Re: pkg/48168: Firefox 23 segfault on NetBSD 6.1.1

[Michael <mike.d.ft402%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael <mike.d.ft402%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/48168: Firefox 23 segfault on NetBSD 6.1.1
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 17:24:56 +0500

 On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 11:05:01PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  From: Daniel Dias Camoles <daniel.camoles%estadao.com.br@localhost>
 >  To: pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 >  Subject: Re: pkg/48168
 >  Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:44:26 -0200
 >  
 >   I found out that the problem described at pkg/48168 happens when
 >  running firefox under spectrwm, but does not happen when running it under
 >  twm. Under spectrwm, there is also a work-around: if I open a terminal,
 >  su to become another user (root or not), and execute firefox, then the
 >  problem strangely doesn't happen.
 >  
 
 Exactly, I was running spectrwm back. It is a bug-ridden mess -- ditch it for
 i3wm.
 
 As for firefox, it may have grown too big to be useful. Browsers like Vimb 
  can fix that.