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> In other words up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects! If I subtract crashes that are caused
by tredre3 8mo ago
> In other words up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects! If I subtract crashes that are caused by resource exhaustion (such as out-of-memory crashes) this number goes up to around 15%.
Crashes caused by resource exhaustion are still software bugs in Firefox. At least on sane operating systems where memory isn't over-comitted.
- LorenPechtel 8mo agoMemory isn't the only resource.
- rockdoe 8mo agoWhat's the expected behavior of a JavaScript program that allocates all memory on the machine?
- gkbrk 8mo agoBrowser killing the tab way before it happens