Re: Firefox on OpenBSD SPARC

On 3/22/10, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]
>
>

I see.  Guess I'll try going back to 3.0.  Thanks.