Re: Firefox and Thunderbird freeze system causing a reboot

From: Richard Susgin <rhs.message_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:40:10 UTC
As previously mentioned on a vanilla 13.4 release using pkging for apps. I
can say both FF and TB run flawlessly with acceleration turned off. No
issues with execution speed.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 7:57 PM Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> wrote:

>
> On 11/9/24 8:28 AM, Richard Susgin wrote:
> >
> > Hello, curious situation with Mozilla?  I am not developing or
> > debugging at the moment but merely just using. Last week i updated
> > from FreeBSD13.1 to 13.4. Everything working in 13.1 but my FireFox so
> > outdated it was being rejected. After installing everything from
> > packaging and getting Xorg working everything seemed fine. XFCE
> > installed and ran with a few tweaks. Both FF and Thunderbird would not
> > start unless safe mode was invoked. I disabled composting in both and
> > they start and work perfectly sans acceleration. So after checking
> > around i find numerous posts about failing graphics stacks not being
> > able to connect. This may not affect u but it is definitely a thing.
> > Is this the end of Xorg and should we be using wayland?
> > Rick
> >
> >
> The grass isn't greener in wayland either.  Even on Linux systems, I've
> seen issues with thunderbird running very slow or hanging for periods.
> It seems related to the message viewer code.
>
> --
>
> Lucas Holt
>
>