posting bitchute links on mewe hangs PM Topic is solved

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

Anytime I post a bitchute link at mewe.com PM hangs. I've tried a plain fresh profile & get the same result. When you post a link (meaning paste it in to a text field with or without commentary text) at mewe, it tries to extract some text and an image if there is one, to use as a thumbnail. It's that process that seems to be the problem. I get a wait animation and then the whole browser is unresponsive and remains so. I've tried letting it run for 30 minutes or so. Only way I can get out of it is to use xkill (only way I've tried that worked I mean - I could probably kill it from a terminal). Firefox works fine for this. Dillo apparently won't work there at all because mewe requires javascript. I haven't tried any other browsers.

This sort of freezing has always been an occasional issue for me, but in the past I could kill PM and restart it and it would work. Now it does this consistently on that one site, under this one circumstance. Any suggestions?

[Moonchild]

At 169 posts on this forum, you should be aware of the difference between a crash and a hang. I'll edit the topic title for you.

EDIT: unable to reproduce on Windows; the site spins for a second or so then displays a thumb, description and link, and Pale Moon doesn't hang.
Since you say it occurs semi-regularly for you, it might be something with your specific setup -- posting troubleshooting information etc. will be helpful.

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

Thanks. Whatever the source, the problem went away. What's the best way to gather trouble shooting info anyway? I've tried running in a terminal, but there is little if any output to stdout. There doesn't seem to be any "--verbose" or similar option. Accepting my own reply because there doesn't seem to be any other way to mark "solved".

[THX-1139]

Just went and tested this @mewe...posted a bitchute vid with little to no problem, just had to allow all on UBO and eMatrix. My first real post there since joining 2 months ago.

Bitchute can be wonky sometimes and some videos just won't play (on any browser) until maybe later or the next day, if at all. Bitchute imo is like the Wild West, you never can really rely on everything always working as intended.

Pale Moon 28.7.1 (64) Win7pro (64)

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Or people to use a very simple common sense troubleshooting technique to determine if the problem is the browser or their content blocking or manipulating extension.

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

Just went and tested this

Yes, as I wrote, the problem has gone away now. Some update, whether at mewe, bitchute, PM, or some local linux lib, apparently fixed it.

Bitchute can be wonky sometimes and some videos just won't play

Yes, but that's unrelated. I've discussed that with the webtorrent devs & they told me that some of the problematic bitchute pages bizarrely lack the information on their own seeder of last resort so to speak. If that's accurate, I don't understand how they ever get started to begin with for there to be other seeders, but that's what I was told when I submitted a long list of examples of good and bad bitchute links.

Or people to use a very simple common sense troubleshooting technique to determine if the problem is the browser or their content blocking or manipulating extension.

Sure. For example, in this case, as I wrote, I:
- created a fresh, plain PM profile and tested with that, and had the same problem - eliminating extensions as an issue.
- tested with Firefox which worked fine, making PM the logical thing to focus on.
Those are basic steps. Running in a terminal is another, but PM sends little if any info to stdout or stderr unfortunately. A --verbose option would be real handy.

At any rate, it's no longer an issue. I didn't fix it. Either some update to my system did, or somebody changed some code at bitchute or mewe.