Aw, snap! What if Every Tab Crashes?

Update: I wrote a more comprehensive post about troubleshooting browser crashes. For a small number of users of Chromium-based browsers (including Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge) on Windows 10, after updating to 78.0.3875.0, every new tab crashes immediately when the browser starts. Impacted users can open as many new tabs as they like, butContinue reading “Aw, snap! What if Every Tab Crashes?”

Cookies and Concurrency, Redux

Note: This post concerns Edge Legacy (aka Spartan) and does not apply to the modern Chromium-based Edge. In yesterday’s episode, I shared the root cause of a bug that can cause document.cookie to incorrectly return an empty string if the cookie is over 1kb and the cookie grows in the middle of a DOM document.cookieContinue reading “Cookies and Concurrency, Redux”

Troubleshooting Windows 10 Bluescreens

I recently bought a Dell XPS 8900 desktop system with Windows 10. It ran okay for a while, but after enabling Hyper-V, every few minutes the system would freeze for a few seconds and then reboot with no explanation. Looking at the Event Viewer’s Windows Logs > System revealed that the system had bugchecked (blueContinue reading “Troubleshooting Windows 10 Bluescreens”