living with arcticfox browser on OpenBSD

I have been using arcticfox for few years now, it gives me a good old software vibe. My old computer is an intel Skylake. The browser builds and runs ok abeit a bit slow. I think this is because, on OpenBSD building arcticfox with -O2 will produce crashing binary (-O1 is ok, even the README says to only use -O0). I recently got a new Alderlake based system, arcticfox builds ok with my .mozconfig. However when I try to run it, the binary crashs with error: "illegel instruction". Oh well, back to firefox for a bit I guess, sad face.jpeg

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😎 decant

2023-11-14 · 6 months ago · 👍 norayr, hellfire103

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🚀 stack · Dec 13 at 21:36:

I am using librewolf, plenty fast on an aging I5. Stock pkg.

😎 decant [OP] · Feb 26 at 06:55:

So I digged deeper into the about:config/user.js part of the firefox There are maybe 2 automatic connections firefox will make upon start up that have no config option to disable. aagghhh. Against my desire to not

😎 decant [OP] · Feb 26 at 06:57:

(I pushed enter by mistake) feed into the google chrome monoculture, I switched to ungoogled-chromium on my new machine. very sad face.jpeg

🐙 norayr · Mar 06 at 01:03:

Illegal instruction means that the cpu instruction in the code does not exist on the cpu. so it is compiled for newer cpu hhan yours. you should be able to solve ih by providing exact flags to the compiler. CFLAGS="-march=core2" should work on any x86_64 but if you figure out exact march for your architecture, that would be perfect.