Firefox dies unexpectedly.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 14:50 -0400, Derrick Edwards wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 11:34, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 
> 	I took CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops out of /etc/make.conf and recompiled 
> all my ports. Firefox still dies on nfl.com. I am stumped. 

Remove your browser plug-ins.  Almost all Firefox crashes are not
Firefox's fault, but rather that of a plug-in.  With a site like
NFL.com, it's most likely Flash, but you should try it without any
plug-ins first.

And you should never build Firefox with -funroll-loops.

Joe

> Derrick
> 
> 
> > Derrick Edwards wrote:
> >  > I have CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops in /etc/make.conf
> >  > Would this do any damage?
> >
> > Yes.  You should either remove that line completely,
> > or reduce -O2 to -O, or add -fno-strict-aliasing to it.
> > Note that the default is:
> >
> > -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
> >
> > If you use -O2 without -fno-strict-aliasing, then you
> > get problems in programs which are not aliasing-clean.
> >
> > The best solution is probably to just remove the CFLAGS
> > line from your /etc/make.conf, then rebuild everything.
> >
> > Best regards
> >    Oliver
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