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Date:      Sat, 15 Aug 2015 17:58:14 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firefox question
Message-ID:  <20150815155814.GA88726@slackbox.erewhon.home>
In-Reply-To: <55CF4D33.7020804@hiwaay.net>
References:  <55CF4D33.7020804@hiwaay.net>

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 09:36:45AM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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> NetBSD-users list is full of posts about Firefox v40.<whatever>=20
> apparently being a bit flaky. I did a 'pkg version -vRL=3D' this A.M. & i=
t=20
> listed Firefox 40.0_4,1 as upgrade candidate (I'm on 39.0,1 now). Has=20
> anyone tried the newer FF ? Any issues :-) ? I use FF mucho for=20
> browsing, don't need any foul-ups, so fess up :-) !!!! TIA & have a nice=
=20
> weekend.

The initial 40.0_1 was flaky. Subsequent revisions fixed this. Basically by
setting the configuration =E2=80=9Clayers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled=
=E2=80=9D to false
by default. The current portrevision 40.0_5,1 runs fine.

There has been some churn in recent firefox versions;
- A switch back to GTK+2, then allowing GTK+3 again.
- Logging is not longer optional.
- Some platforms have switched to off-main-thread compositioning. This does=
n't
  seem to work well on FreeBSD.


Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/
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