Re: Firefox stability?

[Greg Oster <oster%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:33:44 -0600 (CST)
"John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Greg Oster wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:47:33 +0000
> > David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >   
> > > As a data point I see a similar hang with packages built on the
> > > 4th December. Updating for a new test now...  
> > 
> > With packages built on Jan 7, 2017 I see the hang when trying to
> > print in firefox-50.1.0 on NetBSD-7.0_STABLE (amd64). A new profile
> > and hitting "CTRL-p" is sufficient to trigger the problem.  
> 
> Hmm.  I had a suspicion 'cups' was involved in this.  My test was not
> complete as I only built dependencies leading to firefox.  "cups" is
> not yet installed.  It will be built as a dependency of other
> packages.
> 
> I have an mp3 recording of OpenBSD developers describing "cups"
> thusly:
> 
>   "You mean that thing that breaks printing completely?"
> 
> ;)

So on this same system.... I did a "pkg_delete cups".... and now CTRL-p
pops up the print dialog box as expected...  Stop firefox, "pkg_add
cups".  Start firefox.  CTRL-p hangs.  Stop firefox.  "pkg_delete
cups".  Start firefox.  Ctrl-p works.

Yep.. it's cups...

Later...

Greg Oster