Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Bob Willcox    | Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
> bob at immure.com | Who knows?  Who cares?
> Austin, TX     |
>

npviewer.bin is not part of firefox. It is a part of nspluginwrapper. If
you uninstall it and restart firefox, does the problem go away? (Of course,
you won't be able to view flash.) Have you followed Jan's suggestion to
re-setup nspluginwrapper? NOTE: It must be installed by you with the UID
you use to run firefox! Doing it as rot won't work.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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