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On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution (fedia.io)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread 🧵

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nice to see a good example of telemetry use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Highlights:

The crash started apparently out-of-the-blue, hitting thousands of Argentinian users on a Debian-based distro called Huayra, and specifically on version 5 which was based on Debian 10.

Everybody seemed to crash while searching for images on Google.

Google's code was allocating 20000 variables in a single frame.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Here's the rest of the thread (should open entirely from the first link, but posting all 6 links just in case):

(1/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592904713090347

(2/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592906325095640

(3/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592907269834415

(4/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592908903430968

(5/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592909828889441

(6/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592910420926394

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe update your link to point to the correct post. The link you have is a post on a kbin instance which doesn't have the full details, so i need to click again