From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Apr 20 03:58:14 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F10F9F0DE for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:58:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dreamchaser.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6A4872BFE for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:58:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w3K3w5sd040766; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:58:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Subject: Re: Problems With Running Firefox Under Xfce To: B J , freebsd-questions References: Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org From: Gary Aitken Message-ID: <09022b01-da91-f4cd-8f6b-14f2dc646837@dreamchaser.org> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:57:25 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:58:05 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:58:14 -0000 On 04/19/18 21:04, B J wrote: > I've got the current version of Xfce installed on an older HP laptop. > Unfortunately, the latest version of Firefox is proving to be a major > headache. > > Ever since the "new and improved" FF was introduced, I've been > unimpressed with its performance. Tabs often crash, if they even load > at all. On top of that, every time I open a new tab or window, I end > up with several FF processes running simultaneously. > > The final straw came this morning when I had problems with accessing > the Internet. The cause, it seemed, was a router on its last legs. I > obtained a Cisco DPC3825 modem/router from the Internet service and > I've been having a terrible time with it. > > It seems that the Internet service has been dropping out about every > hour or so today, which isn't entirely surprising. We've been having > some spring weather for the past few days and it seems that each year > at this time, the Internet service becomes wobbly. (That also happens > whenever there's a major downpour during the summer.) > > Whenever that happened, I switch off the power to the modem/router, > let it set for a minute or so, and then switch it on again. It often > takes several minutes for access to be restored. The only problem is > that my laptop can't make a connection while my older iMac can. > > I've run bsdconfig each time and it appears that the network interface > is enabled, but that doesn't help with the laptop. It seems that the > only way I can restore access is to reboot the machine and that is > rather a nuisance. When I had a separate modem and router, that never > happened. > > Does anyone have any suggestions to resolve this? Thank you. I used to have a similar sort of problem, not exactly the same. Rather than rebooting, have you tried re-initing or re-starting just the appropriate processes? As I recall, I usually got my situation resolved by re-establishing my firewall rules using "sh ipfw_rules" or something like that. I never did figure out why it was dropping out, but it happened under similar circumstances. Gary