Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:34:08 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Cc: frank@shute.org.uk, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox crashes on yahoo.com Message-ID: <20090628103408.GA42130@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4A472FAB.4090305@gmail.com> References: <4A45D1C5.9060508@gmail.com> <20090628081953.GA41840@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4A472FAB.4090305@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 02:24:03PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > Have you tried Firefox3.5? It's in ports as www/firefox3-devel. > > > > I just tried Yahoo! and had no problems. I tried yahoo with firefox3 on 7.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 without problems. > The problem is not restricted to firefox or yahoo.com. There are other > sites too where this happens. I built Galeon from ports, and it shows > exactly the same behaviour as firefox2/firefox3 for those sites. So does > Epiphany (installed from the distribution media). > > I doubt whether firefox-3.5 could solve the problem. This seems to be a > problem with a core library in X or one of the graphics libraries. Are your ports up-to-date? Use portsnap(8) [first time: 'portsnap fetch extract', afterwards 'portsnap fetch update'] to update your ports tree and then portmaster(8) ['portmaster -a -B -d']. If your ports are up-to-date, try rebuilding libX11 and the ports it depends on ['portmaster -f -x libX11']. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpHRx8ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWOrwCeM37p/xtvXveemFH/gzsWK1au /BcAn3PprI30qRXhESh78t3XltjdeVXQ =swQ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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