Re: Firefox 133 test package for ppc64

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <d5d11e026ae9cb05a571230c0dfe8aa2c4f1dcc7.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hi Damien,

On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 23:00 +1000, Damien Stewart wrote:
> I can confirm this on my system. Which is has an R7 250 in it and 
> because of that lacks hardware 3d and 2d by the looks of it, so I need 
> to rely on fbdev. Firefox works a lot better by not crashing on startup. 
> It opens up a window but only has borders as inside content is blank. I 
> also see it ignoring menus. But the menu does pop up with the right side 
> widget. Once of the checkmarks turned on but the menu bar would not. It 
> would not quit. I had to kill it with kill. I didn't notice any 
> unusually high cpu usage when I ran top to check. From CLI it did not 
> print any messages. But I could Ctrl-C it to quit.

This sounds more like a configuration issue. Did you try purging your
.mozilla directory or renaming it? I have a really hard time believing
that it's actually broken as I verified it myself as you can see from
my screenshot.


FWIW, I did not use any kind of acceleration. Just plain X.

Adrian

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