Re: Firefox became unstable with 5.2 - caused by PR #44387

Super Bisquit <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
Message-ID <CA+WntOuL4bZPs6LkaQmRFRBvr1hQVW0nuV4O3a1MszTYA1_-gg@mail.gmail.com>
Sorry, Nathan, but do you have a working version of firefox  on a
ppc64 install? Where did you find or even post the instructions for
building.

Thanks much

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/07/13 09:00, Benedek Gergely wrote:
>> On 7 Jan 2013, at 08:55, [email protected] wrote:
>>> What about Dillo and links-gui ?
>>
>> Thats what I use since webkit and firefox stopped building.
>>
>> I should probably find some time to have a look at the patches for http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ and https://code.google.com/p/leopard-webkit/ and put together a more up to date build of webkit-gtk and firefox for ppc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben
>>
>
> Firefox 17 works reliably at least on FreeBSD/powerpc64. They seem to
> have emerged from a bad spell where PPC wasn't supported around Firefox
> 15 and everything works again now.
> -Nathan
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