Hi,
I tested on iMAC G5 with Radeon graphic card
epiphany-browser : segmentation fault
dillo -> better than links but no pictures, not very comfortable.
CU
Claudia
Am Samstag, 28. September 2024, 14:58:36 CEST schrieb Ken Cunningham:
> 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/deskt
> >>> op/firefox/patches>
> > Jeff