@JensSpahnpasta__dup_9958@feddit.org
10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
2026-03-06 07:59 UTC
Replies (23)
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@W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2026-03-06 09:06
Firefox kept crashing on me a few days ago. Decided to run MemTest86 and sure enough. Bad RAM.
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@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-06 08:56
This is how dev humblebrag sounds like. Our app is so stable only random hardware events like bitflips can crash it.
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@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2026-03-06 10:38
Guess Linus was right again to only use ECC RAM.
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@datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-06 16:09
Technically every that happens on a computer is a bit flip 😏
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@OwOarchist@pawb.social 2026-03-06 08:25
\*interest in parity-checking server RAM intensifies\*
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@xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2026-03-06 08:27
Well, that's unnerving.
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-03-06 12:21
I flip my bits looking at porn using FireFox and that shit almost never crashes 🤷♂️
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@Delusion6903@discuss.online 2026-03-06 21:19
I really don't remember the last time Firefox crashed on me and I've been using it for many years
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@reddig33@lemmy.world 2026-03-06 08:32
Wouldn’t that mean ten percent of all crashes in all apps would be caused by bit flips? What makes Firefox special?
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@Bitflip@lemmy.ml 2026-03-07 02:01
Figures, sorry.
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@GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2026-03-06 13:23
What makes Firefox more susceptible to bitflips than any other software? Wouldn't that mean that 10% of all software crashes are caused by bitflips and it just depends what software you are running when that happens.
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@BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2026-03-07 14:22
And ECC memory still isn't standard in PC computers
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@Toes@ani.social 2026-03-07 15:14
I used to be a part of an anticheat dev team and we discovered that this was a common problem back in the Windows XP era. We added a routine to check the memory addresses used after a crash and notified the user if we suspected hardware failure. At the time we suspected unstable overclocks because the metrics showed us the computers affected were typically overclocked as well.
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@webkitten@piefed.social 2026-03-07 13:45
The 90% are caused by Fhqwhgads.
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@postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2026-03-07 13:52
How many are caused by reddit trashing the Back stack?
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@PokerChips@programming.dev 2026-03-07 02:34
The other 90% can be contained with containers and temporary containers and tab suspender
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@Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-06 08:51
Lol
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@toddestan@lemmy.world 2026-03-06 22:29
ECC memory and server hardware in general is surprisingly cheap if you're fine buying used gear that's a few years old. Once that stuff gets old enough that it's being cycled out of data centers en masse, it hits the used market and the supply often exceeds the limited demand for that kind of stuff. With that said, I don't know if that's true at the moment.
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@W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2026-03-06 17:00
Luckily for me, I was already running 64GB so now I’m down to 32GB. I can try to wait it out. -_- I don’t really need that much anyway, but I’m glad I had it when it was cheap
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@BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2026-03-07 14:24
In practice preftct programs do exist, they just have to be small enough to do formal verification
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@Retail4068@lemmy.world 2026-03-07 11:50
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@Retail4068@lemmy.world 2026-03-07 13:01
Sorry let me correct. Use cases that normal people give two fucks about and based on reality.
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@Retail4068@lemmy.world 2026-03-07 14:12