Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:57:10 +0200 From: hw <hw@adminart.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox or what? Message-ID: <87wofi17jd.fsf@toy.adminart.net> In-Reply-To: <20190812160212.GB13685@bastion.zyxst.net> (tech-lists@zyxst.net's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:02:12 %2B0100") References: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de> <20190812160212.GB13685@bastion.zyxst.net>
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tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> writes: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 05:37:54PM +0200, hw wrote: >>Hi, >> >>does any of the Firefox versions that can be installed with pkg >>actually work? Firefix continues to freeze, crash, being unable to >>remember its settings, to not show up at all when starting it other >>than in the process list, and it usually can't be killed even with >>kill -9. >> >>If Firefox is incompatible with FreeBSD, what's the alternative? > > The version I'm using is 68.0.1 and freebsd is 12-stable r350717 and I have no > firefox issues. > > I'm using pkg but I build my own packages with poudriere-devel. > > Need more information from you regarding the issue before even guessing what > might be wrong. What version of firefox is installed? if installed from > packages, what does pkg info | grep firefox say? What freebsd version? > Anything in /var/log/messages that might indicate a firefox problem? What's > the spec of the machine? > > Saying all that, have a look at the last suggestion (dated 2019-08-03 14:48:49 > UTC) on this thread it might be useful: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228855#c11 Well, see my previous posts --- and this is like the next issue as I was afraid of ... All this tells me that FreeBSD is a bad choice for the purpose.
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