From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 10 21:03:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E581065670 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from s.janssen@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6FC8FC14 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:03:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sander.nl (cc1269722-a.ensch1.ov.home.nl [82.75.144.239]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6AKnhL5033846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:49:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from s.janssen@xs4all.nl) Message-ID: <4C38DCCC.80408@xs4all.nl> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:49:16 +0200 From: Sander Janssen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100702) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hartmann, O." References: <4C37C2D7.3000504@xs4all.nl> <4C382326.4090109@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4C382326.4090109@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Firefox problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:03:02 -0000 Hartmann, O. wrote: > On 07/10/10 02:46, Sander Janssen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am currently having the same problems you were having with firefox >> 3.6 on FreeBSD in February (I found the threads on the Freebsd-Ports >> mailing list). The thread doesn't seem to come up with an answer and I >> am wondering if you managed to solve the problem? >> >> I am talking about firefox crashing when you use a context menu. I >> have tried a portupgrade -Rf firefox to try to recompile every depency >> but nothing has any effect. In my case thunderbird works correctly. >> >> Any information would be useful. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Sander > > Hello. > I have still this obscure problems. When "gettext" was updated and we > have had to update any dependend port, within this procedure Firefox 3.6 > worked correctly as expected. But after the update was performed, > everything remained as it was before. I did several times portmaster -f > (which is the same as -R with portupgrade) to build every necessary > port, but with no effect. I also performed the one-day-taking gettext > update and, additionaly, I recompiled every port (nearly 1000 on my > systems). No effect. > When delegating the client firefox to another X terminal, say to my > workstation at home (login with ssh -Y for X11 portforwarding), no > problems occur, so I guess the problem is riggered by X11 on the local > machine and especially with the ATI radeonhd driver (which does not work > correctly on many boxes and with low end Radeon HD 46XX or 47XX cards). > I have no idea. I use Opera for now on the machine in question. > > Regards, > Oliver > Well, I am running a nvidia 7600gs with the proprietary nvidia driver so that doesn't seem to be the problem. I can use the linux-firefox port and that one runs correctly but it crashes when opening flash content (which the normal firefox does fine even though it crashes when I open a context box or open a bookmark). Thanks anyway, Sander