Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com

Tue Jun 7 13:30:55 UTC 2016

Bob,

I bet your problems are related to building from ports. I used to have 
lots of troubles when trying to build directly from the ports tree or 
using portmaster/portupgrade - either it couldn't built cleanly or the 
applications were misbehaving in all sort of strange ways. I switched to 
poudriere and now FreeBSD packages are just joy to use. Setting up 
poudriere is very easy, but if it is still to much please give 
https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/synth a try.

BTW when I try to open cnn.com I am being redirected to 
http://edition.cnn.com/

Even if you built from ports you should still have the old version of 
Firefox in /usr/ports/distfiles

Grzegorz

On 07/06/2016 13:12, Bob Willcox wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Grzegroz. I've since discovered that I still do
> get the dialog box about the stopped script popping up sometimes (even
> when I don't go to cnn.com, though that seems to exacerbate it).
>
> Just for completeness, here's the text of the recent popup:
>
> =============================================================================
> A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can
> stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script
> continue.
>
> Script: http://ajax.cloudflare.com/cdn#loudflare.min.js line 4 > eval:2
> =============================================================================
>
> I really need to revert back to 46 somehow. The new version (47) just isn't
> usable in my environment. I've been performing a ports build/install, I'm
> thinking I will try simply doing a 'pkg install' next.
>
> Bob
>
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 12:57:15PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> I don't believe it's possible to revert ports to a previous version
>> (other than through SVN). However, if you have the older version of the
>> firefox package (e.g.
>> /usr/local/poudriere/data/packages/your-system/All) you should be able
>> to just point pkg to it.
>>
>> But before doing that I would suggest to reset your Firefox settings
>> just in case this problem is caused by an extension or other improper
>> configuration (e.g. by renaming the .mozilla/firefox folder or using the
>> FF setting that I don't remember now). You could also try to open
>> cnn.com in a private window where the plugins are disabled by default.
>>
>> Grzegorz
>>
>>
>> On 07/06/2016 12:48, Bob Willcox wrote:
>>> Hi Grzegorz,
>>>
>>> I altered my configuration to match what you list below and rebuilt/installed
>>> firefox. I no longer get the dialog box about the script not working but
>>> cnn.com still doesn't load as expected. It now will eventually complete but it
>>> takes several minutes (I didn't precisely time it, but it's about 4 or 5
>>> minutes) during which time firefox doesn't respond to any input at all. It
>>> does seem to eventually complete transferring data and updating but then
>>> firefox becomes very slow and unresponsive.
>>>
>>> So, what is the best way to revert back to version 46? I really can't use
>>> 47 with the way it is behaving now.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 07:03:49PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
>>>> I have upgrade to Firefox 47.0_1,1 earlier today and just tried cnn.com
>>>> - works without issues. I have compiled with poudriere using options:
>>>>
>>>> # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
>>>> # Options for firefox-45.0.1_3,1
>>>> _OPTIONS_READ=firefox-45.0.1_3,1
>>>> _FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=BUNDLED_CAIRO CANBERRA DBUS DEBUG DTRACE
>>>> FFMPEG GCONF GIO GNOMEUI INTEGER_SAMPLES LIBPROXY OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS PGO
>>>> PROFILE RUST TEST GTK2 GTK3 ALSA PULSEAUDIO
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=BUNDLED_CAIRO
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=CANBERRA
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=DBUS
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DEBUG
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DTRACE
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=FFMPEG
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=GCONF
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=GIO
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=GNOMEUI
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=INTEGER_SAMPLES
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=LIBPROXY
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PGO
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PROFILE
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=RUST
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=TEST
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=GTK2
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=GTK3
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=ALSA
>>>> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PULSEAUDIO
>>>>
>>>> Not sure why the file contains 45.0.1_3,1, probably because it hasn't
>>>> changed since then:
>>>>
>>>> g at crayon2:~ % pkg info | grep firefox
>>>> firefox-47.0_1,1               Web browser based on the browser portion
>>>> of Mozilla
>>>>
>>>> Grzegorz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06/06/2016 18:21, Bob Willcox wrote:
>>>>> I updated my firefox 46.0.1 to 47.0_1.1 yesterday (Sunday) and now when I go
>>>>> out to cnn.com it hangs, eventually putting up a dialog box telling me that a
>>>>> script has stop working (or something similar). Nothing I've tried so far
>>>>> seems to help and I wind up having to kill firefox.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone else experiencing this? Not that other sites (besides cnn.com) have
>>>>> hung on me as well, but cnn.com seems to be the worst (fails the quickest,
>>>>> within seconds of going there).
>>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org mailing list
>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"