Oh, Qupzilla isn't bad, better than Chromium.

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On Sat, Sep 8, 2018, 4:43 AM Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You'll probably need to update it:
> rustup update
> I think.  The rust in debs was too old when I tried.
>
> Sent from my Motorola XT1527
>
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018, 4:38 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
> glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> It should actually be possible to bootstrap the Rust compiler and Cargo
>> in version 1.24 for armel and armhf and I can take of that if no one
>> disagrees.
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>> > On Sep 8, 2018, at 9:06 AM, Marc <ma...@sedacon.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I use Raspberry Pies running Debian Stretch (armhf 32-bit) with a
>> > custom Linux kernel for both my Desktop and Portable systems.  I have
>> > been using firefox-esr (with some modifications for speed and security)
>> > as a browser so far.
>> >
>> > Yesterday's message to debian-security-announce was a bit of a morning
>> > shock for me.  Namely this part:
>> >
>> > Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> In addition, the new Firefox packages require Rust to build. A
>> >> compatible Rust toolchain has been backported to Debian stretch, but is
>> >> not available for all architectures which previously supported the
>> >> purely C++-based Firefox packages. Thus, the new Firefox packages
>> >> don't support the armel, armhf, mips, mips64el and mipsel architectures
>> >> at this point.
>> >
>> > Apparently lacking enough caffeine, I could not find any relevant
>> > discussions about this so far.  I did notice that the current version
>> > of firefox-esr for armhf is present in sid (but I am loath to run
>> > sid on production systems), and that mozilla.org does not seem to
>> > distribute any binaries for arm.
>> >
>> > What's the realistic way forward from here, assuming that I would like
>> > a browser with security support?  Pull firefox-esr plus dependencies
>> > from sid (probably quite intrusive)?  Switch to chromium-browser?
>> > Switch to another distribution or even a BSD?  Or am I overreacting and
>> > should just wait a couple of days for (Rust and) Firefox to magically
>> > appear in stretch-backports? :)
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Marc
>>
>>

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