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I haven't seen a single firefox or chrome crash in months now, you should really stress-test your hardware.

by saati 7mo ago

galangalalgol 7mo ago
I can't recall a single Firefox crash in at least a decade. What are people doing? I run ublock origin, nothing else. I do sometimes have Firefox mobile misbehave where it stops loading new pages and I jave to restart it, but open pages work normally as do all other operations, so not a crash exactly. Happens maybe once a month Edit: more context, I power cycle at least once a week on desktop and the version is typically a bit behind new. I also don't have more tabs open than will fit in the row. All these habits seem likely to decrease crashes.
- ordu 7mo ago
  Yeah. Lately even if I OOM my system, firefox doesn't crash so easily, individual tabs do.
  - silon42 7mo ago
    For me, OOM effectively crashes my system 90% of the time, usually caused by firefox (chromium too), if a website goes out of control (rarely it's caused by too many pages open, as tab discarding takes care of that).
- BenjiWiebe 7mo ago
  We have 5 computers running Firefox. One computer has regular Firefox crashes. I've done some memory testing that didn't detect anything wrong. I've tried all kinds of things software-wise but keep getting random crashes. I wonder if I should do a longer memory test, maybe some CPU stress testing at the same time...
  - sfink 7mo ago
    If you want to dig into it, you can post a bunch of that computer's crash reports (navigate to about:crashes) on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=General https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c... Or you can view several of them and see if there's a common pattern in the "Signature" field. Firefox really should only be regularly crashing if: (1) there's a real bug and the thing that triggers it, (2) you're running out of memory, or (3) you have hardware. I don't know what the odds of faulty hardware are for a randomly chosen user, but they're much higher for a randomly chosen user who is seeing regular crashes.
p-t 7mo ago
firefox crashes... decently often for me, but it's usually pretty clear what the cause is [having a bunch of other programs open]. every time i can recall my computer bluescreening [in the last year~, since that's how long ive had it] it was because of firefox tho. this may have something to do with the fact that my laptop is from 2017, however.
- cobalt 7mo ago
  firefox should not be able to cause a bluescreen, that is a bug somewhere in the kernel (drivers)
guenthert 7mo ago
And there's an app for that, aptly named stressapptest (originally developed by google). In the (now distant) past, I found it to be much more efficient (in terms of runtime until fault detected) and effective in finding memory related (RAM chips or memory controller) defects than memtest.

I haven't seen a single firefox or chrome crash in months now, you should really stress-test your hardware.

by saati 7mo ago

I haven't seen a single firefox or chrome crash in months now, you should really stress-test your hardware.

I can't recall a single Firefox crash in at least a decade. What are people doing? I run ublock origin, nothing else. I do sometimes have Firefox mobile misbehave where it stops loading new pages and I jave to restart it, but open pages work normally as do all other operations, so not a crash exactly. Happens maybe once a month Edit: more context, I power cycle at least once a week on desktop and the version is typically a bit behind new. I also don't have more tabs open than will fit in the row. All these habits seem likely to decrease crashes.

ordu 7mo ago
Yeah. Lately even if I OOM my system, firefox doesn't crash so easily, individual tabs do.
- silon42 7mo ago
  For me, OOM effectively crashes my system 90% of the time, usually caused by firefox (chromium too), if a website goes out of control (rarely it's caused by too many pages open, as tab discarding takes care of that).
BenjiWiebe 7mo ago
We have 5 computers running Firefox. One computer has regular Firefox crashes. I've done some memory testing that didn't detect anything wrong. I've tried all kinds of things software-wise but keep getting random crashes. I wonder if I should do a longer memory test, maybe some CPU stress testing at the same time...
- sfink 7mo ago
  If you want to dig into it, you can post a bunch of that computer's crash reports (navigate to about:crashes) on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=General https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c... Or you can view several of them and see if there's a common pattern in the "Signature" field. Firefox really should only be regularly crashing if: (1) there's a real bug and the thing that triggers it, (2) you're running out of memory, or (3) you have hardware. I don't know what the odds of faulty hardware are for a randomly chosen user, but they're much higher for a randomly chosen user who is seeing regular crashes.

p-t 7mo ago

firefox crashes... decently often for me, but it's usually pretty clear what the cause is [having a bunch of other programs open]. every time i can recall my computer bluescreening [in the last year~, since that's how long ive had it] it was because of firefox tho. this may have something to do with the fact that my laptop is from 2017, however.

cobalt 7mo ago
firefox should not be able to cause a bluescreen, that is a bug somewhere in the kernel (drivers)

guenthert 7mo ago

And there's an app for that, aptly named stressapptest (originally developed by google). In the (now distant) past, I found it to be much more efficient (in terms of runtime until fault detected) and effective in finding memory related (RAM chips or memory controller) defects than memtest.