Created attachment 185446 [details] screenshot of update dialog firefox-55.0,1 After some time a "Software Update" dialog box appears reporting "Update Failed" and the message "Firefox is unable to determine if there is an update available. Please make sure that you have the latest version of Firefox from:"
Probably a regression from ports r436423. I'll back it out given https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348576 landed in all supported branches.
Alternatively, the update window can probably be suppressed by building with --disable-updater.
A commit references this bug: Author: jbeich Date: Fri Aug 18 21:39:47 UTC 2017 New revision: 448278 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/448278 Log: gecko: stop calling home to check for updates after r436423 Upstream seems to define "default" as Nightly (custom build), not safe to update automatically. Once we switched to proper channels updater kicked in, except Mozilla never built binaries for FreeBSD. Not to mention, vendor updates conflict with system package manager. PR: 221541 MFH: 2017Q3 Changes: head/Mk/bsd.gecko.mk head/mail/thunderbird/Makefile head/www/firefox/Makefile head/www/firefox-esr/Makefile head/www/libxul/Makefile head/www/seamonkey/Makefile
A commit references this bug: Author: jbeich Date: Sat Aug 19 14:08:16 UTC 2017 New revision: 448311 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/448311 Log: MFH: r448278 gecko: stop calling home to check for updates after r436423 Upstream seems to define "default" as Nightly (custom build), not safe to update automatically. Once we switched to proper channels updater kicked in, except Mozilla never built binaries for FreeBSD. Not to mention, vendor updates conflict with system package manager. PR: 221541 Approved by: ports-secteam (feld) Changes: _U branches/2017Q3/ branches/2017Q3/Mk/bsd.gecko.mk branches/2017Q3/mail/thunderbird/Makefile branches/2017Q3/www/firefox/Makefile branches/2017Q3/www/firefox-esr/Makefile branches/2017Q3/www/libxul/Makefile branches/2017Q3/www/seamonkey/Makefile