HTML5 videos crashes Firefox
Patrick Powell
papowell at astart.com
Tue Mar 29 19:54:47 UTC 2016
I just tried one of the videos and my firefox crashed as well.
FreeBSD laptop_93.private 9.3-RELEASE-p30 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p30 #0:
Mon Nov 2 10:11:50 UTC 2015
root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src
/sys/GENERIC amd64
X firefox-43.0.3_1,1 Web browser based on the browser
portion of Mozilla
On 03/29/16 09:20, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 10:12:07 -0700, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:
>
>> Hello Andrea,
>
> Hello and thanks for your help.
>
>
>> I have tried the first video I get from youtube without problems.
>> May be you post an url where the crash occurs.
>
> I can just go to youtube.it/com and choose a random one; e.g.:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJLzq_coUg
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVEXCh63pQ
>
> (Please forgive me for linking that crap, but you asked it :)
>
>
>
>> The options I use are
>> according to pkg info
>> ALSA : on
>> BUNDLED_CAIRO : off
>> CANBERRA : off
>> DBUS : on
>> DEBUG : off
>> DTRACE : off
>> FFMPEG : on
>> GCONF : off
>> GIO : on
>> GNOMEUI : off
>> GTK2 : on
>> GTK3 : off
>> INTEGER_SAMPLES: off
>> LIBPROXY : off
>> OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS: off
>> PGO : off
>> PROFILE : off
>> PULSEAUDIO : off
>> TEST : off
>
> I had:
>> ALSA : off
>> BUNDLED_CAIRO : on
>> CANBERRA : off
>> DBUS : on
>> DEBUG : off
>> DTRACE : on
>> FFMPEG : on
>> GCONF : off
>> GIO : on
>> GNOMEUI : off
>> GTK2 : off
>> GTK3 : on
>> INTEGER_SAMPLES: off
>> LIBPROXY : off
>> OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS: on
>> PGO : off
>> PROFILE : off
>> PULSEAUDIO : on
>> RUST : on
>> TEST : off
>
> However, I tried your set of options (with RUST on and off, since you
> don't have it): things didn't change, still crashing.
>
>
>
> > The version is 45.0.1,1
>
> 45.0.1_3,1, here, but I also went through 45.0.1,1, which crashed in
> the same way.
>
>
>
>> May be you try pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts
>> if the libraries are in order.
>
> I used sysutil/libchk, which should do more or less the same thing:
> there were some unresolved references in binaries which should not be
> related to FireFox: I solved that, but it's still crashing.
> Any other thing to check?
>
>
>
>> Do you have an i386 kernel?
>
> Yes.
>
>
>
>> I am not sure if there might be a possible issue.
>
> Any pointer on that?
> *If* firefox is incompatible with i386 I might switch, but it's going
> to be a very long work; so I'd like to get some hint about this before
> I venture myself in such a trouble.
>
>
>
>> When I have started using FreeBSD I thought amd64 is just for AMD
>> processors.
>> But amd64 is also ok for Intel.
>
> I know the difference.
> However this box's install predates amd64: I was using it more than 10
> years ago (5.x or 6.x possibly) and it's still there through several
> hardware and software upgrades.
> Until now I haven't found any good reason to drop everything and
> reinstall from scratch...
>
>
>
> > This is likely the newest one. I am not completely up to date because
> > I mostly upgrade only when there are vulnerabilities.
>
> So do I, but I've gone through every minor update since I'm
> experiencing these crashes.
>
>
> bye & Thanks
> av.
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