Bug solved! In my case, the Laine gnome-shell extension was causing all the problems. when I turned the Laine extension off both google-chrome and chromium versions 75 (newest updates) worked again. Both video and audio playback ran normally again.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835623 Title: Google Chrome Linux version 75 freezes and then crashes when trying to play any video Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: (upstream bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=983203) Ubuntu 18.04 I expect Chrome to play videos. When I try to play any video on Google Chrome for Linux, any version of 75 or higher, Google Chrome freezes. Chrome 75 will allow sound but no video. All mouse clicks become unresponsive. Attempting to close Chrome after many mouse clicks causes Chrome to crash. Even worse it often also crashes Ubuntu 18.04. Google Chrome 74 or lower work without any problems playing videos. It is a Google Chrome Linux version 75 or higher problem. I cannot believe that neither Google or Ubuntu or any other Linux OS seem to completely ignore this extremely serious problem. I am forced to install Google Chrome 71 to fix video playback problem. I posted on Ubuntu ask, and show over 90 views but no comments. One answer confirms that he has the exact same problem. --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Desktop-Session: 'ubuntu' '/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg' '/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop' DetectedPlugins: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Env: 'None' 'None' InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-02 (66 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20181019) Load-Avg-1min: 1.47 Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.1% MachineType: MSI MS-7641 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia Package: chromium-browser 75.0.3770.90-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-55-generic root=UUID=7181ee96-0bd0-4b3c-9100-fa205ef6bd1d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-55.60-generic 4.15.18 Tags: bionic Uname: Linux 4.15.0-55-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm adm cdrom cdrom dip dip lpadmin lpadmin plugdev plugdev sambashare sambashare sudo sudo _MarkForUpload: True dmi.bios.date: 04/20/2015 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: V25.1 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: 760GMA-P34(FX) (MS-7641) dmi.board.vendor: MSI dmi.board.version: 5.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI dmi.chassis.version: 5.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV25.1:bd04/20/2015:svnMSI:pnMS-7641:pvr5.0:rvnMSI:rn760GMA-P34(FX)(MS-7641):rvr5.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr5.0: dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.name: MS-7641 dmi.product.version: 5.0 dmi.sys.vendor: MSI etcconfigcpepperflashpluginnonfree: flashso="/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so" flashversion=`strings $flashso 2> /dev/null | grep LNX | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sed -e "s/,/./g"` CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --ppapi-flash-path=$flashso --ppapi-flash-version=$flashversion" modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium-browser: [deleted] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1835623/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
