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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 🧵

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 🧵

  • @Spectacle8011A
    13•1 year ago

    but browser should not crash what ever some website does.

    Sometimes crashing would be better than trying to beat wonky code into shape: https://samy.pl/myspace/tech.html

    1. Sweet! Now we can do javascript with single quotes. However, myspace strips out the word “javascript” from ANYWHERE. To get around this, some browsers will actually interpret “java\nscript” as “javascript” (that’s java<NEWLINE>script). Example: <div id=“mycode” expr=“alert(‘hah!’)” style=“background:url(‘java script:eval(document.all.mycode.expr)’)”>

    But on principle I agree. I can’t say whether Google Images works or not on my Firefox browser, because I’m using Mojeek.

    • @monobot@lemmy.ml
      3•1 year ago

      True, sometimes it is unavoidable.

      But this looks like kernel issue, it is fixed in kernel 4.20.