Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com

[Bob Willcox]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 03:42:00PM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> 
> On 09/06/2016 19:52, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> That sounds bad indeed. Have you tried to reinstall using the official 
> pkg repository (not compiled on your machine)?
> 
> BTW Firefox 47 just started crashing today for me. Nothing to do with 
> scripts, some exception in one of the *.c files (according to the 
> popup). I am now creating a new batch of packages with poudriere and 
> will try to upgrade to a newer version.

Ugh. Mine hasn't crashed, just hung to the point where I have to kill it.
Jan has suggested some things for me to try that I plan to do when I get
some time. I'll post how that went once I've tried them.

Bob

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