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Default Strange (and very annoying !!!!!) lockup

On 27/05/2021 20:22, gareth evans wrote:
Any known bugs here? ...

W10 with FireFox

Usually in the evening.

I'll look at both of my gmail accounts, but when
signing out of the second, the laptop freezes with
the disk light on.

There's no keyboard response in FireFox, not even
to Alt-F4, and no mouse cursor.

There's no Internet activity indicated on the
LEDs of the router.

The only recourse is to shut down by an extended
pressing of the power button.

It's only been happening in the last week or so.


I've had a similar thing with one or two specific websites in Pale Moon
under Linux Mint. It was resolved by adding a couple of domains to "My
filters" in uBlock origin. I think the explanation was a rogue script
which had a sort of recursive call on memory. Once that memory had
filled up the OS just choked.

Try disabling uBlock temporarily if you are running it, and see if that
helps

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Jeff