Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

There's https://basilisk-browser.org/download.shtml too.


Le 15/09/2024 à 18:31, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
> Hi,
>
>
> Leo Historias wrote:
>> They should update firefox to the latest one considering it is 
>> outdated and 52esr is out of support. 115ESR or 128esr is more 
>> updated than 52esr.
>
> because Mozilla makes things unbuildable and unportable nowadays. Even 
> if you could get it to run it would be full of endianness bugs.
> Also, if you compare to the 32bit version on Intel it is of limited 
> use on single-core processors comparable to a G4. Only on the rarer 
> Core Duo it is usable for daily browsing.
> Sadly, most issues apply to ppc64 too, except more computing power.
>
> For browsing on PPC or SPARC or similar one is better served with 
> various forks of Firefox and PaleMoon, like SeaLion, ArcticFox, 
> WhiteStar. They are not in the official debian repository
>
> An intermediate compromise would be SeaMonkey which I was able to 
> compile myself up to its butlast release at least on FreeBSD/amd64 - 
> it doesn't have yet exotic dependencies beyond rust, but I didn't 
> attempt on Debian yet.
>
> Still, since those forks derive from Mozilla, they suffer from the 
> questionable sources of upstream in the long run and suffer from the 
> limited manpower applied to the projects.
> I do know, since I (try) to maintain ArcticFox.
>
> Also, bad news for the latest version: it is for some unknown reason 
> broken on Debian PPC. It works on Debian Intel and PPC works on 
> NetBSD... I don't have other Linux PPC systems to test.
> Given it takes 6-7 hours to compile, even bisecting is hard. 
> Furthermore it requires python 2.7, and this excludes my second bild 
> system which could help. My attempts to generate a new python 2.7 
> failed and I gave up.
> So... for now, no PPC.
>
> https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox/issues/210
>
>
> Riccardo
>
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