Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]
Firefox has been broken for some years. That’s not really a matter of opinion :) :)
Of course it will be great if someday it were fixed.
Epiphany is OK for simple things like viewing the gnome help files, but you will likely find as I did it can’t handle most current web sites you may try.
Just pointing out we went around all this before, recently, and the only really functional browser anyone found at present was SeaLion. I was glad to have it suggested, and have been using it since then with good but not complete success. So I thought I would share that with you.
But feel free not to use it ;) :)
K
> On Sep 28, 2024, at 04:25, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 6:05 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hello João,
>>
>>> On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 10:36 +0100, João wrote:
>>> SeaLion is definitely worth considering, but it is not part of the distribution,
>>> and it would be desirable if Debian PPC (we are talking about big endian PPC,
>>> and I'm using PPC64 myself) would have a modern featurefull browser available.
>>>
>>> Of course everyone (I should say most people ;)) would want Firefox, but from
>>> the threads you quote below I was under the impressions that there was little
>>> hope to get it working, but from Adrian's email on this thread I get the
>>> impression that it is still worth pursuing?
>>
>> Oracle ships a current version of Firefox on Solaris SPARC which is a big-endian
>> target and they have published all of their patches in their Github repository
>> for the Solaris userland [1].
>>
>> Thus, someone that is interested in Firefox on big-endian PowerPC should sit down
>> and take the time to try building a Debian Firefox package with the Oracle patches
>> applied.
>
> This patch appears to be very relevant:
> <https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches/Bug1888396.patch>.
> It provides the big- and little-endian dance.
>
>>> Would packaging SeaLion in Debian be a worthwhile alternative goal?
>>
>> A web browser is a huge potential security thread so packaging and maintaining it
>> requires a lot of patience and diligence. For that very reason, the Debian FTP
>> team will most likely reject a SeaLion package if it's submitted unless there is
>> a dedicated maintainer behind it.
>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches
>
> Jeff
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