Re: Firefox 40 crashes (Was: Will Firefox run on the PI and how stable is it?)

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, David Brownlee wrote:

> On 14 August 2015 at 01:33, Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> > FWIW, I recently installed Firefox 40.0 on my amd64 system.  In the past 24 hours, it has crashed twice.  (Once while scrolling through a long page, once overnight while I was sleeping and nothing was happening!)
> >
> > I have not had any time to investigate further, but I might suggest that 40.0 has "stability issues".   :)
>
> I've recently updated to Firefox 40, most recent pkgsrc on most recent
> netbsd-7 amd64 and have noticed it now crashes at unpredictable
> intervals. Possibly more often shortly after opening a new tab but
> that may be anecdotal...

And more FWIW, my windoze box informed me that there's a "teeny" update 
out now for F'fox. 40.0.2 claims to be a "stability and security" 
update.


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