In message <https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=157570132320029&w=1>
I wrote about being unable to install a firefox addon (noscript) using
the packaged firefox-69.0.2p0 under 6.6/amd64. (Firefox would download
the addon and ask for the appropriate permissions, but after my accepting
the permission request the addon would never actually install; firefox
would just keep displaying the blue-dot-oscillating-left-and-right spinner.)
I'm pleased to report a workaround: My original problem occured while
running my usual window manager, twm. I temporarily switched to fvwm,
and then the addon installed properly (and continued to work after I
returned to twm).
twm is one of the oldest window managers around, and in the past decade
or so I've noticed that some software has minor issues with it ("monster
icons"). Given that it's part of base in OpenBSD, and it's (still)
standard with the X.org server, I'll file a bug report with firefox,
and maybe also with twm.
Thanks to George Koehler <kernigh () gmail ! com> for his followup to my
original message which helped nudge my brain in the direction of "try a
more popular environment".
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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove color- to reply]" <jthorn4...@pink-gmail.com>
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable
that they watched everybody all the time." -- George Orwell, "1984"
