Re: git: 980444a82fbd - main - www/firefox: update to 100.0 (rc2)

## Craig Leres (leres@freebsd.org):

> > Works for me, but your description would match a broken dbus setup.
> 
> Has something changed recently with respect to dbus? My desktop systems 
> configuration is unchanged in months:

"Recently" since 94 or so you'll need an active dbus for the remote
commands ("new window via firefox commandline") to work if firefox
was compiled with dbis support (that's the default here).

>      dbus_enable="YES"
>      hald_enable="YES"

hald is long dead.

> And /usr/local/etc/dbus-1 appears to be using the sample config. I do 
> see that I upgrade dbus on April 30th: 1.12.20_5 -> 1.14.0. Do I need to 
> do something differently now?

We're down at 1.12.20,1 again, after people noticed problems with
the 1.14 version.

> I tried upgrading packages on my work desktop today and going from 
> firefox 100.0,2 to 100.0_1,2 broke firefox in a new way:

Never seen that one.

> I have a (spare) desktop at work. I upgraded it to firefox 100.0_1,2 and 
> thunderbird 91.9.0_2 (along with the other packages). I rebooted and 
> both firefox and thunderbird dump core after a minute or so.

Drats. Firefox is running for hours here.

> Exiting due to channel error.

That rings a bell: there was something about shared memory back in
the day, but it's too late here for googling.

Regards,
Christoph

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