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Date:      Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:56:55 -0500
From:      Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>
To:        Richard Susgin <rhs.message@gmail.com>, Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox and Thunderbird freeze system causing a reboot
Message-ID:  <14e94da8-7839-49f7-9447-2157d2a97a6e@foolishgames.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACYo7rYnFx%2BSQkXrUryTg0PsTPZBbSgQtG7V=BSDeudgB6su_A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/9/24 8:28 AM, Richard Susgin wrote:
>
> Hello, curious situation with Mozilla?  I am not developing or 
> debugging at the moment but merely just using. Last week i updated 
> from FreeBSD13.1 to 13.4. Everything working in 13.1 but my FireFox so 
> outdated it was being rejected. After installing everything from 
> packaging and getting Xorg working everything seemed fine. XFCE 
> installed and ran with a few tweaks. Both FF and Thunderbird would not 
> start unless safe mode was invoked. I disabled composting in both and 
> they start and work perfectly sans acceleration. So after checking 
> around i find numerous posts about failing graphics stacks not being 
> able to connect. This may not affect u but it is definitely a thing.
> Is this the end of Xorg and should we be using wayland?
> Rick
>
>
The grass isn't greener in wayland either.  Even on Linux systems, I've 
seen issues with thunderbird running very slow or hanging for periods.  
It seems related to the message viewer code.

-- 

Lucas Holt




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