[greggman]

I hope this doesn't come across as negative but why post this on HN? Why not just file a bug on crbug.com? Browsers have bugs, all them. It seems kind of negative to turn it into a spectacle rather than just be kind and report the bug to the team.

[ploxiln]

Browser makers need pressure to prioritize robustness. Otherwise, to be competitive with each other, they will prioritize features much more highly, and we can see the results today. "Browsers have bugs, all of them." ...but we're not talking about very-tricky-to-trigger bugs found a couple of times a year, we're talking about 30 every 6 weeks, in various subsystems.

I was initially turned off from Chrome in its early versions because it seemed that tabs crashed much more easily, since it wasn't as big a deal to have a tab crash. Firefox crashes as a whole, so it has much more motivation to diligently make sure its subsystems are not prone to crashing on high-level documents / languages, however malformed they may be.

But as was posted below, it's still quite easy to lock up Firefox. So I applaud crashfirefox.com as well as this Chrome demonstration, they're needed to keep the balance between robustness and new features.

[jlblatt]

Totally valid, and not negative at all. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9326370

[omaranto]

It seems that the author did file a bug report and it almost immediately got marked WONTFIX:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9326370