Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:31:55 +0530 From: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: frank@shute.org.uk, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com Message-ID: <4A4777D3.5030301@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090628103408.GA42130@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <4A45D1C5.9060508@gmail.com> <20090628081953.GA41840@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4A472FAB.4090305@gmail.com> <20090628103408.GA42130@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:24:03PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: >>> Have you tried Firefox3.5? It's in ports as www/firefox3-devel. >>> >>> I just tried Yahoo! and had no problems. > > I tried yahoo with firefox3 on 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 without problems. > >> The problem is not restricted to firefox or yahoo.com. There are other >> sites too where this happens. I built Galeon from ports, and it shows >> exactly the same behaviour as firefox2/firefox3 for those sites. So does >> Epiphany (installed from the distribution media). >> >> I doubt whether firefox-3.5 could solve the problem. This seems to be a >> problem with a core library in X or one of the graphics libraries. > > Are your ports up-to-date? Use portsnap(8) [first time: 'portsnap fetch > extract', afterwards 'portsnap fetch update'] to update your ports tree and > then portmaster(8) ['portmaster -a -B -d']. > > If your ports are up-to-date, try rebuilding libX11 and the ports it > depends on ['portmaster -f -x libX11']. > > Roland Hi Roland, I traced the problem. It's related to flash. When I disable the flash plugin, Firefox works smoothly. I suspect a lot of sites are using a new version of flash, which doesn't go down well with the existing browsers. I run portsnap and portmaster through a daily cron, so the ports directory is always up-to-date. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.pointer@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won.
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