On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:58:46 +0000 [email protected] wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 08:41:49AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:05:57 -0700 > > bch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I quit running Firefox on my (-current) laptop months ago because > > > the build process (rust, esp) was so brutal. Have there been any > > > community efforts to organize the build artifacts from > > > bleeding-edge environments to avoid repeating (and failing, in my > > > case) this most horrible build? > > > > What's the alternative, I've not used NetBSD for desktop tasks for a > > while now, but I wish recent Opera browser was available for > > NetBSD. I suppose you could run it with Linux emulation, but not > > sure how well it works on NetBSD. Last time I tried, which was > > years ago, there were some display issues, i.e. scrolling text > > up/down would produce these annoying lagging artefacts, etc. > > Firefox works great. The discussion here isn't about firefox being > broken on netbsd, it's being broken across an update. That usually > happens due to some kind of binary incompatibility being introduced.
I'm sure it works, but I personally prefer other browsers, because they use less memory and work better. There is too much bloat in Firefox, e.g. Rust, but that is just my personal opinion.
