In this paper, we propose a method to help users avoid bugs in GUI applications. In particular, users would use the application normally and report bugs that they encounter to prevent anyone -including themselves -from encountering those bugs again. When a user attempts an action that has led to problems in the past, he/she will receive a warning and will be given the opportunity to abort the actionthus avoiding the bug altogether and keeping the application stable. Of course, bugs should be

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... ed eventually by the application developers, but our approach allows application users to collaboratively help each other avoid bugs -thus making the application more usable in the meantime. We demonstrate this approach using our "Stabilizer" prototype. We also include a preliminary evaluation of the Stabilizer's bug prediction.