Re: pkgsrc firefox91 - rust-fu needed for borrowed value

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi!

Please file upstream bug reports, take a look at FreeBSD ports and
OpenBSD ports for patches.

The OpenBSD maintainer (landry) is usually very helpful too when you
have questions about firefox.

Cheers,
 Thomas

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 04:07:30PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> I have firefox-105.3 built on netbsd-9 running on
> netbsd-current/amd64. It's _mostly_ stable, certainly better than when
> I was running 102, but no way as stable as firefox-91. Pages hang,
> requiring killing service workers, and the inspector console crashes
> quite a bit (the latter really annoying when debugging pages).  I need
> to restart it around once a day. It's also noticeably slower than
> firefox-91, stuttering when firefox-91 does not seem to.
> 
> I keep a firefox-91 around for when I need something faster, or
> something like running screen capture (PR#56955). Amusingly firefox-91
> can run a webrtc capture of firefox-105's window.
> 
> David
> 
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 12:10, nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 11:13:11AM +0000, pin wrote:
> > > > trying to select
> > > > multiple lines in the editor and moving them a few lines down relatively
> > > > reproducably hangs firefox for me.
> > >
> > > It works better if you select from the end of the section and go up.
> > > Firefox-105 doesn't freeze om amd64 NetBSD-9.99.108.
> > >
> > > > > Which web applications in particular?
> > > > > On any particular platforms or all of them?
> > > > > Thomas
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It's noticable with Mastodon, Telegram, and Slack. Anything with
> > > > a persistent conncetion - perhaps anything using a service worker.
> > > >
> > > > The same problem exists on FreeBSD for Slack IME.
> > >
> > > Been running Matrix element for hours now without any issue (also firefox-105 amd64, 9.99.108
> > > Telegram and Slack are a no go here and I haven't tried Mastodon in ages.
> > > No longer have an account.
> >
> > Okay, cool that it works for you.
> > That is not good enough reason to remove, though.