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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)
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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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[-] Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space 31 points 1 year ago

It is interesting though that we find ourselves working around a bug we did not introduce triggered by code we do not control.

I imagine a lot of a browser's codebase looks like this. From what I understand, browsers expect webmasters to screw up their markup and make allowances for it.

[-] hare_ware@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

Wdym? Almost all programs are like this, anything that uses an external library has issues like this.

[-] Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space 3 points 1 year ago

I imagine so, but I don't know the specifics of other software. It's a quote from the Mastodon thread.

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I love Firefox and understand that making modern web browser is monumentally complex, but browser should not crash what ever some website does.

That said, my Fennec is having problem with googlw images.

[-] Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space 14 points 1 year ago

but browser should not crash what ever some website does.

Sometimes crashing would be better than trying to beat wonky code into shape: https://samy.pl/myspace/tech.html

  1. Sweet! Now we can do javascript with single quotes. However, myspace strips out the word "javascript" from ANYWHERE. To get around this, some browsers will actually interpret "java\nscript" as "javascript" (that's javascript). Example:

But on principle I agree. I can't say whether Google Images works or not on my Firefox browser, because I'm using Mojeek.

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

True, sometimes it is unavoidable.

But this looks like kernel issue, it is fixed in kernel 4.20.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my Fennec is having problem with googlw images

Interesting, mine isn't. My FP4 is running 4.19, so it shouldn't have the fix.

I use nightly though, so perhaps the fix is already in FF?

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I just updated it and is working nicely againg, thanks for recommendation.

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