Re: drive-by shooting of Firefox?

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

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 16:41, Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
> I have been using firefox60 as my NetBSD (64-bit 9.32) browser because
> of its apparent stability and usability.  But today I got an error
> essage:
>
> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/pkg/lib/firefox60/libmozgtk.so:
> /usr/pkg/lib/firefox60/libmozgtk.so: Shared object "libgdk-3.so.0" not
> found
> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>
> Indeed I could not find the nam,ed file, but in /usr/pkg/lib there was
> a libgtk-3.so.0.2400.1, so I made a symlink to that called
> libgtk-3.so.0.  No improvement.  Is there something else I ought to be
> doing?
>
> More generally, though, this is likelyto be a consequence of my doing
> some pkgin work a few days ago, and has all the unpredictability of a
> drive-by shooting.  Is there any form of insurance available?  And is
> there a better stable firefox available?  I need a browser that
> woas, not to play with.

Was that a local build, or quite an old package? - it sounds like it
may have been a package which no longer exists in the repo, so will
not have been updated to work against updated dependencies.

pkgin should be able to find firefox52, 102, 115, 128 and "firefox".
102 and later should still be getting security updates.

If you want a lightweight browser in the style of earlier firefox
versions, you may also want to look at palemoon or arcticfox

David