Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>> I have seen similar behaviour on a Thinkpad T60 with an x86_64 CPU
>>> (upgraded from the i686 CPU that it came with).  Icecat tabs crash and
>>> it can be avoided only by disabling all extensions.
>>>
>>> I don’t know what the cause is.
>>
>> This is weird. I have not experienced it, and I just tried to load the
>> homedepot.com website, which does not pose any problem.
>
> I don’t see this on other x86_64 machines; among those computers that I
> have access to, only the T60 is affected, which is why I thought it
> might simply be a hardware problem.
>
>> Could it be related to memory consumption and, for instance, the number
>> of open tabs?
>
> No, this happens with just one tab.  I found that I couldn’t get it to
> crash with a simply static website like https://elephly.net, but it
> would crash somewhat reliably with sites that embed media.

There’s a bug report about crashes on i686:
https://issues.guix.info/issue/29736

FWIW this is the same T60, just before the upgrade to an x86_64 CPU.
Nothing else on that laptop has been changed since that bug report.

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Ricardo