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Web application is Crashing while trying to Watch youtube

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing the crash with flatpak run org.gnome.Epiphany on the reported ThinkPad T14 Gen 4, using the listed Wayland, Intel GPU, kernel, and software details. Compare the WebKit crash and Mesa warnings with the latest GNOME fix; done means YouTube video playback no longer crashes the browser tab or laptop.

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Description

What Happened?

So apperently this has been fixed in the latest version by the gnome team

in my back and foward with gemini pro i could understand this:

its a problem with the WebKit trying to communicate to my iGPU i have a thinkpad T14 Gen 4 (intel)

Steps to Reproduce

Logged in and opened the Web app
Went to Youtube.com
Played video
Browser Tab Crashes (even had an instance that crashed my laptop and needed a hard reset)

Expected Behavior

i expected the video to play

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

OS Architecture

amd64 (on most hardwares)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland, This is the default)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output
thanasis@ThinkPad-T14:~$ flatpak run org.gnome.Epiphany 
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:949: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers 
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:981: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers 

** (process:23872): WARNING **: 23:21:22.449: Error writing credentials
to socket: Error sending message: Broken pipe 

(epiphany:2): IBUS-WARNING **: 23:21:24.263: 
ibus_input_context_post_process_key_event: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Property 'PostProcessKeyEvent' does not exist 

(epiphany:2): IBUS-WARNING **: 23:21:24.365: 
ibus_input_context_post_process_key_event: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Property 'PostProcessKeyEvent' does not exist 

[... repeated IBUS warnings removed for brevity ...]

** (process:24086): WARNING **: 23:21:29.740: Error writing credentials
to socket: Error sending message: Broken pipe 

(epiphany:2): IBUS-WARNING **: 23:21:40.506: 
ibus_input_context_post_process_key_event: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Property 'PostProcessKeyEvent' does not exist 

(epiphany:2): epiphany-WARNING **: 23:21:51.107: Error running javascript: Unsupported result type 

(epiphany:2): epiphany-WARNING **: 23:21:51.108: Web process crashed
Hardware Info

OS: elementary OS 8 x86_64
Host: 21HDS37000 ThinkPad T14 Gen 4
Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic
Uptime: 1 hour, 26 mins
Packages: 2037 (dpkg), 65 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Resolution: 1920x1200
CPU: 13th Gen Intel i5-1345U (12) @ 4.700GHz
GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-P [UHD Graphics]
Memory: 6089MiB / 15638MiB

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