Re: Bug#1040827: RM: firefox [mipsel] -- RoQA; severely outdated, depends on transitional libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 09:26:04 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 5:09 AM Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> > firefox:mipsel still exists in the archive, but is severely outdated and
> > likely to have a very large number of security vulnerabilities.
>
> Is there an upgrade path for users on mipsel? Do they have a graphical
> web browser they can install, even if it is not Firefox or Chrome?
Please note that this is firefox (the short-term-support browser that is
considered unsuitable for stable releases and only exists in unstable),
not firefox-esr (the longer-term-support browser that exists in testing
and stable). firefox-esr already disappeared from mipsel before bookworm,
and is out of date on the mips* architecture family in bullseye-security
and buster-security, but that's out of scope for this request.
But, yes, there is an upgrade path. GNOME Web (epiphany-browser) is
a fully-featured WebKit-based browser and apparently exists on mipsel
(although probably nobody has ever tried it on that architecture, so it's
anyone's guess whether it works). More minimal browsers like netsurf-gtk
also exist, and are probably more viable on 32-bit mips hardware than
any of the major browser engines would be.
smcv
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