Rather than forcibly kill browser processes for chrome you can just install the 'One Tab' plugin (https://www.one-tab.com/); the other issue with chrome I've had is that I have to turn off hardware acceleration or chrome is a royal CPU hog. The two together solved my Chrome issues. -- [image: eSig Logo] J.D AUSTIN TWIN GECKOS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LLC Open Technology Specialist P.O. Box 2487 Apache Junction, Az 85117 Web: www.twingeckos.com Work: 480-269-4335 x10004 Fax: 480-907-1433 Cell: 480-288-8195 On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:57 AM, wrote: > 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 >