Re: current firefox

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 21 May 2025 at 21:44, pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 at 6:47 PM, Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:
>
> > On Wed 21 May 2025 at 10:30:42 +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> >
> > > By default pkgrsc patches firefox to avoid issues on NetBSD to have
> > > dom.serviceworkers.enabled=false. IIRC things would hang.
> > >
> > > You could try switching that setting in about:config
> >
> >
> > There was an interactive xkcd recently (https://xkcd.com/3074/) that
> > depended on service workers. I think I got it working with the same
> > change.
>
> Thank you both.
> I can confirm that setting 'dom.serviceworkers.enabled' to 'true' allows images to display on element-web.

For me, after running for an hour or so, Teams & Gmail got into a bad
state that needed a Firefox restart. Happened a couple of times and
running without service workers again...

(Any reproducer description which starts "Open the Teams web app" is
in a bad place)

David