I am running GuixSD on a 2008 model Dell Inspiron with I believe to be
an Intel T5300 core 2 CPU. I have only just started using GuixSD for
less than a year now, and still on the learning curve. So, do you think
the tab crash I see with Icecat could be related to the hardware on my
PC?
On 24.09.2018 16:26, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> writes:
Andreas Enge <[email protected]> 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
