On Monday morning we (Mozilla) detected a very large crash spike affecting #Firefox users on Linux, specifically on an older version of a Debian-based distribution. It turned out to be an interesting bug involving the #Linux kernel and #Google JavaScript code so let me tell you about it. A thread 🧵

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    1 year ago

    Everybody seemed to crash while searching for images on Google.

    I’m experiencing this with Q4OS 3 (Centaurus), which under the hood is Debian 10 (Buster) – and with the supposedly more stable Firefox ESR.

    (Now using DuckDuckGo as an image search workaround.)