Contributed by merdely on from the making-firefox-work dept.
Samiuela LV Taufa writes:
OpenBSD’s patchset has been waiting for quite some time. Martynas was able, through no small amount of patience, and some fortunate timing while I was at FOSDEM, to get everything wrapped up finally, and OpenBSD is now shipping officially branded and approved builds. We’re working on getting most of the port code upstream, since they don’t do anything extra for their own hooks they could get to the point where they’re simply shipping stock builds, which would make everyone’s lives easier.
A huge thanks to both Martynas and Alexander for all of their hard work here, it should make things a lot better for everyone.
Read more at Firefox and Linux redux(and OpenBSD)
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By Devin Smith (drs) <none> on
By jirib (195.212.29.187) on
on Linux it works OK. maybe OpenBSD is strict how the code should run (?).
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By Frank DENIS (82.224.188.215) on http://forum.manucure.info
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> on Linux it works OK. maybe OpenBSD is strict how the code should run (?).
Firefox often crashes because it tries to crunch more memory than your current user limits.
Try to edit /etc/login.conf, bump up the values, logout, login, and Firefox should be rock solid.
You can also put yourself in the staff class : usermod -L staff yourlogin
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By Anonymous Coward (70.66.28.12) on
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> > on Linux it works OK. maybe OpenBSD is strict how the code should run (?).
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> Firefox often crashes because it tries to crunch more memory than your current user limits.
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> Try to edit /etc/login.conf, bump up the values, logout, login, and Firefox should be rock solid.
> You can also put yourself in the staff class : usermod -L staff yourlogin
This has gotten me a few times as well. To bad firefox doesn't handle out of memory errors gracefully.
By Kurt Miller (69.122.119.232) on
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> Try to edit /etc/login.conf, bump up the values, logout, login, and Firefox should be rock solid.
> You can also put yourself in the staff class : usermod -L staff yourlogin
I would recommend increasing both datasize-cur and openfiles-cur to avoid ff running out of memory or file descriptors. I use ff every day and it is rock solid.
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By Mr. Coward (81.155.115.96) on
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> > Try to edit /etc/login.conf, bump up the values, logout, login, and Firefox should be rock solid.
> > You can also put yourself in the staff class : usermod -L staff yourlogin
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> I would recommend increasing both datasize-cur and openfiles-cur to avoid ff running out of memory or file descriptors. I use ff every day and it is rock solid.
Works fine on my zaurus! http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=19364&view=findpost&p=160891
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By Anonymous Coward (68.100.57.112) on
Before I spend three+ days building it, how's it run? ;) Is the speed tolerable? At home I just ssh tunnel firefox running on an i386 box but it would be nice to be able to run it on the Z.
By Janne Johansson (194.218.229.80) jj@openbsd.org on
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> > Try to edit /etc/login.conf, bump up the values, logout, login, and Firefox should be rock solid.
> > You can also put yourself in the staff class : usermod -L staff yourlogin
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> I would recommend increasing both datasize-cur and openfiles-cur to avoid ff running out of memory or file descriptors. I use ff every day and it is rock solid.
This goes for thunderbird also, raising the file descriptor limits prevents really bad behaviour, since thunderbird mostly runs out of them while trying to send mails, and when it cant, it wants to save the message for later sending, which obviously also fails, and then you can't exit it in a decent fashio. I do "ulimit -n 1024" just to be sure, even though it probably doesn't use much more than the default 64 fd's which presents the problem.
By viking (viking) andy.elvey@paradise.net.nz on
With this and the very recent update of Gnome, OpenBSD has made *huge* progress on the desktop in the last few weeks/months. 4.2 will be another milestone as well, with Xenocara arriving then (X.org 7.2).
The end of the year will be really busy on the desktop front with KDE 4.0 arriving in October...