This may help others. Since my previous firefox installation on NetBSD x86_64/9.1 was starting not to display correctly some sites, I upgraded.
Since with the huge dependencies of firefox, I seem to be unable now to compile from pkgsrc on my node---there is always several packages that fail to compile, frequently with pkg-config errors, while running configure in the work directory works, but "make configure" fails---I `pkg_add' pointing to the latest binaries on some ftp server. Hell: the thing crashed constantly on everything but the simplest hello.html with partial refreshing of the display, dragging tiles, invisible parts etc. Once more it is a problem of number of files a proc can open. What was enough for a previous version is not enough anymore because firefox renders pages with litteraly thousands of pieces/files. So if someone faces this, the solution is to increase the number of files that can be opened and this is directly linked at compile time with the number of users[1]. (I had set my maxusers to 16---while default is 64---and this leads to not enough; I have bumped it to 256 for now hoping that "progress" in the waste of resources will give me some months of respite...) FWIW. 1: See https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/tuning_netbsd_for_performance/ -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ http://www.sbfa.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
