TFB on Chrome.on Android freezes

sorbz62

I am now getting some strange behaviour using Chrome on my S22 Ultra, where some graphics heavy pages are stalling and freezing the phone. I have to wait then exit the app. Any ideas?

hywelg

I'm finding problems on my Pixel 6a that the page won't scroll right to get bottom. Indeed one post with 9 replies only shows the OP. This is in Chrome with view set to Desktop Site. 

Edit. Swapping to non-desktop site and back again seems to have cured it for now. 

Neilybob

sorbz62 said:

I am now getting some strange behaviour using Chrome on my SW2 Ultra, where some graphics heavy pages are stalling and freezing the phone. I have to wait then exit the app. Any ideas?

Got the exact same issue with my Samsung galaxy S20. It's not like you can uninstall chrome. Quite frustrating. 

DiscoStu

Yeah, this came up a couple of weeks ago and hasn't resolved itself. I'm using Chrome (in 'Full Site' mode) on a OnePlus 8T running Android 13.
Constant freezing and then Chrome shuts down and it's only when I'm on this site.

sorbz62

This is happening more frequently now. For the first rime.it just froze my phone totally and I had to do a hard reboot.  This only happens with the Fretboard.

sorbz62

And now it is every second page!

Sporky

I'm getting it on Duck Duck Go on Android.

Pages with lots of images often freeze. 

digitalscream

OK, just as a catch-all suggestion...have any of you tried clearing the cache/cookies/both?

darthed1981

Neilybob said:

sorbz62 said:

I am now getting some strange behaviour using Chrome on my SW2 Ultra, where some graphics heavy pages are stalling and freezing the phone. I have to wait then exit the app. Any ideas?

Got the exact same issue with my Samsung galaxy S20. It's not like you can uninstall chrome. Quite frustrating. 

Same on an S20FE.

I think it's a bug with one of the more recent security updates.

What I've noticed on mine as well is that the mobile view for TFB isn't working properly.

I'm trying an all time cache clear... taking a while!

darthed1981

...fixed the mobile view issue at least.

notanon

Same here, pixel 6. Tried clearing cache. One page I can reproduce issue every time is in Guitars for sale

Gretsch 5420t- modded and punctured!

That freezes and sometimes crashes chrome badly. I will try other browsers now.

notanon

Firefox okay on pixel checked before and after logging in.

notanon

Damn, now okay on the page:

Gretsch 5420t- modded and punctured!

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/250700/gretsch-5420t-modded-and-punctured#latest

And then had a slight freeze on this page :-(

Android 13 5 June 2023 update

sorbz62

Im still getting this issue with pages that have photos embedded from links.

digitalscream

sorbz62 said:

Im still getting this issue with pages that have photos embedded from links.

Can you give me an example URL?

sorbz62

its random but only on this forum.

notanon

sorbz62 said:

its random but only on this forum.

I seem to experience the same. The only other issue I seem to have is with Duolingo which is probably running via web protocols, tbc.

I have to wait for up to a minute on my pixel but rapid if I use my wife's tablet, all is good. I've used Duolingo for vocabulary building for a long long time, I know that something is not right and Samsung is fine.

Good luck trouble shooting this, not easy being web master, even harder Web Master + DevOps + Infosec + infrastructure + Dec. Adiós to that!