Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 17 hours agoYou can’t effect the number of bit flips your users hardware has, but you can affect how often buggy code corrupts their memory or otherwise crashes your program.
Let’s say any app will crash about once a year on my machine due to a bit flip. If the app is crap and crashes hundreds of times for other reasons, the bit flip is irrelevant. If the app is robust enough that the bit flip accounts for 10 % of the crashes, that basically means the app is pretty much never crashing due to poor code.
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
That’s the way people should be looking at it. It basically means hard crashes are extremely rare in the firefox ecosystem.
To be fair, I can’t remember the last time a browser crashed on me in general.
caschb@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’ve had Safari of all things crash on me a couple of times. Still, not enough to actually be disruptive.