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submitted 1 year ago by KoolKai@fedia.io to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] erik1984@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nice to see a good example of telemetry use

[-] ono@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 65gmexl3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

maybe update your link to point to the correct post. The link you have is a post on a kbin instance which doesn't have the full details, so i need to click again

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