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Are people getting so many FF crashes? Mine rarely does. I leave it running, opening and closing tabs, for weeks on end.
by BeetleB 8mo ago
Are people getting so many FF crashes? Mine rarely does. I leave it running, opening and closing tabs, for weeks on end.
- intrasight 8mo agoMonths in my case. But I have ECC. Every five years I build a new development workstation and I always have ECC.
- Izkata 8mo agoI can also go months and don't see crashes (though occasionally I'll hit a memory leak where closing tabs doesn't release it so I'll restart firefox then), but unless ThinkPads come with ECC I don't have it.
- fooker 8mo agoYes
- tbossanova 8mo agoSame, been using it for over 20 years and probably only a handful of crashes in that time. But I mostly look at dead simple web stuff (like hn) and run aggressive ad blocking so I might not be representative of the average user
- zuminator 8mo agoNaively, the more stable a piece of software is, the more likely that its failures can be attributed to hardware error.
- AngryData 8mo agoIts pretty stable for me, except it has some memory leaks. Generally I gotta leave heavy pages open for days at a time to notice, but if I don't close it entirely for over a week or two it will start to chug and crash.
- Macha 8mo agoThe only browser I’ve crashed in the last decade is mobile safari, and that’s probably because it runs out of memory
- socalgal2 8mo agoDoes "Weeks on end" = 4? Or do you not take the latest update every 4 weeks?
- shakna 8mo agoHow many DRM-heavy websites do you use? Widevine is a buggy thing.
- mft_ 8mo agoI run FF on Mac laptop, Windows/Linux laptop, and Windows desktop and can’t remember it crashing in years.
- endemic 8mo agomacOS crashes more than Firefox for me.
- magicalhippo 8mo agoSlack caused frequent FF crashes, until I realized Slack has (had?) a live leak. Added an extension which force-reloads the Slack page every 15 minutes and that stopped the crashing.
- samus 8mo agoIt really depends on what you're doing with your hardware. Overclocking, overheating, unstable power supply, and things like that increase the likelihood of memory bitflips.