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Learn more about crash reporting in Camino 2 [http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2009/11/09/crash-reporting-redux/ here].
 
Learn more about crash reporting in Camino 2 [http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2009/11/09/crash-reporting-redux/ here].
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If you crash and do not see the Camino Crash Reporter (but instead see something like the screenshots in the [[#Mac OS X Crash Reporter|Mac OS X Crash Reporter]] section below), for some reason the Camino Crash Reporter didn’t work.
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Using [http://homepage.mac.com/lthompson.22/applescript/scripts/get-crash-report.scpt.zip this AppleScript] from [http://homepage.mac.com/lthompson.22/applescript/forcamino.html Lisa Thompson], the Camino community’s resident AppleScripting guru, you can have easy access to Camino crash reports handled by the Mac OS X Crash Reporter; select the desired crash and the script will copy the report data to the clipboard.
  
 
==Mac OS X Crash Reporter==
 
==Mac OS X Crash Reporter==

Revision as of 19:16, 29 March 2011

Camino Crash Reporter

The Camino Crash Reporter (aka Breakpad), default in Camino 2 and above)

Reporter.png

Learn more about crash reporting in Camino 2 here.


If you crash and do not see the Camino Crash Reporter (but instead see something like the screenshots in the Mac OS X Crash Reporter section below), for some reason the Camino Crash Reporter didn’t work.

Using this AppleScript from Lisa Thompson, the Camino community’s resident AppleScripting guru, you can have easy access to Camino crash reports handled by the Mac OS X Crash Reporter; select the desired crash and the script will copy the report data to the clipboard.

Mac OS X Crash Reporter

The Mac OS X Crash Reporter (default on Intel Macs prior to Camino 2)

crashreporter-10.5-initial.png

(Clicking the “Report…” button displays the following window)

crashreporter-10.5-report.png