I did switch to Chrome too... Until Chrome also got all screwed up... :( So now I use Firefox again because I can: kill $(ps -ef|grep ' true tab$'|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}') and that kills all browser scripts and crashes all the browser tabs, but the tabs survive and can be individually restored. Can't do that with Chrome... ET techlists@phpcoderusa.com writes: > Hi Joe, > > I used to have the issue with JavaScript taking over my browser. Looks > like that is the same issue you are having. I used to use FireFox. Had > the problem all the time. I changed to chrome. Solved the problem. > > Keith > > > On 2018-05-22 16:22, joe@actionline.com wrote: >> Recently, I have begun to have recurring issues >> with my Linux Mint 18.1 system seeming to get "stuck" >> and I can't figure out why. I leave my system running >> 24/7 and have rarely had a reason or need to shut down. >> It has now been running (mostly fine) for 10 days. >> >> The recent problems have happened with both the chrome >> browser and the firefox browser (open at separate times). >> >> Various symptoms include the screen seeming to "freeze" >> sometimes with the cursor pointer disappearing, sometimes >> it changes to an "I" instead of an arrow pointer and is >> either unmovable on the screen or sometimes it can be >> moved, but at a drunken snail's pace. >> >> Sometimes the screen goes blank and if I walk away and >> come back after several minutes, the screen is restored >> and the cursor can be moved again. >> >> I have uploaded a screen shot and two text files as >> examples, including top.txt ... ps-ef.txt ... and a couple >> of screen shots. Can someone tell me what processes ps-ef >> show that should be or could be killed? >> >> Why does top-txt show two instances of chrome running ?? >> Why does top whoc 4 users when 'who' shows only 3? >> And why are there 3 users when I am the only user? >> >> http://www.upquick.com/temp/freeze.jpg >> http://www.upquick.com/temp/top-txt >> http://www.upquick.com/temp/ps-ef.txt >> >> t420: who >> joe tty8 2018-02-28 14:39 (:0) >> joe pts/2 2018-05-22 15:43 (:0) >> joe pts/5 2018-02-28 14:40 (:0) >> >> top - 15:47:20 up 170 days, 5:29, 4 users, load average: 0.22, 1.01, >> 10.65 >> Tasks: 245 total, 2 running, 235 sleeping, 0 stopped, 8 zombie >> %Cpu(s): 5.0 us, 1.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.6 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, >> 0.0 st >> KiB Mem: 8056428 total, 3870692 used, 4185736 free, 134676 buffers >> KiB Swap: 1951740 total, 1769720 used, 182020 free. 1161048 cached >> Mem >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ >> COMMAND >> 10665 joe 20 0 3832944 239268 63624 S 11.9 3.0 6649:51 >> plasma-desk+ >> 15697 joe 20 0 511896 50588 35968 S 5.3 0.6 0:05.17 >> konsole >> 10241 root 20 0 419892 148588 99172 S 4.0 1.8 1567:26 Xorg >> 10659 joe 20 0 3247440 90844 18280 S 0.7 1.1 642:54.34 kwin >> 18274 joe 20 0 1841712 181908 16 S 0.7 2.3 50:10.02 >> chrome ***** (1) >> 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 75:00.93 >> rcuos/0 >> 487 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 464:58.53 >> irq/44-iwlw+ >> 1174 root 20 0 4388 224 100 S 0.3 0.0 112:21.59 acpid >> 14574 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.42 >> kworker/u16+ >> 15757 joe 20 0 24964 3168 2568 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.81 top >> 31023 joe 20 0 1752576 36352 0 S 0.3 0.5 149:49.69 >> chrome ***** (2) >> 1 root 20 0 37500 2096 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.22 init >> 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.73 >> kthreadd >> 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 10:32.60 >> ksoftirqd/0 >> 5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 >> kworker/0:0H >> 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 136:59.67 >> rcu_sched >> 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 23:30.73 >> rcuos/1 >> 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 44:27.97 >> rcuos/2 >> 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 25:53.54 >> rcuos/3 >> 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 >> rcuos/4 >> 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 >> rcuos/5 >> 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 >> rcuos/6 >> 15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 >> rcuos/7 >> 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 >> rcu_bh >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss