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Nice to see a good example of telemetry use
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.
Here's the rest of the thread (should open entirely from the first link, but posting all 6 links just in case):
(1/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592904713090347
(2/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592906325095640
(3/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592907269834415
(4/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592908903430968
(5/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592909828889441
(6/6) https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592910420926394
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.
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.
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
- 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.
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this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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