ports/125993: www/firefox3 is unusable

[Michael]

The following reply was made to PR ports/125993; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael <freebsdports at bindone.de>
To: Joe Kelsey <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/125993: www/firefox3 is unusable
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:20:24 +0200

 Joe Kelsey wrote:
 >> Number:         125993
 >> Category:       ports
 >> Synopsis:       www/firefox3 is unusable
 >> Confidential:   no
 >> Severity:       critical
 >> Priority:       high
 >> Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
 >> State:          open
 >> Quarter:        
 >> Keywords:       
 >> Date-Required:
 >> Class:          sw-bug
 >> Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >> Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 26 21:50:03 UTC 2008
 >> Closed-Date:
 >> Last-Modified:
 >> Originator:     Joe Kelsey
 >> Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE amd64
 >> Organization:
 > Joseph M. Kelsey
 >> Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #21: Thu Jul 17 14:14:51 PDT 2008 root at zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZIRCON amd64
 > 
 >> Description:
 > 	firefox3 has many operational problems and no one seems willing
 > 	to listen to users problems.  None of the plugins operate
 > 	correctly, and many of them cause coredumps.  I have read
 > 	several different explanations, but there are no instructions
 > 	anywhere on how to actually make plugins that work.  There
 > 	should be explicit directions on how to compoile and install all
 > 	necessary plugins.
 > 
 > 	The background inaging does not work.  Any page that specifies a
 > 	background image often ends up with the X background
 > 	superimposed over the page contents.  This makes many pages
 > 	impossible to view.
 > 
 > 	Excessive swapping occurs for no discernible reason.  If you
 > 	have several tabs open, the program often cuases massive amounts
 > 	of swapping for no reason.
 > 
 > 	There should be at least an UPDATING entry which explains how to
 > 	make firefox3 operate correctly.  Either remove firefox2 or do
 > 	something to force people who want to use firefox3 to be able to
 > 	get all other programs to operate correctly.
 > 
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > 	Install firefox3.  Watch everything on the system break.
 > 
 >> Fix:
 > 
 > 	
 > 
 > 
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 For me firefox3 works fine. I have it installed in parallel to firefox2
 (both compiled out of ports) and use the profile manager to switch
 between them. FreeBSD 6.2 i386. Maybe this is specific to amd64?