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Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64



Hello,

I'm running firefox on 64-bit Big-Endian and am till current date stuck on these packages:

ii  firefox              85.0.1-1        ppc64        Mozilla Firefox web browser ii  firefox-esr          78.14.0esr-1+b1 ppc64        Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR)

Since there was no stable update path after those packages I did everything possible to stay on these versions to have a working browser available on my system. That's why I'm reluctant on "just trying out the new version", I'm not sure whether I'll be able to get back to the still
working version in case the new one doesn't run and just crashes.

For some time there was also the "epiphany" web browser available as an alternative web-browser with JavaScript support (though I hate JavaScript, but many Web-Pages nowadays require it). But also here the last version I had crashed constantly and I can't try out a newer version as this would break the dependency chain for the still working
version of firefox I still have …

Regards,

Carsten

Am 31.08.23 um 23:06 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
Hi!

Thanks to the efforts of Debian's Firefox maintainer, the Firefox package
is building again on ppc64 (big-endian) the first time in a long period.

However, we don't know whether Firefox actually works on 64-bit Big-Endian
PowerPC.

Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try?

Thanks,
Adrian



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