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Re: Web browser tabs turn white

 

If you're looking for a test case to reliably reproduce this, just play

https://uappexplorer.com/app/day-d-app.ogra

I can barely play a single level before the view blanks out. Especially
if there's some other apps opened too.

Br,
Michael

On 18.08.2015 20:13, Fredrik Andersson wrote:
> 
> 
> Den 2015-08-18 18:38, Andrea Bernabei skrev:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Olivier Tilloy
>> <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Dominik Wnęk <dominik@xxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:dominik@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>     > Dnia 10 sie 2015 o godz. 13:21 Olivier Tilloy
>>     <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> napisał(a):
>>     >
>>     >>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Oliver Grawert
>>     <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>     >>> hi,
>>     >>> Am Montag, den 10.08.2015, 12:47 +0200 schrieb Dominik Wnęk:
>>     >>>
>>     >>>>
>>     >>>> Does this mean a single webpage with no images is capable of
>>     taking up all memory in the phone? Because that's the usage
>>     scenario I'm describing.
>>     >>>
>>     >>> well, it is definitely the same result, the renderer dies and
>>     doesn't
>>     >>> tear the UI down with it (or notify the UI to enable it to show a
>>     >>> message to you or some such)
>>     >>>
>>     >>> it might be a different cause from ram issues if you really
>>     only have
>>     >>> that one tab and only the browser as only app open though
>>     (i.e. the
>>     >>> lifecycle management and memory management wouldn't be
>>     involved in this)
>>     >>>
>>     >>> so in that light it perhaps makes sense to file a new bug
>>     since the
>>     >>> renderer might have died because of other reasons ...
>>     >>
>>     >> If the renderer was killed by the system, then that’s a memory
>>     >> consumption issue (already tracked by e.g.
>>     >> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1478853). If the renderer crashed, then
>>     >> that’s a different issue indeed. Can you reproduce the situation
>>     >> reliably on one given page, or does it happen at random?
>>     >>
>>     >
>>     > Hi,
>>     >
>>     > It happens on various websites I visit, like eurogamer.net
>>     <http://eurogamer.net> or gamingonlinux.com
>>     <http://gamingonlinux.com>. There are usually other apps running,
>>     though (meaning: the phone's been up for a while) and it looks
>>     like it's closing them, because they take their time to load when
>>     switching away from the browser.
>>     >
>>     > Anyway, I just did a little test: I rebooted the phone and
>>     started reading eurogamer. Within 3 minutes I got the white
>>     screen, while loading comments to an article on the front page. Is
>>     there a way I can tell what the reason for the disappearing
>>     renderer was?
>>     >
>>     > They have a mechanism on the comments page which loads in new
>>     comments at the bottom after reaching a certain point down the
>>     page; I've had it go white a couple of times while it was doing
>>     that. Also, it can occur while I'm just quickly scrolling through
>>     a lot of comments.
>>
>>     I just tested the eurogamer case on my BQ Aquaris E4.5, loaded a few
>>     articles and their associated comments (I targetted articles with 150+
>>     comments), washed rinsed and repeated during 10min, and I didn’t get
>>     the dreaded blank page.
>>
>>     My device is on rc-proposed (image #100), so many components changed
>>     since the latest stable release of OTA5. This image from rc-proposed
>>     will soon become OTA6. Let’s see if that update makes things better
>>     for you.
>>
>>
>> rc-proposed 102, krillin, 
>>
>> I just had the facebook web-app turn white after scrolling the feed as
>> fast as possible for a minute and the switching back and forth from
>> the browser 
>>
>> the following is the output of "free -m" before and after the renderer
>> got killed 
>>
>> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ free -m
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:           960        856        104        179          2        242
>> -/+ buffers/cache:        611        349
>> Swap:          511        421         90
>>
>> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ free -m
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:           960        639        320         11          2         74
>> -/+ buffers/cache:        562        398
>> Swap:          511        346        165
>> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ free -m
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Im suffering from this aswell, guess its webapps.
> Usually surf on Imgur and 9gag, and all of a sudden its white and i have
> to restart and start over.
> Happens on alot of programs.
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