On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:09:54PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 01.05.2018 17:59, Mayuresh wrote: > > Not able to browse continuously even for a minute without facing "Gah. > > Your tab just crashed." in www/firefox (59). > > > > Can't even login to gmail, nothing happens on clicking "Next" on entering > > email id. > > > > Is it just NetBSD or firefox 59? Or is it just me?! > > > > I switched back to using NetBSD after 8.0 RC1 was available. Wasn't using > > NetBSD for quite a while due to USB problems with my hardware that NetBSD > > wasn't handling before. While all my issues seem to be resolved by 8.0 > > RC1, I was then greeted with an unusable browser. > > > > Curious how other users who (have to) use a web browser with javascript on > > NetBSD are coping with this. Any other browser or older firefox or 59 is > > just alright for you? > > > > Mayuresh > > This was an occasional problem in the past. Nowadays it's crashing all > the time and the only known workaround to me is to keep restarting the > browser.
I have different results depending on Firefox version and platform. On i386 with NetBSD 8, I rarely have a problem with Firefox 59. On the other hand, if I switch to an amd64 platform running NetBSD 8 and Firefox 59, it often crashes with the "Gah" message. Restarting can fix it, but sometimes it takes many restarts. Sometimes it gets stuck and I have to forcefully kill it before I try again. It might also be worth trying some combination of "Restore this tab" or Control-N (open new window) or Control-T (open new tab). I also rarely have the problem with Firefox 59 with NetBSD 7.1.2 on an amd64 platform. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman
