Subject: bug#29736: i686: webkit not usable

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:09:43 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:
>>>
>>>> on my i686 laptop I cannot use Webkit browsers.  Eolie displays “WebKit
>>>> web engine crashed” when it loads a tab, and Epiphany displays nothing
>>>> at all after loading a page for a while.
>>>
>>> Are both grafted and ungrafted browsers affected?
>>
>> Unfortunately, they both are affected.
>>
>> It’s not just webkit: Icecat tabs also crash *a lot*.  Also here it’s
>> both grafted and ungrafted browsers.
>
> Can you grab backtraces so we have an idea where this happens?  It could
> be something in a support library like GTK+, Freetype, and whatnot.

This might be interesting: it seems that in Epiphany only pages with
non-trivial JavaScript are affected.  The tab does not crash when
visiting static pages like my blog.

This is the same in Epiphany and Icecat.

-- 
Ricardo

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