Re: Firefox on OpenBSD SPARC

Joe Lannon <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been attempting to run OpenBSD on my Blade 100 since release 4.4.
>  On 4.4 and 4.5, Firefox would always crash on certain JavaScript
> heavy sites such as Google Docs.  I thought this was a bug and waited
> for it to go away...
> 
> Now on 4.6 Firefox won't even start at all.  Just leaves a
> firefox35-bin.core file.

Basically we got stalled at the stage where Firefox 3.5 was the
experimental port and people really were supposed to use 3.0.  And
Firefox 3.0.18 does work on sparc64, at least in principle.  I don't
know if there are any particular sites that reproducibly crash it.

> I can't be the only one who uses Firefox on SPARC...

Well, it is too slow on my Blade 100 (with a remote X11 display)
for any kind of regular use.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]