Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
by aforwardslash on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:12PM
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Just updated with a comment. I see firefox crash routinely, so apparently our experiences are quite different :)
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Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
by jesup on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:07PM
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You should look at about:crashes and see if there's any commonality in the causes, or bugs associated with them (though often bugs won't be associated with the crash if it isn't filed from crash-stats or have the crash signature in the bug)
Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
by antonf on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:52PM
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Maybe you should check your memory? I recently started to get quite a lot of Firefox crashes, and definitely contributed to this statistic. In the end, the problem was indeed memory - crashes stopped after I tuned down some of the timings. And I used this RAM for a few years with my original settings (XMP profile) without issue.
Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
by aforwardslash on Friday March 06, 2026 @08:15AM
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I experience them in several different devices; On my main device, I have hundreds of chrome tabs and often many workloads running that would be completely corrupt with random bit flips. I'm not discarding the possibility of faulty RAM completely, I just take the measurement of the tweet with a huge grain of salt - after all, I still remember when the FF team constantly denied - for more than half a decade - that the browser had serious memory leak problems, so its not like there isn't a history of pointing out other causes for FF crashes.
Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
by squeaky-clean on Friday March 06, 2026 @01:25AM
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The last time I can recall Firefox crashing was when I was using Windows Vista. This definitely sounds like a problem with your system.