[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#632308: chromium: stalls when loading web pages with flash

[Jonathan Nieder]

# This bug is important but I do not believe it is severe enough to
# warrant removing Chromium from wheezy.
severity 632308 important
quit

Hi Marcus,

Marcus Better wrote:

> The browser stalls when loading some web pages. I think it happens for
> pages with flash content. Examples are www.youtube.com, www.dn.se and
> many others.
>
> The activity indicator keeps spinning, but the page is only partially
> rendered and does not respond to interaction. The only way out is to
> close the tab.

Could you get a backtrace when in this state?  It works like this:

 1. Install chromium-dbg.
 2. Run "chromium --temp-profile -g" from a terminal and type "run" to
    get it going.
 3. Get a tab to hang.
 4. Hit ^C.
 5. Get a backtrace following the instructions from
    /usr/share/bug/chromium/presubj.

> I have flashplugin-nonfree 1:2.8.3, but the same pages work well with Iceweasel.

Yes, there are lots of differences between Chromium and Firefox.

Thanks for reporting it.
Jonathan