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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 🧵

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 🧵

  • ono
    62•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]
      9•1 year ago

      Everybody seemed to crash while searching for images on Google.

      I’m experiencing this with Q4OS 3 (Centaurus), which under the hood is Debian 10 (Buster) – and with the supposedly more stable Firefox ESR.

      (Now using DuckDuckGo as an image search workaround.)

    • @WaterSwordEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I have been having crashes in safari, on ios, when searching for google images!