Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 06/09/16 00:10, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Bob Willcox < <kob6558 at gmail.com>
> bob at immure.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I finally figured out how to get portdowngrade to give me a 46.0.1,1
>> version of firefox and built & installed it. Unfortunately, that didn't
>> solve
>> my hanging firefox scripts problem so apparently it's likely to be caused
>> by
>> something else that got updated when I did the portupgrade on June 4th. Not
>> sure where to go from here...
>>
>> Bob
>>
> No easy answers. I, also have no issues with 47.0 on my system and there
> are no other reports of the problem you are having. So where to look?
>
> What version of FreeBSD are you running? On what platform? i386 or amd64 or
> something else. Most people are running amd64. If ir is another platform,
> issues are less likely to have been seen. Is it 10.3 or something else.
>
> Unless someone else has a better suggestion, I'd re-install all
> dependencies. Older versions are more likely to have issues.I use
> portmaster, but I know portupgrade can also do this. Or use packages. It's
> a lot faster when you don't need any options on the ports.
>
> Other than that, I have no good ideas other than to re-install everything.
> And that may not fix it as it is possible that it's a memory or other
> hardware issue.
>
> I hope someone else has a better idea than I.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
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+1 on packages, *much* faster & same end result if you have no special 
compile options ....


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