firefox

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> I'll probably regret opening this potential can of worms, but I find these
> reports of instability in Firefox surprising.

Well, I have quite a few issues with firefox already.
- The annoying 'pocket' icon which needs to be removed in every new profile
  and other similar 'options'
- strange behaviour in input fields etc.
- annoying question if one wants to refresh firefox
- and crashes

So I'm using palemoon as fallback browser, which has other issues.
Not the least the removal due to security issues from the ports tree.
I still build it, and it still builds 8-}

> Possibilities include hardware, especially graphics, web sites visited, and
> Firefox configuration. Lots of tabs may be an issue as I try to keep my
> open tabs under 20.

>  I can't imagine trying to deal with 200+, but it must eat a lot of
> resources. That may be tied to the failures reported.

My desktops have plenty of resources (32 or 64 GB RAM, lots of CPU),
still: Issues pop up eventually. I also have approx. 6-10 different
browsers running at the same time (for different profiles and contexts),
sometimes with around 100+ tabs each.

I have used it on different systems, with different FreeBSD versions
(11.2, 12.0), still: The browser situation is messy and gets messier
by the day.

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