11.25.08

November Crashes

Posted in Camino at 2:13 pm by Smokey

It occurred to me this morning that many of you may be eager to upgrade to the latest nightlies in order to try out all of the new features we’ve been landing in Camino.

Unfortunately, there are also a couple of known crashers in Gecko 1.9.0 that are currently unfixed which will disproportionately affect Camino users and may adversely impact your experience when trying nightlies with these new features. Unless you’re running Mac OS X 10.5 on an Intel Mac, you may want to wait a bit longer before trying one of these nightly builds.

• Beginning with the November 15 nightly, there is a crash related to JavaScript that affects PPC Macs. This crash may appear “random” to you, on startup or during pageload, but from all accounts it affects a wide variety of websites. This crash is still under heavy investigation.
• There is a crash related to drawing form buttons on web pages that affects users of Mac OS X 10.4. This crash also appears to strike at random, as not every page with form buttons will trigger the crash. Using the Tab Overview feature may trigger this crash more often than simply visiting web pages. This crash probably affects all Camino 2.0a1pre and Camino 2.0b1pre versions, as well as Camino 2.0a1. The good news on this crash is that there is a probable patch that is currently “baking” on Gecko 1.9.1, so if the patch proves itself there, it should be checked in on Gecko 1.9.0 for Camino 2 nightlies.

We apologize to all of you eager to try our new features who are instead experiencing these crashes (particularly those of you on Mac OS X 10.4 on PPC Macs who are currently doubly cursed) and hope you will bear with us as we work with Gecko developers to get these crashes fixed for future Camino nightlies.

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