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Date:      Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:28:41 +0200
From:      Evilham <contact@evilham.com>
To:        hw <hw@gc-24.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox or what?
Message-ID:  <16d0277d-e798-4cb1-9062-a7c450e71b1a@yggdrasil.evilham.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de>
References:  <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de>

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On dl., ag. 12 2019, hw@gc-24.de 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?

Confirming what others said: Firefox works just fine at least in 
12-RELEASE and 13-CURRENT.

Cherry on top of the pie: I even managed to recompile it in 
poudriere with sndio support (and no alsa / pulseaudio) and even 
like that it works beautifully :-).
--
Evilham



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