Re: firefox dumping core after NetBSD upgrade

[maya%NetBSD.org@localhost]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 08:41:49AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:05:57 -0700
> bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > I quit running Firefox on my (-current) laptop months ago because the
> > build process (rust, esp) was so brutal. Have there been any
> > community efforts to organize the build artifacts from bleeding-edge
> > environments to avoid repeating (and failing, in my case) this most
> > horrible build?
> 
> What's the alternative, I've not used NetBSD for desktop tasks for a
> while now, but I wish recent Opera browser was available for NetBSD. I
> suppose you could run it with Linux emulation, but not sure how well it
> works on NetBSD. Last time I tried, which was years ago, there were
> some display issues, i.e. scrolling text up/down would produce these
> annoying lagging artefacts, etc.

Firefox works great. The discussion here isn't about firefox being
broken on netbsd, it's being broken across an update. That usually
happens due to some kind of binary incompatibility being introduced.