Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:21:09 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: hw <hw@gc-24.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox or what? Message-ID: <20190812182109.634721dd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de> References: <20190812173754.9bbd34f75885d616ae5d074a@gc-24.de>
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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? Firefix continues to freeze, crash, being unable to > remember its settings, to not show up at all when starting it other > than in the process list, and it usually can't be killed even with > kill -9. I have a FreeBSD 12.0-p7/i386 installation running Firefox 68.0, and I don't have any problems. I even tried "modern" web pages, and even though Firefox sometimes seems to run a bit too slow, no crashes or freezes. But what you're describing rings a bell. Just to make sure you're not suffering from an inconsistent file system, boot your system in single-user mode and perform a forced full fsck on all filesystems, especially those carrying /usr/local and /home. Make sure you have the following setting in /etc/rc.conf: background_fsck="NO" Inconsistent file system can definitely cause the kind of problem you're seeing, so make sure it's not the case. NB: Does only apply to UFS. ;-) > If Firefox is incompatible with FreeBSD, what's the alternative? It isn't. Things that do not build or run on FreeBSD are either marked "BROKEN", or aren't part of the ports collection. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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