Re: Linux Firefox works, FreeBSD Firefox broken (discord)

On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM smurfd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey
>
> It seems Discord was updated may 4th:
> https://discord.com/blog/discord-patch-notes-may-4-2026
>
> Since it is the common nominator it would make sense that it is the
> problem?
> unless you upgraded all browsers or OS just before it stopped working...
> Have not tried Discord on FreeBSD...
>

So.  I have filed a bug with Discord.  But, given sizes of players, FreeBSD
is more likely to need to change.  Especially since I've discovered that
the linuxulator can run the web version just fine --- meaning the browsers,
for which we have source, are behaving badly on FreeBSD.


> And could it be that the https://wiki.freebsd.org/Discord/DiscordClient
> lags behind in versions, compared to the web version...
>

Interesting premise.  I've got the linux binary client installed.  It's
just something that runs within the chromium sandbox ... and it's currently
broken due to how linux libraries load.


> You could also try maby using firefox-esr which is v140.10 instead of
> firefox v150.0 (released 21st april) if that makes any difference.


I don't hold a great hope there --- firstly because old browsers are hard
to maintain on FreeBSD due to ports not keeping any, but secondly using any
social media from and older and possibly compromised binary is risky
business.