workers should be used only with whitelisted versions for chrome

src/app/tabs/compileTab/compilerContainer.js

@@ -376,11 +376,31 @@ class CompilerContainer {
       }
       url = `${this.data.baseurl}/${this.data.selectedVersion}`
     }
-    // Check if browser is compatible with web worker
-    if (this.browserSupportWorker) {
-      // Workers cannot load js on "file:"-URLs and we get a
-      // "Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded" error on Chromium,
-      // resort to non-worker version in that case.
+
+    // Following restrictions should be deleted when Solidity will release fixed versions of compilers.
+    // See https://github.com/ethereum/remix-ide/issues/2461
+    const isChrome = !!window.chrome
+    const os = this._retrieveOS()
+    // define a whitelist for Linux
+    const linuxWL = ['0.4.26', '0.5.3', '0.5.4', '0.5.5']
+    const version = semver.coerce(this.data.selectedVersion)
+    // defining whitelist for chrome
+    let isFromWhiteList = false
+    switch (os) {
+      case 'Windows':
+        isFromWhiteList = semver.gt(version, '0.5.2') || version === '0.4.26'
+        break
+      case 'Linux':
+        isFromWhiteList = semver.gt(version, '0.5.13') || linuxWL.includes(version)
+        break
+      default :
+        isFromWhiteList = true
+    }
+
+    // Workers cannot load js on "file:"-URLs and we get a
+    // "Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded" error on Chromium,
+    // resort to non-worker version in that case.
+    if (this.browserSupportWorker && (!isChrome || (isChrome && isFromWhiteList))) {
       this.compileTabLogic.compiler.loadVersion(true, url)
       this.setVersionText('(loading using worker)')
     } else {
@@ -389,6 +409,14 @@ class CompilerContainer {
     }
   }
 
+  _retrieveOS () {
+    let osName = 'Unknown OS'
+    if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Win') !== -1) osName = 'Windows'
+    if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Mac') !== -1) osName = 'MacOS'
+    if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Linux') !== -1) osName = 'Linux'
+    return osName
+  }
+
   _updateLanguageSelector () {
     // This is the first version when Yul is available
     if (!semver.valid(this._retrieveVersion()) || semver.lt(this._retrieveVersion(), 'v0.5.7+commit.6da8b019.js')) {