Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
The author left off the part where it was invented by a mother and how dentists hate it! &#x2F;s<p>I suppose it <i>technically</i> improves stability, but the cause seems like a flaw in the Windows operating system, if I&#x27;m understanding correctly.<p>&gt; Stalling the main process led to a smaller increase in tab crashes – which are also unpleasant for the user even if not nearly as annoying as a full browser crash – so we’re cutting those down too.<p>I wonder if this has anything to do with my recent experience with Firefox Nightly on macOS.  In the last few weeks I started to experience spontaneous tab crashes that couldn&#x27;t be explained by anything from what I could tell.  I could open a new tab with the exact same page and it would manage to not crash.  Then I noticed Firefox would sometimes prevent me from viewing tabs <i>until</i> I restarted to update the software.  Haven&#x27;t seen it in the last few days, but it was incredibly frustrating.  IMO, Firefox should make a best effort to render a page and not have its core functionality stop working entirely until updating.