m...@netbsd.org wrote: >On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 08:41:49AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: >> On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:05:57 -0700 >> bch <brad.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I quit running Firefox on my (-current) laptop months ago because the >> > build process (rust, esp) was so brutal. Have there been any >> > community efforts to organize the build artifacts from bleeding-edge >> > environments to avoid repeating (and failing, in my case) this most >> > horrible build? >> >> What's the alternative, I've not used NetBSD for desktop tasks for a >> while now, but I wish recent Opera browser was available for NetBSD. I >> suppose you could run it with Linux emulation, but not sure how well it >> works on NetBSD. Last time I tried, which was years ago, there were >> some display issues, i.e. scrolling text up/down would produce these >> annoying lagging artefacts, etc. > >Firefox works great. The discussion here isn't about firefox being >broken on netbsd, it's being broken across an update. That usually >happens due to some kind of binary incompatibility being introduced.
I'm not sure this is down to a binary incompatibility. I started seeing the same thing recently too even when Firefox and all its dependencies have been rebuilt from source. Google Maps triggers it for me.
