Sitting back from my attempts to debug where firefox-47 on gcc-6.1 *occasionally* segfaults, I wonder if I'm missing the bigger picture. For me, firefox has often segfaulted (sometimes once a week, other times more frequently) but it has generally been usable. At the moment, it seems to segfault several times a day, usually on youtube (this is without things like ffmpeg and the main gstreamer plugins, so probably on html5 video) - I did get several segfaults on a forum a couple of days ago although at the moment (different compiler settings) it seems ok there.
But when I'm not *testing* a new build I can go weeks without visiting youtube, and I wonder how important that part of the usage actually is to BLFS users ? Since most people do not read -dev, I'll ask these questions here (to people who use the versions of firefox in the books) - 1. Do you update firefox to the latest release ? 2. If not, do you think that using an old version is safe ? I have to ask that because almost every update includes CVE fixes. 3. If firefox segfaults a few times a day, but mostly recovers the tabs without trouble, is that acceptable ? 4. And if *some* youtube html5 videos give trouble, can you live with that, or will you be jumping ship to one of the distros ? TIA. ĸen -- I had to walk fifteen miles to school, barefoot in the snow. Uphill both ways. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
