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"George Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm told that the reason we don't have a firefox package is due to
> DTrace.

"firefox" package was masked on 12.0-CURRENT for 1 week due 2 regressions
since then fixed. Other FreeBSD release are unaffected.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313504
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/433889
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/433904

> If so, please point me at active bugs in this area.

Firefox is affected by a few more DTrace issues but those are old and
have been worked around in the ports tree.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214556 # dtrace on aarch64
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041353 # dtrace vs. ld.gold
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702179 # dtrace vs. static libs