I am extremely excited because we're testing a new system to detect #Firefox crashes caused by bad memory.
We're currently finding a very high correlation between potential bit-flips detected by this system and crashes we thought were caused by bad hardware.
This will help us in two ways: we'll be able to avoid spending time looking at those crashes and we might also inform users that their memory went bad and they need to have their machines checked.
This would be a good idea, can the same feature be built in to all Linux based systems, as bad hardware has all sorts of odd effects, or can do.
@zleap we can do this because we collect crashes. Most other applications don't. What Linux distros could do though is ship Memtest86+ by default as a boot option, so users can check their machines if they experience hard-to-explain instability.
Ah ok, I will run a check on my system at some point to see if there are any issues.
But thanks
