Re: firefox dumping core after NetBSD upgrade

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:58:46 +0000
maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:

> 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.

I'm sure it works, but I personally prefer other browsers, because they
use less memory and work better. There is too much bloat in Firefox,
e.g. Rust, but that is just my personal opinion.