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Gabriele Svelto · 14w
In the last week we received ~470000 crash reports, these do not represent all crashes because it's an opt-in system, the real number of crashes will be several times larger. Still, out of these ~2500...
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In other words up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects! If I subtract crashes that are caused by resource exhaustion (such as out-of-memory crashes) this number goes up to around 15%. This is a bit skewed because users with flaky hardware will crash more often than users with functioning machines, but even then this dwarfs all the previous estimates I saw regarding this problem. 3/5
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Gabriele Svelto · 14w
And to reinforce this estimate I've looked at the numbers we got from the users who run the memory tester after having experienced a crash: for every two crashes we think are caused by a bit-flip the memory tester found one genuine hardware issue. Keep in mind that this is not doing an extensive tes...