Re: firefox does not work ok 10 Stable

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Mon, 2024-11-11 at 07:31 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> El 11 de noviembre de 2024 3:21:25 CET, "David H. Gutteridge"
> <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost> escribió:
> > On Thu, 07 Nov 2024 at 15:28:41 +0000, Van Ly wrote:
> > > Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
> > 
> > > > Also they do not work in my Thinkpad x260 with 10-stable.
> > > 
> > > I have firefox128 running on ThinkPad e470 NetBSD 10 stable and
> > > everything just works.  During a 12 hour plus build from the
> > > stable src
> > > pull-up, firefox128 experiences skips in video but not audio.
> > 
> > firefox115 and firefox128 both work fine for me on NetBSD 9.4_STABLE
> > playing Youtube videos. In my case, this is with an older AMD CPU
> > and
> > radeon DRM. (This is the laptop I "dogfood" these updates on before
> > committing.)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> Thanks for information, Dave. 
> 
> I have compiled after looooong hours chromium from pkgsrc-wip and
> works just fine.
> 
>  I do not understand what happens to my firefoxes under 10 Stable. All
> my 2 amd64 boxes are in 10 Stable now, I cannot test under
> 10.0Release, just in case it matters. I understand that along 10
> branch there should not be problems using compiled packages, is not
> it? Does it worth the effort compiling Firefox and see what happens?

I'm guessing there's some rendering issues related to the specific
hardware you have. 10_STABLE includes recent pullups for DRM issues, but
I would (generally) expect they would help not hinder here. I doubt it
is a binary package issue.

Regards,

Dave