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.
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.
Wdym? Almost all programs are like this, anything that uses an external library has issues like this.
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 java<NEWLINE>script). Example: <div id=“mycode” expr=“alert(‘hah!’)” style=“background:url(‘java script:eval(document.all.mycode.expr)’)”>
But on principle I agree. I can’t say whether Google Images works or not on my Firefox browser, because I’m using Mojeek.
my Fennec is having problem with googlw images
Interesting, mine isn’t. My FP4 is running 4.19, so it shouldn’t have the fix.
I use nightly though, so perhaps the fix is already in FF?
Nice to see a good example of telemetry use
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
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
