Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:50:53 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> Cc: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, Mark Millard via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> Subject: Re: firefox Message-ID: <CAN6yY1um0qJ2VM3MZCKjskze15dGaK69CJ5eaW62Xt9MRoO=zQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALeGphyQ_JMCSW%2B077soqnGsV2rDvTsMhH05MxYS=sBjLZdDBQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <0eeb4921-b8a5-f0f8-f568-80b240a73aec@hawaii-pacific.com> <CEE0E4CC-B366-4A2F-9247-61693B009010@kreme.com> <d64e19b4-2c03-10dd-c2e8-dbd5c88aa258@quip.cz> <CALeGphyQ_JMCSW%2B077soqnGsV2rDvTsMhH05MxYS=sBjLZdDBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:29 AM Jack L. <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 1:32 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote= : > > > > @lbutlr wrote on 2019/08/12 07:08: > > > On 11 Aug 2019, at 20:29, bruce <bruce@hawaii-pacific.com> wrote: > > >> I have tried firefox. It crashes regularly > > > > > > That doesn=E2=80=99t sound right. If Firefox is crashing a lot there = is > something not quite right with your system or install. > > > > I am using Seamonkey on everyday basis. Sometimes my computer is runnin= g > > 20+ days without reboot and Seamonkey running all the time with 5 > > windows and total count of 200+ openned tabs. No crashes at all. > > Firefox crashes instantly after start (even if I delete its profile) > > Palemoon, Qupzilla, Iridium crashes few times a day. > > LibreOffice, Gimp and other apps are running fine. Only browsers are so > > unstable these days. And as you can read I am not alone with this kind > > of experience so I don't think it's just my computer problem. > > > > Miroslav Lachman > > yup, they don't make browsers like they used to I'll probably regret opening this potential can of worms, but I find these reports of instability in Firefox surprising. I have used Firfox as my web browser on FreeBSD for many year, going back to at least Firefox v3 and probably v2. I can't say I've never had it crash, but in the past year I can't recall a single crash on FreeBSD. It has been rock solid. So why is it failing or some people? (I'll note in passing that Firefox has been somewhat less stable on Windows 7 where it seems to crash every couple of weeks. Possibilities include hardware, especially graphics, web sites visited, and Firefox configuration. Lots of tabs may be an issue as I try to keep my open tabs under 20. I can't imagine trying to deal with 200+, but it must eat a lot of resources. That may be tied to the failures reported. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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