On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:56:31AM +0300, Lars Engblom wrote: > I have several times seen reports about FF crashing. It might have > been here or then on #openbsd (I am not sure where). I thought this > is something everybody knows. I made a misjudgement because I did > not want to send a bug-report for something I thought everybody knew > already. > > What I sent to the list today was not a bug report either, I was > more raising the concern that the maintainer might need more time to > get it stable even though the tree is in lock and no big changes > should be allowed. > > This problem might be related to drivers also. My laptop at home is > using i915, which has seen quite a bit of development during the > latest cycle. I am using amd64 snapshots. The pictures often get > horizontal stripes. HTML5 videos often crashes it completely, so > also a bit more intensive java scripts. > > I can manage with Chromium, as it is not crashing. The problem is > not that big deal for me (although it is annoying). I am more > concerned about the reputation my favorite OS gets if FF gets > released in this shape. > > I am not a good C programmer (my code can be dangerous) and I am > unable of debugging C, but I am willing to do by instruction what > anyone wants me to do in order to help in this case.
You just need to use common sense. - try with a fresh empty profile - try to reset your regular profile (see about:support) - collect backtraces of crashes, open bugs upstream & cc me - gfx issues with pictures are known and have been discussed here, try the various workarounds devised in the archives. (about:config gfx.xrender.enabled, layers.acceleration.enabled, MOZ_DISABLE_IMAGE_OPTIMIZE=1 in the env... see http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=136560946723949&w=2) Of course, i'm using firefox all the time on all my computers, and i dont see such OMGSOUNSTABLE behaviour. It crashes with OOM sometimes with heavy javascript, gobbles all cpu when viewing huge images, but besides that it's totally usable. > >>I have been following snapshots the whole time and this problems in FF > >>has been since the spring. Yeah, great timing to come whining... nothing will happen for 5.4. Landry
