maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 211233] www/firefox: frequent crashes

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Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi at aon.at> has reassigned Bugzilla Automation
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Bug 211233: www/firefox: frequent crashes
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211233



--- Description ---
Since yesterday, firefox crashes very frequently. After a crash it leaves an
on-disk state leading to even more frequent crashes up to the point where it
crashes immediately after starting.

Restoring .mozilla/firefox and .cache/mozilla/firefox from a backup improves
the situation for a while.

I suspect that one of the port upgrades is causing this behavior.

Getting the list of dependencies:
# pkg query %dn-%dv firefox-47.0.1_2,1 > /tmp/x1

Checking which ports have been installed more recently than firefox itself:
# pkg query '%n-%v   %t' `cat /tmp/x1` firefox-47.0.1_2,1 | sort -k2,2n | sed
-n '/firefox-47/,$ p'
firefox-47.0.1_2,1	1467920026
ffmpeg-2.8.7_2,1	1468341989
harfbuzz-1.2.7	1468342073
png-1.6.23	1468519635
#

So I guess it could be one of ffmpeg, harfbuzz, or png.