Solved This site Breaks my Linux Mint system;

[KGIII]

Hah!

I fixed it -- for me -- on Chromium. (Amusingly, it's from doing things I'd never suggest doing.)

Here is what I did... (I started with a Google search.)

Open: chrome://flags/
Search for: Rendering list
Using the drop down menu on the left, change it to: enabled
Shut down Chromium, making sure all processes have quit.
Open Chromium.
Open 'Settings' and navigate to: System (on the left)
Enable this setting: Use graphics acceleration when available
Shutdown Chromium, making sure all processes have quit.
Open Chromium.

I do not guarantee that this will work for you.

All I can say is that it worked at my house on my computer with a fully-updated Chromium browser.

If you're using Chromium (or even Chrome), it might work for you.

However, enabling 'hardware acceleration' (what they're now calling 'graphics acceleration') is known to cause strange bugs. One of the things I end up suggesting on a regular basis is disabling hardware acceleration.

If this does introduce bugs, you'll probably want to find a different site for your weather observations so that you can revert the changes made above. At this point in time, I can't say if it's going to cause me any trouble. But, yeah, we usually tell folks to turn that off -- but it appears to be working at my house.

 

[kc1di]

Working well here also

 

[Brian Alex]

Thanks guys. Using Waterfox browser now with no issues. -BA

 

[primavixenis]

It works pretty well on my arch system

 

[dimko]

computer is not supposed to crash by simply accessing a web page. You have bigger underlying issue.
May be you need to upgrade one of:
Mesa
GPU drivers
Browser
Combination of some/all above.

Perhaps disabling hardware acceleration can workaround this problem.

Even if page hangs browser - its not supposed to take GUI with it.

 

[Brian Alex]

It turns into a grey screen with no inputs effective. I tried the KB shortcuts for shut-down, reboot, and show terminal with no response. This is the only site that does this and I am a newbie so using Waterfox instead of Firefox in this one case is a viable solution for me. If some other related issue appears, then I will perhaps pursue your suggested remedies. Thanks. -BA

 

[dimko]

Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring
(google it)
First three usually enough to get you into console, from there you can restart GUI without restarting whole computer.

In Linux, if you can get into console - your PC is not hopeless case.

ctrl alt printscreen r - this will make yourpc react to keyboard 95% of all times.(gui can still hang)
ctrl alt F2 - can get you into console.

there you can possibly restart GUI without PC restart.
Now how - F'd if I know. i am just a monkey with a grenade.

 

[Brian Alex]

Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring
(google it)
First three usually enough to get you into console, from there you can restart GUI without restarting whole computer.

In Linux, if you can get into console - your PC is not hopeless case.

ctrl alt printscreen r - this will make yourpc react to keyboard 95% of all times.(gui can still hang)
ctrl alt F2 - can get you into console.

there you can possibly restart GUI without PC restart.
Now how - F'd if I know. i am just a monkey with a grenade.

I already searched and read all of those KB combos but nothing helps. Maybe I was doing them wrong. Anyway, switching to Waterfox works, so far. Thanks

 

[dimko]

if those shortcuts did not work - your pc from looks of it has seriously hanged.

driver/OS update seems like a good idea here.

 

[Brian Alex]

Thanks, I will consider this if there are further issues. For now everything is excellent.