Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:21:49 -0700 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: firefox core-dump on 10.1-RELEASE? Message-ID: <CAGBmCT7r%2Bs0c4%2BK1fw5Lh-VmPPCJtEv0SMM=agb3VaXvUYmhtg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150812002205.GB82089@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <CAGBmCT4oP0pwP%2B7A-CAeRs18t7yJcy-oXOBkkjijc4DUryAOag@mail.gmail.com> <20150812002205.GB82089@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On Aug 11, 2015 5:22 PM, "Roland Smith" <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:08:26PM -0700, pete wright wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently upgraded firefox on my 10.1-RELEASE workstation via pkg and > > now have periodic core dumps. I was wondering if anyone else has > > observed this behaviour? If not I will attempt to get a debug build > > created locally and try to reproduce the fault. Here's my info: > > Yep, more people have noticed it. > > > > uname -ar && pkg info |grep firefox > > FreeBSD pop.rubicorp.com 10.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: > > Wed May 13 06:54:13 UTC 2015 > > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > > firefox-40.0,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla > > A temporary fix is implemented in 40.0_1,1; it works pretty well; have only > had one crash since. > > But today the port was updated to 40.0_2,1, and 40.0_3,1 which failed to link > for me. It seems that firefox is once again churning a little bit, as it > sometimes does. > > Since firefox is quite a big build, I tend to make a package of the installed > version before upgrading, so I can always go back if it works. > Thanks Roland for the reply. Fwiw to close this thread out - here is the fix mentioned in the previous twitter "use about:config and set layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false." This has done the trick for me so far. Cheers, -pete
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