Subj : A new crash reporter for Firefox
To   : All
From : LWN.net
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 15:15:05

A new crash reporter for Firefox

Date:
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:10:53 +0000

Description:
On April 23, Mozilla announced that Firefox's crash reporter has been 
rewritten in Rust, allowing the
project to address a backlog of issues. Even though it is important to 
properly handle main process crashes, the crash
reporter hasn't received significant development in a while (aside from
development to ensure that crash reports and telemetry continue to reliably be
delivered)! It has long been stuck in a local maximum of "good enough" and
"scary to maintain": it features 3 individual GUI implementations (for 
Windows,
GTK+ for Linux, and macOS), glue code abstracting a few things (mostly in C++,
and Objective-C for macOS), a binary blob produced by obsoleted Apple
development tools, and no test suite. Because of this, there is a backlog of
features and improvements which haven't been acted on.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/971006/


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