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Huh, yeah.. I'm running fedora, whatever the latest is. Maybe my smoothest Linux experience yet. I don't use Tumblr but I think that codebase is probably ancient and also doesn't it do an infinite scroll? That could be part of the problem, that's a hard thing to perfect. Curious -- were you using chromium or Firefox? For me it's Firefox all the way. Seems to work great so far
I was using Firefox. I don't expect Tumblr to be well coded, but at most it should be able to freeze a single browser tab, if a tab can crash the entire desktop then that's a greater issue. I haven't had issues with tumblrs infinite scroll on other desktop situations, and while the crash happens at random I've had it happen within 30 seconds of opening a site if there's a video first thing. The dmesg logs indicate that the GPU driver gets upset about something and resets itself at the time of the crash.
Trying the Firefox flatpak, or not installing the nonfree drivers didn't make any change for me.
When looking at past reports of the crash I've seen some people report that things are fine on chrome but I'm not willing to make the change to see if that helps haha. It's not a massive deal but it bugs me that I have to remember what websites to ignore and I want an expensive laptop to be a stress free experience so I'll stick with windows and maybe give Linux another try every year or so to see if they can tempt me over yet.
You could also try using KDE Plasma instead of Gnome, which survives GPU resets.
Yeah you're right that a website shouldn't be able to cause that issue. I'm wondering if it's a hardware issue. I'll try to reproduce this later on and will report back. You said you have the current amd chip, framework 13 right?
Yep! The Ryzen 5 7640U. It's never immediately, it generally takes several minutes, maybe just bringing up a Tumblr page with a video and letting it loop for several minutes might hopefully do it, though, I've had a crash when Tumblr wasn't the active tab so you can multitask if you're fine with suddenly getting booted.
Yeah same machine I have. Forgive my ignorance -- I've actually not used Tumblr very much. Could you link me to a page with a looping video? Somehow I'm having trouble finding a non-gif video at the moment.
How about https://www.tumblr.com/cute-catts/766377029924962304/this-keeps-him-busy-for-the-rest-of-the-night
Hmm, so I left that link above running in an active Firefox tab for about an hour and a half and didn’t see any crashes. I’m wondering again if you may have an obscure hardware issue. Either that or perhaps Fedora recently pushed out an update that fixed that issue. In any case I hope this might help to know. Have a good day!