RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184574 185642
[GStreamer] gstreamer-vaapi makes WebkitGTK extremely crashy 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185642
Summary [GStreamer] gstreamer-vaapi makes WebkitGTK extremely crashy
Michael Gratton
Reported 2018-05-14 22:54:45 PDT
Epiphany's WebProcesses started crashing a while ago pretty much 100% of the time when scrolling through pages with video content (Twitter, Feedly, news sites, YouTube, etc). Turns out the problem seems to be caused by gstreamer-vaapi: Uninstalling that package makes the crashes stop. Installing gstreamer-vaapi is useful for people on Intel based portables since it allows offloading video decoding to the integrated GPU, reducing fan noise and power use. To repro with WebKitGTK 3.28.x on a machine that uses an Intel integrated GPU: Install gstreamer-vaapi (gstreamer1.0-vaapi on Deb/Ubuntu), open a Twitter feed, and just keep tapping the spacebar repeatedly. As you scroll down the page past a number of video elements, the web process will eventually crash.
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Michael Catanzaro
Comment 1 2018-05-15 09:19:14 PDT
Guessing bug #184574. If you think it's not a duplicate, then please post a backtrace. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 184574 ***
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