pkg update firefox and thunderbird under 14.2-R causes missing symbols

From: Jin Guojun[VFF] <jguojun_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:55:41 UTC
Hi guys,

Updated firefox and thunderbird to from 131/128 to137 today and both are 
dead due to missing symbol "png_get_cICP@PNG16_0" from libxil.so

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this problem? This is under 
FreeBSD 14.2-Release.

-Jin

% firefox
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
/usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so: Undefined symbol "png_get_cICP@PNG16_0"
Couldn't load XPCOM.

% thunderbird
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so:
/usr/local/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so: Undefined symbol 
"png_get_cICP@PNG16_0"
Couldn't load XPCOM.

% pkg info | egrep "fire|thunder"
firefox-137.0.2,2              Web browser based on the browser portion 
of Mozilla
thunderbird-137.0.2_1          Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail 
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