Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com

[Bob Willcox]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 01:21:06PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> 
> On 09/06/2016 13:10, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > 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 ....
> >
> >
> 
> I second that and repeat what I said before. If you want to compile your 
> own packages with custom options then fine, but do it properly with 
> either poudriere or synth. Otherwise, just use the FreeBSD generic ones. 
> Portupgrade and portmaster are fine but only as long as they work, and 
> from my experience sooner or later they always stop working and from 
> then there is going to be a path of misery, wasted time and broken 
> applications.

Well, I've compiled and reinstalled all of the packages on the system with
synth with the same result. BTW, from what I could tell, synth forced me to
remove any local configuration files that I had for the half a dozen or so
ports prior to allowing me to to the 'synth upgrade-system' run.

I don't know what is going on/wrong with firefox, but it seems to be getting
hung up with some scripts that it tries to run. Since I replaced the version
47 of firefox with the previous 46 version and the problem persisted, I
suspect that the issue may not be in firefox at all. It's just the victim.

> 
> Grzegorz
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