Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:11:21 -0700 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> To: "Pete French" <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox3 from ports? Message-ID: <ab581e310808280711i6768493am7c3f5ea91a31b662@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1KYgFG-000B1s-BH@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <20080828093840.GA22153@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <E1KYgFG-000B1s-BH@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote: >> Has anybody built firefox3 from ports on amd64? >> Any particular problems encountered? > > I had to update my ports (all of them) to the absolute latest > or it would complain about old versiosn, but no problems > *building* it... > > ...running it, however, is another matter. I get chunks of > the screen where it takes part of the bitmap from my desktop > and duplicates it across the space (borders of web pafges > particularly). also printing seems to juust scale the bitmap > fonts so the printout can actually be illegible. > > I also tried with a precompiled package a few days ago, > but the same issues arose. So I've gone back to firefox2 > which actually works. > > -pete. I've had no problems with it as well.
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