Is there something wrong with forums.freebsd.org?

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Quartz wrote:

>>>>> Let me ask this a different way: did they update to something so new
>>>>> that it only works on very recent OSs? Like should I test with a
>>>>> windows 8 system or something?
>>>> 
>>>> No. Firefox 38 on FreeBSD 10-STABLE here, works fine.
>>> 
>>> Well, given that 10.0 came out only a year and a half ago, that
>>> doesn't really give me any more info. I'm wondering where the cutoff
>>> is for "too old" in this case, assuming that's even the issue.
>> 
>> It is the browser, not the operating system. Unless you have an
>> unpatched openSSL, maybe.
>
> OK, where does curl fit into that then? Presumably all the versions I have 
> access to are too old I guess.

There was a problem curl linking to both the base and ports version of 
openssl not too long ago, and consequently breaking other applications.