More crash stats from linux

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If you look at mozilla's crash reported and peek at the crashes Thunderbird get, you'll see that the number of crashes is very low on Linux. That's because people use the packaged version of Thunderbird on Linux which is slightly different from the official release one (so they don't give us build symbols and disable the crash reporter). So from a QA and dev perspective we are loosing a lot of crash information , because we think we have a good Linux installed base. This is about to change, as one of the Major Linux distribution (SUSE Linux and it's sister openSUSE) are about to send us all those crashes that are happening. This won't be in the 11.3 releases per-se, but it will be from any update package that user will install from now on. Thanks Wolfir for making this happen !

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[T]he number of crashes is very low on Linux. That's because people use the packaged version of Thunderbird on Linux...

How sure are you about this? From my experience as a user (on linux, of versions with crash reporting), it seems more likely to be because Thunderbird just doesn't crash, ever.

:)

Are they about to do this to Firefox packages as well?
I think they do. But the maintainer and I only talked about Thunderbird. But both Ff and TB use the same build scripts so it should be coming soon.
Any progress from *buntu distros too?
Both openSUSE and Ubuntu maintainers talked to :luser while at the summit so things should be happening there to as it should come on the fedora side too - but I'm only sure about SUSE.

That's awesome! Any progress from *buntu distros too?

Are they about to do this to Firefox packages as well?

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