Firefox became broken

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bgroper

I'm using 14.0-RELEASE-p6 and KDE Plasma desktop gui on bare metal (ie no VM interference).
Recently did a pkg update and upgrade.
Firefox was included in the updates to version 126.0_1,2
Firefox immediately stops working.
From /var/log/messages :
Code: 
freebsd14-desktop kernel: pid 2163 (firefox), jid 0, uid 1002: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)
I already tried restarting FreeBSD, but the problem persists.
Please, what is the-right-way to overcome this error ?
Should I try to install from ports instead ? I usually try to avoid mixing ports and packages.
Thanks in anticipation.
 
What repository are you using? Latest or quarterly? In the latest, running firefox 126.0,2, it is working fine.
 
Alain De Vos said:
Or try firefox-esr.
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It seems that pkg install firefox-esr automagically removes the regular firefox. And then firefox-esr works as expected.
I then did pkg install firefox (ie the regular firefox) which auto removed the firefox-esr as expected. It seems they cannot coexist happily.
Now the regular firefox works again too. I'll need to fiddle with the profiles and get back to normal speed.
I suspect a remove and reinstall of regular firefox would have fixed this problem too.
I dunno why firefox became broken by previous update. That is a question to ponder another day.
Thanks so much for your suggestion and helps.
 
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