Re: Firefox stability?

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

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, John D. Baker wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jan 2017, John D. Baker wrote:
> 
> > Since I'm resigned to reverting anyway, I'm giving firefox-48.0.2 (the
> > last pre-49.x version in pkgsrc) a whirl.  Downloading and building now.
> 
> Firefox-48.0.2 freezes the same way when attempting to print.  This would
> seem to indicate a different cause.
> 
> The only significant change to my setup that would affect the older
> firefox package was the addition of "-dbus" to my PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS.
> I have eliminated this option and am rebuilding.

Re-enablng the "dbus" option for firefox did not help.  I even went so
far as to nuke my existing profile and start all over.  Any attempt to
print in Firefox (e.g., "Ctrl-P") causes it to soft-hang.

I'll head back to firefox-47.x in pkgsrc-2016Q2 and see if that works.

If only I never needed to print anything, it would be OK.  But there
are some critical items I need that can only be printed from a web
browser.

"It used to work, now it doesn't, and going back to the previous version
doesn't work anymore, either."

Off to visit the penguin-OS exhibit...

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