Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available >>>>>>>>> as a package.

pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.

Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now >>>>>>> and firefox works for me.

More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object >>>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.

Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox >>>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.

Is libxul.so involved for you?
That is what is said to require libldap60.so .

I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/ >>>>

My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.

Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
about:sessionrestore
and
New Tab
but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
filling with repetitions of

Assertion failure
assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
Assertion failure
assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12

These apparently follow quickly on a complaint about sys/bus/pci
and two of lacking libnss.so.3 and an associated program...the
same old "couldn't load XPCOM" XPCOMGlueLoad errors.

For whatever that's worth!

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available >>>>>>>>>> as a package.

pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.

Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now >>>>>>>> and firefox works for me.

More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets
no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object >>>>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.

Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox >>>>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.

Is libxul.so involved for you?
That is what is said to require libldap60.so .

I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/

My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.

Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
about:sessionrestore
and
New Tab
but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
filling with repetitions of

Assertion failure
assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
Assertion failure
assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12

These apparently follow quickly on a complaint about sys/bus/pci
and two of lacking libnss.so.3 and an associated program...the
same old "couldn't load XPCOM" XPCOMGlueLoad errors.

Upgrading the Firefox package to 106.0.2 has made no difference.

For whatever that's worth!

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

In article <til9io$lkp$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

In article <tiku2p$8ej$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

You don't have to build Firefox for FreeBSD12.3. It's available >>>>>>>>>>> as a package.

pkg install has not worked in recent attempts.

Hmm. Don't know what to tell you then. I'm on 12.3 amd64 right now >>>>>>>>> and firefox works for me.

More specifically,every attempt to install it and launch gets >>>>>>>>no further thnan an XPCOMGlueLoad error because the shared object >>>>>>>>"libldap60.so" is not found so it can't load XPCOM.

Well, libldap60.so is apparently not on my system either, but firefox >>>>>>> is still happy, so I got nothing.

Is libxul.so involved for you?
That is what is said to require libldap60.so .

I'm sure you probably found this when you googled, but FWIW:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-will-not-launch.59758/

My system does have libxul.so in /usr/local/lib/firefox, so it's
there in the firefox mix somewhere. However "ldd ./libxul.so" does
not list libldap60.so (or any libldap version) as a dependancy.

Well,with latest attempts to start Firefox a window does come up,
but it's non-responsive...two tabs are shown
about:sessionrestore
and
New Tab
but the screen is vacant and gray below,nothing loads...
trying to use the address bar gets a menu of recent sites
but attempting to select one does not load it,and any attempt
to use any tab gets the window from which I launched firefox&
filling with repetitions of

Assertion failure
assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:567:10
handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12
Assertion failure
assert@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:500:36
preActions@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:568:10
handleEvent@resource:///modules/AsyncTabSwitcher.jsm:1089:12

These apparently follow quickly on a complaint about sys/bus/pci
and two of lacking libnss.so.3 and an associated program...the
same old "couldn't load XPCOM" XPCOMGlueLoad errors.

Upgrading the Firefox package to 106.0.2 has made no difference.

Nor have upgrades to 106.0.5 and 107.0.

For whatever that's worth!

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.