Fwd: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

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From: Leo Historias <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>


Any news yet?

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 8:13 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ricardo,
>
> On Thu, 2024-11-14 at 11:25 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > I don't know which kind of news you expect? did you do anything?
>
> Agreed.
>
> > On my side, ArcticFox, I was able to find out by bisecting (that means
> > about one week of compilation attempts on my PowerBook).
> > Built-in ICU broke and build needs to use system ICU. I have now working
> > build again... so a decently usable browser for basic needs.
>
> FWIW, you can get access to to a PowerPC machine running big-endian Linux
> either though OpenPOWER at OSUOSL or the GCC Compile Farm. You don't have
> to do the bisecting on your old PowerBook ;-).
>
> > Current Firefox has a build fix which I am not able to import yet too
> > divergent code base, maybe in the future.
> >
> > On debian there are no issues, I made a binary available.
> >
> > I did no work on Firefox, last time it didn't work. Generally on a PPC32
> > system I expect it to be barely usable, even if it had no bugs. On
> > equivalent Intel systems (e.g. a PIII) it is quite slow nowadays, albeit
> > usable for basic needs.
> >
> > Trade-off between more usability and more compatibility.
>
> For current Firefox on 32-bit PowerPC, we would need to come up with a way
> to cross-transpile the embedded Javascript code in Firefox from x86_64.
>
> Adrian
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