Monday 13 March 2017

Display driver crashing when opening images in Google & Bing image search in Chrome

Had a problem on an oldish laptop where whenever we clicked on an image in Google or Bing image search, the display driver stopped responding.

To fix it I did this.
Open Chrome and open Settings -> Advanced Settings
Down near the bottom I disabled Use Hardware Acceleration if available.

I hope it works for you ...

Reset Gallery Thumbnails on Android

Go to the directory:
/data/data/com.androids.providers.media/databases/
and delete the file external.db. Don't touch internal.db.
To be safe you can just rename it so you can restore the file later.

Reboot and the thumbnails are all deleted. Android will recreate them after a little while, depending on how many images you have.

This worked for me on Galaxy S2 with custom ROM.