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How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

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Re: How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

#11

Post by JupiterMoon »

FF has for me crashed more times in the last week than in the previous year. - Multiple installs on different Linux systems. The last crash was with a clean profile.

And then there's the disappearing dev tools - that's fun.

EDIT: I hope that there is something weird with my systems. But I fear that the rush to push this out might have been a little hasty.

EDIT EDIT Apart from the crashes the new FF has been nice. I've been able to largely stop using chromium for dev work - so not all is bad.

Re: How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

#13

Post by mbrubeck »

JupiterMoon wrote: post #11

FF has for me crashed more times in the last week than in the previous year. - Multiple installs on different Linux systems. The last crash was with a clean profile. And then there's the disappearing dev tools - that's fun. EDIT: I hope that there is something weird with my systems. But I fear that the rush to push this out might have been a little hasty. EDIT EDIT Apart from the crashes the new FF has been nice. I'v…

You can go to "about:crashes" to get some more information about reported crashes. If you open a crash report and click the "Bugzilla" tab, you can find out if a bug is on file for that specific stack trace.

Re: How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

#14

Post by JupiterMoon »

mbrubeck wrote: post #13
JupiterMoon wrote: post #11

FF has for me crashed more times in the last week than in the previous year. - Multiple installs on different Linux systems. The last crash was with a clean profile. And then there's the disappearing dev tools - that's fun. EDIT: I hope that there is something weird with my systems. But I fear that the rush to push this out might have been a little hasty. EDIT EDIT Apart from the crashes the new FF has been nice. I'v…

You can go to "about:crashes" to get some more information about reported crashes. If you open a crash report and click the "Bugzilla" tab, you can find out if a bug is on file for that specific stack trace.

Cool. I'll check this out next time. Any way to report the disappearing dev tools?

Re: How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

#15

Post by plq »

wyldfire wrote: post #9

Anecdote regarding this new FF: I would find frequent cases where my system would stall for 10-20s (could not caps lock toggle, pointer stopped moving). I almost always have just Chrome and gnome-terminal open (Ubuntu 16.04). I had attributed it to either a hardware or BIOS/firmware defect. Now, after switching to Firefox I have gone a week without seeing those stalls. YMMV -- I never bothered to investigate, it coul…

Typical behavior when the OS is writing to the swap space to free some ram.

If that ever happens again, you can run "free" on the terminal to see whether this is the case.

Re: How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

#17

Post by throwaway613834 »

wyldfire wrote: post #9

Anecdote regarding this new FF: I would find frequent cases where my system would stall for 10-20s (could not caps lock toggle, pointer stopped moving). I almost always have just Chrome and gnome-terminal open (Ubuntu 16.04). I had attributed it to either a hardware or BIOS/firmware defect. Now, after switching to Firefox I have gone a week without seeing those stalls. YMMV -- I never bothered to investigate, it coul…

This sounds vaguely like what I've been experiencing on recent Chrome versions. On Windows I've had Chrome randomly hang... initially on the network, then after a few seconds even the UI freezes. When that happens, if I launch Firefox and try to access the network, it hangs too. But programs that don't try to access the network don't hang. Then after maybe (very roughly) 30 seconds, it all goes back to normal. No idea what's been going on but it seems like you might be experiencing a same thing, and it seems like a recent bug on Chrome versions, not a firmware issue... I'm just confused at how it affects other programs. It didn't use to be like this just a few weeks ago.

Re: How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

#18

Post by dochtman »

JupiterMoon wrote: post #14
mbrubeck wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can go to "about:crashes" to get some more information about reported crashes. If you open a crash report and click the "Bugzilla" tab, you can find out if a bug is on file for that specific stack trace.

Cool. I'll check this out next time. Any way to report the disappearing dev tools?

Just file it on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/; you can login with your GitHub credentials.

Re: How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

#20

Post by thomastjeffery »

JupiterMoon wrote: post #11

FF has for me crashed more times in the last week than in the previous year. - Multiple installs on different Linux systems. The last crash was with a clean profile. And then there's the disappearing dev tools - that's fun. EDIT: I hope that there is something weird with my systems. But I fear that the rush to push this out might have been a little hasty. EDIT EDIT Apart from the crashes the new FF has been nice. I'v…

I have been using Firefox for several months, using Windows 10, and several GNU/Linux distributions, different hardware, etc., and have never experienced a crash.

It's definitely something weird to do with your systems, meaning it's a real bug that you are experiencing, and I am not.

So please share crash reports, and file bug reports. Different hardware/software quirks may reveal bugs in Firefox/Linux/drivers/window managers/anything. By submitting a bug report for Firefox, you may be able to help find a video driver bug, etc.

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