Comments on: One day… http://whereswalden.com/2009/07/09/one-day/ Mozilla, politics, economics, law, backpacking, cycling, and other random desiderata Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:03:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Neil http://whereswalden.com/2009/07/09/one-day/comment-page-1/#comment-135250 Neil Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:48:19 +0000 http://whereswalden.com/?p=871#comment-135250 I can't speak for the other platforms, but Windows just-in-time debugging is great for this - pop in to the debugger, step around the crash, detach debugger, job done! [Given that most of the time the crash attachments I accidentally load are in JITted code after invariants have been violated, with complex stack unwinding to do, it's usually not quite that simple, unfortunately. Also, it's moot for me as I'm not running Windows right now; I don't think similar functionality exists on OS X. Linux might be better, but unfortunately it's not an option as I then couldn't run OS X, at least not without dual-booting, and I've become too used to <abbr title="virtual machines">VMs</abbr> to do that.] I can’t speak for the other platforms, but Windows just-in-time debugging is great for this – pop in to the debugger, step around the crash, detach debugger, job done!

[Given that most of the time the crash attachments I accidentally load are in JITted code after invariants have been violated, with complex stack unwinding to do, it's usually not quite that simple, unfortunately. Also, it's moot for me as I'm not running Windows right now; I don't think similar functionality exists on OS X. Linux might be better, but unfortunately it's not an option as I then couldn't run OS X, at least not without dual-booting, and I've become too used to VMs to do that.]

]]> By: Edward Lee http://whereswalden.com/2009/07/09/one-day/comment-page-1/#comment-135237 Edward Lee Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:00:37 +0000 http://whereswalden.com/?p=871#comment-135237 You must want Electrolysis! [Come to think of it, actually, yes, yes I do for this purpose!] You must want Electrolysis!

[Come to think of it, actually, yes, yes I do for this purpose!]

]]> By: Gijs http://whereswalden.com/2009/07/09/one-day/comment-page-1/#comment-135232 Gijs Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:17:23 +0000 http://whereswalden.com/?p=871#comment-135232 Pff, I am not fast enough, that much is clear. Anyway, submit a feature request for the bugmail add-on for Thunderbird? (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/9584) If it's asking for bug data anyway, that info should be extractable, too, I think, and it could modify the link for you, or at least display a warning in the info bar it shows... (would that stop you? :-) ) Pff, I am not fast enough, that much is clear. Anyway, submit a feature request for the bugmail add-on for Thunderbird? (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/9584) If it’s asking for bug data anyway, that info should be extractable, too, I think, and it could modify the link for you, or at least display a warning in the info bar it shows… (would that stop you? :-) )

]]> By: Gijs http://whereswalden.com/2009/07/09/one-day/comment-page-1/#comment-135231 Gijs Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:57:36 +0000 http://whereswalden.com/?p=871#comment-135231 Makes you think though... surely it would be trivial to have a greasemonkey script (or even something in Bugzilla itself!) that prompts you if you click attachments that are not of type "patch" to bugs that have the "crash" keyword, or "crash" in the summary? :-) "Are you sure you want to lose your browsing session? [Crash plz] [No, thanks]" [See Jesse's suggestion above. :-) ] Makes you think though… surely it would be trivial to have a greasemonkey script (or even something in Bugzilla itself!) that prompts you if you click attachments that are not of type “patch” to bugs that have the “crash” keyword, or “crash” in the summary? :-)

“Are you sure you want to lose your browsing session? [Crash plz] [No, thanks]”

[See Jesse's suggestion above. :-) ]

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://whereswalden.com/2009/07/09/one-day/comment-page-1/#comment-135230 Jesse Ruderman Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:46:15 +0000 http://whereswalden.com/?p=871#comment-135230 Sounds like a job for a Greasemonkey script. [Maybe. It'd have to intercept the page before it loaded, tho, because this usually happens when I click a link in bugmail in Thunderbird, in which case there's no link-click to intercept. Could write a Thunderbird extension for that, I guess...] Sounds like a job for a Greasemonkey script.

[Maybe. It'd have to intercept the page before it loaded, tho, because this usually happens when I click a link in bugmail in Thunderbird, in which case there's no link-click to intercept. Could write a Thunderbird extension for that, I guess...]

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