Re: does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

Mine just crashes. I think there was a thread on this and you have to do
"something" to get it working. For the life of me I can't remember what
that was.

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> So, does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?
>
> I've been rebuilding another amd64 system starting with a stock 9.0
> install, and I decided I should try firefox, since I haven't tried it in
> a very long time, so I just used "pkgin install firefox" to try....
>
> However it just dumps core when I start it:
>
> Reading symbols from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox...
> (No debugging symbols found in /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox)
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox
> [New process 17803]
> [Detaching after fork from child process 2656]
> [New LWP 2 of process 17803]
>
> Thread 1 "" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007b1ac69aa96a in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007b1ac69aa96a in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #1  0x00007b1ac980e571 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #2  0x00007b1ac980b18b in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #3  0x00007b1ac9810278 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #4  0x00007b1ac98105d9 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/libxul.so
> #5  0x00000001e8c0a810 in ?? ()
> #6  0x00000001e8c068fd in _start ()
> (gdb)
>
> (stripped binaries are a curse)
>
>
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