Re: Firefox on stable/13

From: parv/freebsd <parv.0zero9+freebsd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:50:42 UTC
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 11:47 PM Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> In message <
> CABObuOprWx239mp3arGJxUkG4sV3La8eoxT0V2_WLKpMT7wWfQ@mail.gmail.com>
> "parv/freebsd" wrote:
>
> >(Damn! I must be lucky.)
> >
> >I am running 13/stable from Dec 3, 2021 (in VirtualBox on Windows 10; with
> >MIINIMAL
> >derived kernel) where Firefox 95.0.2,2 (installed package) has been
> working
> >fine;
> >so did earlier versions.
> >
> >Is there something I should try to produce the error? Or, is there
> >something in
> >/etc/{make,src}.conf (below) may be responsible for that?
>
> Did you enable ASLR during the system install?
>
> I did, and that (indirectly) caused the problem, I think.  (I had never
> enabled that before now.)
>
> (It would appear that the Firefox package doesn't play entirely well with
> one small aspect of ASLR.)
>
That's it! No, I had not explicitly enabled the option. Thanks for
pointing that out.


- parv

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