Firefox or what?

[Polytropon]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:37:54 +0200, hw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does any of the Firefox versions that can be installed with pkg
> actually work?  Firefix continues to freeze, crash, being unable to
> remember its settings, to not show up at all when starting it other
> than in the process list, and it usually can't be killed even with
> kill -9.

I have a FreeBSD 12.0-p7/i386 installation running Firefox 68.0,
and I don't have any problems. I even tried "modern" web pages,
and even though Firefox sometimes seems to run a bit too slow,
no crashes or freezes.

But what you're describing rings a bell.

Just to make sure you're not suffering from an inconsistent
file system, boot your system in single-user mode and perform
a forced full fsck on all filesystems, especially those carrying
/usr/local and /home. Make sure you have the following setting
in /etc/rc.conf:

	background_fsck="NO"

Inconsistent file system can definitely cause the kind of problem
you're seeing, so make sure it's not the case.

NB: Does only apply to UFS. ;-)



> If Firefox is incompatible with FreeBSD, what's the alternative?

It isn't. Things that do not build or run on FreeBSD are either
marked "BROKEN", or aren't part of the ports collection.



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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