Clicking URLs causing system to become unresponsive [SOLVED]

[loupe]

Hey everyone,

I've played with a few Manjaro variations now and I'm really enjoying Fluxbox.

I've encountered the issue that when I click on a URL in applications outside of the browser (Pidgin, Skype, Package Manager) the browser fails to open, and then over the next minute or two the system slowly grinds to a halt. I'm using the default Pale Moon installation as my browser.

Any suggestions on how I might solve this would be greatly appreciated. Happy to provide further info if needed.

Cheers.

[handy]

I have a similar problem when I use the package search engine that is built into qBittorrent. When I select a package & then hit the Go to description page button, which should take me to the relevant web page via my default browser - Pale Moon. Instead nothing happens. Pale Moon has never worked for this though Firefox always did? I don't get the slow down though (my machine has a powerful i7 CPU & lots of RAM, which may hide that side of the problem). I'll give this a look now & check it out with htop & see what it tells me.

OK, I just checked & low & behold, it worked! Pale Moon opened up the URL when I selected the Go to description page button.

Looks like a Pale Moon update (or qBittorrent as there was a big update not long ago) has fixed the problem.

Sorry for wasting your time loupe, though thanks for posting as you caused me to discover that the qBittorrent / Pale Moon problem is now gone.

[loupe]

I tried changing the default browser to Chromium, but there was no change.

I opened htop before the system became too slow to use and noticed that swarms of duplicate commands were appearing:

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/bin/sh /usr/bin/xdg-open http://..
This command continued to duplicate until the system became completely unresponsive.

Also, sorry for the duplicate threads. I was getting gateway timeouts and had no idea that the posts were successful.

[Cubanpit]

In the i3 section of the forum there is a solution for this, it seems the same problem.
Sorry, I can't copy it easily, I'm on a smartphone.

[handy]

My memory...

@loupe: Try adding the following to your ~/.bashrc file (if you are using bash use alternate shell rc file if need be):

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BROWSER=/usr/bin/palemoon # Kill the "xdg-open that hogs the cpu" that you
# have to "sudo killall xdg-open" to stop!

alias kx="sudo killall xdg-open" # See above ^
The alias kx is to stop the problem when it occurs, though the first line should sort it for you.

Anyway, if the BROWSER= line doesn't sort it for you, enter kx in the terminal & that should manually give you back your cpu.

[Cubanpit]

https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=28449.0
It's not the same?

[winston]

Do you have anything(conky for example) where you can see your memory usage. I had a problem like this a while back and found that some program I installed was being triggered and was using all the memory bring the system to a halt. Never did figure out the whys but program removed problem solved.

[rabideau]

I found I needed to remove Palemoon altogether in order to avoid the problem... minus Palemoon my machine no longer grinds to a halt.  I found a similar performance problem with Dropbox, which I noted elsewhere on this forum.

[loupe]

Thank you all for the suggestions.

It appears that I was able to solve the issue with the solution provided over on the i3 forum.

I solved it for me by changing the BROWSER variable in /etc/environment:

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#BROWSER=/usr/bin/xdg-open
BROWSER=xdg-open

and the same procedure in /etc/profile:

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#BROWSER=/usr/bin/xdg-open
BROWSER=xdg-open


Everything seems to be working properly after a reboot.

[handy]

I was close, I just needed to blend the two lines that I'd posted & I was there.

Glad you got it sorted loupe.