[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

[Stephan Althaus]

On 03/16/21 04:27 PM, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> I made available a firefox package 68esr for testing
>
> Unfortunately for the moment there is a restriction!
> There is a setting in /etc/system necessary:
>
> set _userlimit=0x7fffc0000000
>
> whithout this, FF will raise a assertion in JS code.
>
> If you want to give it a try then:
>
> $ pfexec pkg set-publisher http://pkg.toc.de/userland userland
> $ pfexec pkg set-publisher --non-sticky openindiana.org
> $ pfexec pkg install firefox at 68.12.0 firefox-bookmarks at 68.12.0
>
> Many thanks to
> Till for the powerfull build server,
> Alan for the valuable hints about the VM configuration,
> the mozilla community for hints to adapt the code for illumos
>
> -- Carsten
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Hello!

After a

#pkg update

installation worked as mentioned.


Please note, this firefox version creates a new database folder in 
~/.mozilla,
if you make backups of yor bookmarks prior to this firefox-update they 
will be easier to migrate.


Everything works fine and it seems to be fast!! My simple stress-test of 
opening all tabs im my oi-bookmarksfolder worked very well.


By the way - what does "set _userlimit=0x7fffc0000000" actually do - and 
what does the limit mean to me as the user ??


Thanks for the efforts to get this to work!


Greetings

Stephan