Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany crashing since the GNOME 2.28 update

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Tue Dec 1 10:29:29 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Curly Brace wrote:
> Hi all, I'm on 8.0/amd64, and my GNOME 2.28 update went off with no
> problems, but now Firefox 3.5 and Epiphany 2.28 crash when visiting
> certain pages, such as the "Welcome to firefox" first-start page.
> Firefox leaves "Segmentation fault (core dump)" in the console when it
> crashes, and Epiphany is silent. I've removed the Totem 2.28 plugins
> (thinking them to be the cause), removed Moonlight, removed Java,
> removed nspluginwrapper Flash10, and finally
> removed /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins altogether.
> 
> This seems very similar to the Firefox 3.5 HTML5 <video> crash FreeBSD 7
> users experience until they kldload sem, but I'm on 8.0 and sem is
> loaded by default.

Did you remember to rebuild all your ports?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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