Re: Firefox 52esr on PPC32 is outdated

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>]

Hi,

I don't know which kind of news you expect? did you do anything?

On my side, ArcticFox, I was able to find out by bisecting (that means 
about one week of compilation attempts on my PowerBook).
Built-in ICU broke and build needs to use system ICU. I have now working 
build again... so a decently usable browser for basic needs.

Current Firefox has a build fix which I am not able to import yet too 
divergent code base, maybe in the future.

On debian there are no issues, I made a binary available.

I did no work on Firefox, last time it didn't work. Generally on a PPC32 
system I expect it to be barely usable, even if it had no bugs. On 
equivalent Intel systems (e.g. a PIII) it is quite slow nowadays, albeit 
usable for basic needs.

Trade-off between more usability and more compatibility.

Riccardo

Leo Historias wrote:
> Any news on this?
>
> Em qui., 31 de out. de 2024 15:00, Leo Historias 
> <leohistoriasanimadas@gmail.com 
> <mailto:leohistoriasanimadas@gmail.com>> escreveu:
>
>     I mean to John. so....
>
>     On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 4:20 AM Riccardo Mottola
>     <riccardo.mottola@libero.it <mailto:riccardo.mottola@libero.it>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Leo Historias wrote:
>         > The port of Firefox 115esr to PPC32,specifically Node.JS
>
>         I'm not working on that, sorry. I work on ArcticFox and got it
>         running
>         on PPC again, btw.
>
>         -R