Online dashboard to show Chrome crashes worldwide

[Anonymous User]

I think it would be kind of neat if there were an online dashboard showing all of Chrome's crashes in the past 24 hours (and older history) worldwide, maybe even on a map with counters (counting whole-browser crashes, tab crashes, extension crashes, etc.), live as the reports are received by Google servers. Chrome: yes, it does crash, it does have bugs, it isn't perfect, but it's still good!

[PhistucK]

What benefit would it provide (other than transparency)?

What do you expect people to do with this information?

☆PhistucK

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Anonymous User <93M4Q...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think it would be kind of neat if there were an online dashboard showing all of Chrome's crashes in the past 24 hours (and older history) worldwide, maybe even on a map with counters (counting whole-browser crashes, tab crashes, extension crashes, etc.), live as the reports are received by Google servers. Chrome: yes, it does crash, it does have bugs, it isn't perfect, but it's still good!

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What benefit would it provide (other than transparency)?

 

Well, yeah, as you say, transparency could be one of the reasons.

What do you expect people to do with this information?

Firstly, it could help everyone see how many crashes are caused by what. Secondly, it reminds us all that Chrome isn't perfect and has its moments too.

[PhistucK]

In order to understand the "caused by what", someone needs to analyze a stack trace and describe it in simple words. I hardly believe Google will hire someone to do that for a report.

If you had access to the Monorail API, you could have searched for Stability: Crash and perhaps show the common fixed crashes. Not sure how valuable that would be.

Some crashes are sometimes security issues, so exposing unresolved crashes can lead to further exploits. Not a great outcome.

It does not sound too helpful to the common user. Researchers can find some of this information using Monorail queries. Geographical data is unavailable, but I am not sure it is much meaningful anyway.

☆PhistucK