From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 16 20:27:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2099716A543 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:27:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from radrian1@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD73513C517 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:27:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from radrian1@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so1121853ana for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:27:19 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bmP7sHC0pVI6nmtJCG2TAPZkuP9m/mgt9VB0L3xsQGCNcTCQKc1dE++u70s+7yMETEjbSYCK8KFp7B5uWqYSNBTp+XFW/ERKHisETO5Fh4cAZv1b7x7964gPnEK0HVQ/lqo07XJ/UGb69B7j1H/f39wifWM/A6GNDZeSv9NQukM= Received: by 10.100.11.7 with SMTP id 7mr3459780ank.1168977637950; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:00:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.27.9 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:00:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:00:37 -0500 From: "Radu Adrian Zdrinca" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070116120056.751A716A556@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070116120056.751A716A556@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: rizzo@icir.org Subject: Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 189, Issue 4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:27:20 -0000 On 1/16/07, freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Message: 13 > Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:06:45 -0800 > From: Luigi Rizzo > Subject: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ? > To: stable@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20070116010645.A94849@xorpc.icir.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > [sorry if i don't post this to -ports, but i feel > that this is really a -stable issue as it affects > one widely used port] > > I am not sure if i am the only one, but on RELENG_6, > linux-firefox 2 is basically unusable (see details below), > while linux-firefox 1.5 is at least usable (even though > it has some memory leak so after a while its size grows > well above 3-400MB). > > Would it be possible to resurrect the linux-firefox 1.5 > port (under a separate name) so at least people have a choice > on which set of bugs they prefer ? > > The problems with linux firefox 2.0 are that after a little bit of > browsing (let's say 50-100 pages) some of its threads seem to lock > up, functions on the gui stop working (e.g. clicking on the tabs > does not work anymore) and in the end you have to kill it hard. > > I have submitted a PR with more details. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/107219 > > cheers > luigi > Install 6.2 from cd and don't update the ports. The 1.5 port is there. Only after I updated the ports it installed the new 2.0.0.1 port.