Re: firefox-49.0 segfaults frequently

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Rhialto wrote:

> My Firefox 49.9 suddenly crashed with
> 
> [NPAPI 7819] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file
> /pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/www/firefox/default/firefox-49.0/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp,
> line 2052
> [NPAPI 7819] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file
> /pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/www/firefox/default/firefox-49.0/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp,
> line 2052
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Is that what other people are seeing?

As I had mine launched from a GUI menu (fvwm), ~/.xsession-errors did
not contain anything I could associate with the crash.

I've since reverted to firefox-47.0nb1 (pkgsrc-2016Q2) and it has so-far
been trouble-free.

One annoying thing that has occurred is that there are a couple of
crucial (for me) web sites I can no-longer access.  They should present
a secure login widget but the additional components it needs are never
loaded.  It worked fine last month (still using firefox-47 at the time).
NoScript was disabled with no change in behavior.  A Linux system with
firefox-46 and later firefox-49 (with NoScript installed and active)
works just fine.

I tried playing with the UserAgent stuff, but that had no effect.

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