A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5
No, they’re saying Firefox uses so much ram they’re far far more likely to be a victim!
Laughs in
Memory: 46.84 GiB / 62.72 GiB (75%)with (probably) several hundred tabs open