On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 5:58:58 PM UTC+10, Paul Adenot wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016, at 07:33 AM, Gerald Squelart wrote:
> > Sitting on the shoulders of giants, an idea, in the unlikely case it's
> > not been thought of yet:
> > How about an assertion that files a crash report (or something lighter
> > like a telemetry blip) but does not actually crash?
> 
> I think you can do that with telemetry, we do that, for example, when we
> encounter a severe failure when trying to open audio devices [0], trying
> to get a sense of how frequent it is in the field.
> 
> Cheer,
> Paul.
> 
> [0]:
> http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/media/GraphDriver.cpp#595

Nice one Paul.

But I was hoping for something easier and more flexible than telemetry, where I 
can just write an assertion, and something will land in Socorro when it fails, 
but without crashing Firefox.

Cheers,
Gerald
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