From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: How to make current icecat less crashy Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 00:08:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20161104040846.GB5474@jasmine> References: <8737j86nev.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2VoD-0005ef-PU for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:08:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Vo8-0006ra-RL for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:08:53 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:37770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Vo8-0006rK-NU for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:08:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: David Craven Cc: help-guix@gnu.org On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:35:29AM +0100, David Craven wrote: > > Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat. > > How recent is this? Could it be related to this commit? > > eaf72e218e38c0c908ee30c914ab7d9c0c0389b8 > Author: David Craven > Date: Wed Oct 26 14:27:15 2016 +0200 > > gnu: icecat: Enable gtk3 support. > > * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat)[inputs]: Add gtk+. > [arguments]: Use --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3. Good question. I don't use Guix's IceCat regularly but I was able to reproduce the crashes within 5 minutes of browsing sites that contained lots of videos, GIFs, images, etc.