2018-05-15 10:57 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>:
> Hi Pjotr, > > Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis: > > > So I have been using Icecate for 10 days. It is frustrating because it > > does crash every other hour on some JS load. The error always looks like > > > > Extension error: SyntaxError: in strict mode code, functions may be > declared only at top level or immediately within another function > resource://gre/modules/ExtensionUtils.jsm -> > moz-extension://73353d04-3869-453b-8b9b-f71ceaae6e26/polyfill.js 63 > > [[Exception stack > > Current stack > > runSafeSyncWithoutClone@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionUtils.jsm:25:110 > > tryInject@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.jsm:197:9 > > execute@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.jsm:273:5 > > trigger@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionContent.jsm:463:11 > > DocumentManager.observe@resource://gre/modules/ > ExtensionContent.jsm:342:7 > > ]] > > > > I only have noscript and adblock plus installed and running. Any ideas? > > Did you check on the “about:home” page whether other things were > enabled? Also, is the JS error above fatal? JS is designed to keep > going in spite of errors (really!), so it could be that the thing above > doesn’t matter. > > FWIW, I’ve been using IceCat (actually mostly Conkeror, but it’s the > same thing) for a long time and I’ve rarely experienced crashes. I’m > surprised the experience is that bad for you. Is this on GuixSD? > > > I think I'll go to FF again if this persists. > > IceCat is essentially the same code as FireFox modulo branding, add-ons, > and a few trivial things. I don’t see how IceCat itself could be > blamed—the add-ons maybe, the way it is packaged in Guix perhaps, but > IceCat?… > > Ludo’. > > There was a bug in earlier Firefox, might that be that IceCat doesn't have the fix for that yet? I don't know how much IceCat is delayed to Firefox. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24573061/uncaught-syntaxerror-in-strict-mode-code-functions-can-only-be-declared-at-top, see the last comment.
