Open Bug 1153272 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Considering having CrashSubmit.jsm retry several times before giving up when sending a crash report

Categories

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Crash Reporting
Version:
36 Branch
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: mconley, Unassigned)

Details

Crash reports are super useful. I notice that CrashSubmit.jsm, which (at the very least) the plugin crash report system uses, will only attempt to send a crash report once before giving up.

I'd be curious to know how often sending crash reports fails, and whether or not there'd be any benefit in having it retry several times (maybe exponential back-off over some limited number of attempts) before rejecting the submission promise.
We record crash submission results in FHR:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/crashreporter/CrashSubmit.jsm#310

I don't know where we'd look to find out the rate of failure though.
Severity: normal → S3
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