Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64
Hi Sinan!
On 09/28/2017 09:22 PM, Sinan Gürkan wrote:
> I am running Debian 9 ppc64 with Mate Desktop on A-Eon Cyrus X5000 (Freescale P5020)
>
> Both Firefox-ESR and Qupzilla exits or crashes while browsing.
You most likely ran into this upstream bug [1] which affects big-endian
systems. As far as I can see, there is no new solution yet so it might
be a good idea for you to subscribe to this bug report.
Unfortunately, Firefox upstream doesn't care much about big-endian systems
so they are knowingly accepting patches that causes these regressions. And
even if we had a patch to address this issue, we still have the problem
that Debian's Firefox maintainer is not very responsive when it comes
to patches to address issues on Debian Ports architectures. My patches
to fix firefox-esr on m68k, sh4 and sparc64, for example, have still not
been merged :(.
Debian's Thunderbird maintainer is more welcoming in this regard and he's
always happy to merge patches that fix issues on Debian Ports architectures
and since Thunderbird is based on Firefox, you might be seeing this
crash there as well.
Adrian
> [1] https://bug98304.bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269654
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