Firefox or what?

Evilham contact at evilham.com
Mon Aug 12 19:37:57 UTC 2019


On dl., ag. 12 2019, hw at gc-24.de 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.
>
> If Firefox is incompatible with FreeBSD, what's the alternative?

Confirming what others said: Firefox works just fine at least in 
12-RELEASE and 13-CURRENT.

Cherry on top of the pie: I even managed to recompile it in 
poudriere with sndio support (and no alsa / pulseaudio) and even 
like that it works beautifully :-).
--
Evilham


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