A quick follow up for anyone interested.

A quick follow up for anyone interested. I was having chrome lockup issues in Linux Ubuntu 16.04 with the default Unity desktop. I installed Lubuntu / LXDE to use as the desktop manager and my lock up issues went away.

The laptop I’m using on the laser isn’t a graphics powerhouse, so I assume I was just hitting some threshold of webgl performance as mentioned by a few. Dropping to a desktop environment that lightweight cleared it up.

Much better now.