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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:29:52 -0500
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com
Message-ID:  <20160610212952.GD14153@rancor.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tCZWD6U8%2BjiAChgeLvyebFQV0DJ5ihizaZDFmORs4N9w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 01:01:42PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 03:42:00PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> > > ...
> > > That sounds bad indeed. Have you tried to reinstall using the official
> > > pkg repository (not compiled on your machine)?
> > >
> > > BTW Firefox 47 just started crashing today for me. Nothing to do with
> > > scripts, some exception in one of the *.c files (according to the
> > > popup). I am now creating a new batch of packages with poudriere and
> > > will try to upgrade to a newer version.
> >
> > Ugh. Mine hasn't crashed, just hung to the point where I have to kill it.
> > Jan has suggested some things for me to try that I plan to do when I get
> > some time. I'll post how that went once I've tried them.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > --
> > Bob Willcox    | Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
> > bob@immure.com | Who knows?  Who cares?
> > Austin, TX     |
> >
> 
> npviewer.bin is not part of firefox. It is a part of nspluginwrapper. If
> you uninstall it and restart firefox, does the problem go away? (Of course,
> you won't be able to view flash.) Have you followed Jan's suggestion to
> re-setup nspluginwrapper? NOTE: It must be installed by you with the UID
> you use to run firefox! Doing it as rot won't work.

I haven't been able to follow Jan's suggestions yet (I'm at work currently).
I had done the setup for nspluginwrapper some time ago, but not since the
system update on 6/4 that sent me down this rat hole. I'll give that a try
first.

Thanks,
Bob

-- 
Bob Willcox    | Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
bob@immure.com | Who knows?  Who cares?
Austin, TX     |



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