From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 12 15:48:08 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07F4B72D0 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:48:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 466gGv52Jjz4VrN for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1565624888; x=1568216888; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=O+5St5Wc/RWkw7ThoHa28UGQqEBgEYrYnJQJQRA4dNE=; b=mcBYftJNNQ3qrO7+nuBNoX+uxZlungvFCtDt4VivMFZXJGP5w0fiBTqUVijTwOyCM9mJ4XFHDI4w0ZnVIn/BoJ5wZLAPkWnsfWQbryIngQ8DWfJymduxv7o8wsC9Kn7KUYPMZiLH0Sjm/ck4jd+PIPps6lZ5YBl16XlpNKpkp8Y= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xYjcwMDAwMDI3NzU3YmEuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r4.h.in.socketlabs.com (s1-b40f.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.180.15]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:48:02 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r4.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:48:02 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1hxCYC-000OGd-JE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:48:00 +0100 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:48:00 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox or what? Message-Id: <20190812164800.1bc5581b40de9436a977ea02@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de> References: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 466gGv52Jjz4VrN X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=mcBYftJN; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.00 / 15.00]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.83)[-0.831,0]; FORGED_SENDER(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.98)[-0.984,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.989,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; FORGED_SENDER_VERP_SRS(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; IP_SCORE(-0.19)[ip: (-0.52), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(-0.22), asn: 7381(-0.17), country: US(-0.05)]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; ENVFROM_VERP(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:48:08 -0000 On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:37:54 +0200 hw wrote: > Hi, > > does any of the Firefox versions that can be installed with pkg > actually work? Yes I've been using Firefox on FreeBSD for a very long time now, always installed from packages. Currently I'm running Firefox 68.01 on FreeBSD 12 with no problems at all. > Firefix continues to freeze, crash, being unable to > remember its settings, None of this. > to not show up at all when starting it other > than in the process list, Not sure what this means, I usually start it from a small script in .wmx (that's just how my window manager works) that just runs /usr/local/bin/firefox. Just typing firefox at a command prompt also works fine. > and it usually can't be killed even with > kill -9. Never seen that, and my home directory is NFS mounted. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith