Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

Prior upgrading to OpenBSD 7.4 on my powerbook G4 I did see that there=20
where a couple of webkit based browsers ports such as vimb.=20

It seems that vimb no longer available, but I did not look to find the=20
reason as of why it was possibly removed. (It is still present on 7.3)=20

I was poking around with the idea of running a recent Firefox version on=20
AIX and I was told that apparently there are recent versions of Firefox=20
for Solaris. So, with a bunch of work, running Firefox on BE and on=20
other UNIX's is possible.

I guess that it's lack of interest, resources and possibly hardware to=20
port a recent version of Firefox on macppc OpenBSD. Building Firefox
on an older PowerPC box sure will be long.

As Florian pointed out, Netsurf does work well for simple websites.

I guess that you could ask Landry for more information on the status
of Firefox on PowerPC (He is the maintainer of Firefox).

I would of liked to help, but I no longer have the time to contribute.
Are you planning to help building Firefox for OpenBSD macpp?

If so, from your MacPorts maintenance, I can imagine that you have the=20
required hardware. If you don't, in the following weeks, I could setup a=20
G4 tower and give you ssh access to it so you could leave Firefox=20
building on it.

And if there's enough interest, I can check if I could setup an OpenBSD=20
macppc vm on a Linux PPC64 LE host and benefit from kvm as it's quite a=20
powerful machine, but I don't know if OpenBSD macppc runs under kvm. I'd=20
have to check that out.

Let me know!

On Sunday, February 18th, 2024 at 08:07, Florian M=C3=A4rkl <openbsd@floria=
nmaerkl.de> wrote:

> Hi Sergey,
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> last time I tried, netsurf from ports worked fairly well.
> It does not support all the latest web standards, but can
> display simple websites.
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> By the way, a huge thanks for your work on MacPorts maintenance for=20
> ppc. I am an avid user of both Mac OS X with MacPorts and OpenBSD on=20
> multiple G5 machines and find it amazing to see how much is still=20
> possible with them!
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> Cheers
> Florian
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> > Am 17.02.2024 um 22:11 schrieb Sergey Fedorov [email protected]:
> >=20
> > Greetings,
> >=20
> > Could someone say what is the current state of modern web browsers for
> > PowerPC?
> > Is anything working? I tried to install via pkg_add and nothing was
> > available, sadly. (Unless I missed something.)
> >=20
> > By the way, I assume the following code is wrong, and would prevent
> > qutebrowser from building:
> > https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/0bf6e78f8ed8dfcc1d253d505b23eeed7=
c28606c/www/qutebrowser/Makefile#L43-L49
> > It is very likely that something broken both on ppc64 and i386 cannot w=
ork
> > fine on ppc, that too Rust-related. I believe, powerpc should be added =
to
> > the exclusion list for Rust-using dependency.