Re: Firefox on OpenBSD SPARC

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:43:10PM +0000, Joe Lannon wrote:
> I've been attempting to run OpenBSD on my Blade 100 since release 4.4.
>  On 4.4 and 4.5, Firefox would always crash on certain JavaScript
> heavy sites such as Google Docs.  I thought this was a bug and waited
> for it to go away...
> 
> Now on 4.6 Firefox won't even start at all.  Just leaves a
> firefox35-bin.core file.  This is on on a clean install - just ran
> pkg_add kdebase and pkg_add firefox35 after the installer, nothing
> else.
> 
> Now I'm starting to think this must be a configuration issue of some
> kind?  I can't be the only one who uses Firefox on SPARC...

I regularly run firefox on a sparc64 ultra 5, running a couple month out
of date 4.6-current snapshot. It's slow but it works, except for a few
sites that cause ff to dump core (Facebook and others). I've run ff on
that machine over various releases, snapshots, whatever. Sometimes
sites that used to crash ff don't after an upgrade, and things that
used to work don't any more. But overall it has always worked, though I
had to give up vimperator several months back.

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