Re: Firefox and Thunderbird freeze system causing a reboot
- In reply to: Lucas Holt : "Re: Firefox and Thunderbird freeze system causing a reboot"
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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 outdated it was being rejected.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 > >