Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:13:36PM -0600, Dale wrote
>
>> Questions.  How do you set yours and why if you know why?  Which one
>> is most stable?  Any other advantages to having it one way or
>> the other.  Should some be on and others off?
>   A thread "Subject: [gentoo-user] palemoon again: USE=system-libs" is
> asking the exact same question right now about Pale Moon (a Firefox
> fork).  As a precautionary principle, I try to avoid system libs as much
> as possible.  Using the internal version avoids ABI mis-matches (as in
> "Windows DLL-hell") between the external library and the internal calls.
>
>   System libs do work 99% of the time, but there can be problems if the
> browser is updared and expects a newer library, or a library is updated
> and changes ABI.  Gentoo ebuilds can specify dependancy version ranges,
> but that may sometimes run into blockers if multiple apps want the same
> library, but different versions.
>

I was just reading a post there about this.  I was sort of curious as to
what others do and why.  I can see the point you are making tho. 
Keeping it in sync could be interesting. 

To add some info.  I enabled those and recompiled Seamonkey and Firefox
earlier today.  I had Seamonkey crash a couple times the other day and
thought I would try using it this way, see if it matters.  Firefox is
pretty stable tho.  The only gripe I have on it, memory usage and being
so dang slow to close.  I tell it to quit and it sits there for a
while.  Thing is, I have TONS of tabs.  It got so bad, I added that tab
grouping thingy to help sort them out a bit.  lol 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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