-esr browsers which are available from the Raspbian Jessie repositories:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-esr midori

[Tichun]

OS crashes on launching video online e.g on youtube or facebook.
There is high chance for this to happen.
It crashes that bad sysrq keyboard shorcuts wont even work.
Yet chromium is the fastest.

[nabilh2020]

Fact is,

RPi 3 with Pixel has Chromium as default & only browser, it's integrated,

so as it's buggy, it needs fixing.

[gkreidl]

Fact is,

RPi 3 with Pixel has Chromium as default & only browser, it's integrated,

so as it's buggy, it needs fixing.

That's not true. The default image also contains epiphany, which also has HW accelerated video. It definitely has bugs, which will not be repaired any more, but has one great advantage: It needs less memory and can also be used with only 512 MB memory.
Chromium needs more memory than any other browser and that may lead to swapping (which looks like freezing). The default swap size may be too low. I use 1.5 GB swap size and and have not experienced any chromium crash so far. But I prefer using other browsers anyway.

[nabilh2020]

I found out the problem in my case -

It is GL (full or fake KMS) - when I disabled it & use the original non-GL drier, no more crashes.

[nabilh2020]

Fact is,

RPi 3 with Pixel has Chromium as default & only browser, it's integrated,

so as it's buggy, it needs fixing.

That's not true. The default image also contains epiphany, which also has HW accelerated video. It definitely has bugs, which will not be repaired any more, but has one great advantage: It needs less memory and can also be used with only 512 MB memory.
Chromium needs more memory than any other browser and that may lead to swapping (which looks like freezing). The default swap size may be too low. I use 1.5 GB swap size and and have not experienced any chromium crash so far. But I prefer using other browsers anyway.

Well, the Pixel release does not have epiphany.

[fruitoftheloom]

Fact is,

RPi 3 with Pixel has Chromium as default & only browser, it's integrated,

so as it's buggy, it needs fixing.

That's not true. The default image also contains epiphany, which also has HW accelerated video. It definitely has bugs, which will not be repaired any more, but has one great advantage: It needs less memory and can also be used with only 512 MB memory.
Chromium needs more memory than any other browser and that may lead to swapping (which looks like freezing). The default swap size may be too low. I use 1.5 GB swap size and and have not experienced any chromium crash so far. But I prefer using other browsers anyway.

Well, the Pixel release does not have epiphany.

In the MENU under OTHER it is listed as Epiphany Web Browser

[gkaiseril]

First make sure your applications are up to date by performing the apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Then make sure you are running the latest version of Raperian, atp-get dist-upgrade.

As of today

pi@raspberrypi3:~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi3 4.9.28-v7+ #998 SMP Mon May 15 16:55:39 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

Chromium version 56.0.2924.84 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Raspberry 8.0

Note that the minor updates will have many fixes or current issues.

[DougieLawson]

As of today

pi@raspberrypi3:~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi3 4.9.28-v7+ #998 SMP Mon May 15 16:55:39 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

Chromium version 56.0.2924.84 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Raspberry 8.0

Note that the minor updates will have many fixes or current issues.

Your system is back level. Today's current kernel is 4.9.35+ #1014.

[runboy93]

Just use few hours (literally) to tweak everything inside raspbian / apps / chromium and after that usage will be much better, by default usage is like with my Pentium 4 processor without proper GPU (even moving websites up and down lags and loads forever)

[dodger4]

I have the same problem. After loading, you open a new tab or try to type something, it's crashed.

Task Manager reveals it's using 825 mb of 950 available (or something like that) there are 2 instances of the process using 25-40% of the CPU, and there are several instances using 0%. In other words it's hogging the whole machine. You have to hit ctrl-alt-del right away because shortly after that, the whole machine is frozen and will not respond to mouse or keyboard.

NOOBS...everything updated and upgraded every time I log on.

I have uninstalled it (using remove) and reinstalled it. Same results.