Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com

[Shawn Webb]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 04:29:52PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 01:01:42PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 03:42:00PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > > That sounds bad indeed. Have you tried to reinstall using the official
> > > > pkg repository (not compiled on your machine)?
> > > >
> > > > BTW Firefox 47 just started crashing today for me. Nothing to do with
> > > > scripts, some exception in one of the *.c files (according to the
> > > > popup). I am now creating a new batch of packages with poudriere and
> > > > will try to upgrade to a newer version.
> > >
> > > Ugh. Mine hasn't crashed, just hung to the point where I have to kill it.
> > > Jan has suggested some things for me to try that I plan to do when I get
> > > some time. I'll post how that went once I've tried them.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob Willcox    | Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
> > > bob at immure.com | Who knows?  Who cares?
> > > Austin, TX     |
> > >
> > 
> > npviewer.bin is not part of firefox. It is a part of nspluginwrapper. If
> > you uninstall it and restart firefox, does the problem go away? (Of course,
> > you won't be able to view flash.) Have you followed Jan's suggestion to
> > re-setup nspluginwrapper? NOTE: It must be installed by you with the UID
> > you use to run firefox! Doing it as rot won't work.
> 
> I haven't been able to follow Jan's suggestions yet (I'm at work currently).
> I had done the setup for nspluginwrapper some time ago, but not since the
> system update on 6/4 that sent me down this rat hole. I'll give that a try
> first.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob

I'm running Firefox 47 on HardenedBSD and it's running like a champ. It
includes W^X compatibility, PIE, and RELRO + BIND_NOW. I was able to
successfully load CNN's site.

Thanks,

-- 
Shawn Webb
Cofounder and Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

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