Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

[Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>]

Hi All,

I have Debian Sid PowerPC (PPC32) on my A-EON AmigaOne X1000 Nemo (P.A. 
Semi PA6T). I have the same problems with Firefox ESR.

Adrian, could you try to get in touch with the Firefox maintainer? I 
think you can better discuss with him about the problems.

Thanks,
Christian

On 28.09.2017 23:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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