Why Firefox Crashes on Linux Image Search: Hidden Kernel & AI Code Bug

Mozilla discovered that Firefox crashes on Linux, especially older Debian‑based distributions, whenever users perform an image search on Google; the issue stems from a recent AI‑generated JavaScript function allocating excessive variables, exposing a Linux kernel stack‑limit bug that was fixed in kernel 4.20.

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