There's https://basilisk-browser.org/download.shtml too.
Le 15/09/2024 à 18:31, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
Hi,
Leo Historias wrote:
They should update firefox to the latest one considering it is
outdated and 52esr is out of support. 115ESR or 128esr is more
updated than 52esr.
because Mozilla makes things unbuildable and unportable nowadays. Even
if you could get it to run it would be full of endianness bugs.
Also, if you compare to the 32bit version on Intel it is of limited
use on single-core processors comparable to a G4. Only on the rarer
Core Duo it is usable for daily browsing.
Sadly, most issues apply to ppc64 too, except more computing power.
For browsing on PPC or SPARC or similar one is better served with
various forks of Firefox and PaleMoon, like SeaLion, ArcticFox,
WhiteStar. They are not in the official debian repository
An intermediate compromise would be SeaMonkey which I was able to
compile myself up to its butlast release at least on FreeBSD/amd64 -
it doesn't have yet exotic dependencies beyond rust, but I didn't
attempt on Debian yet.
Still, since those forks derive from Mozilla, they suffer from the
questionable sources of upstream in the long run and suffer from the
limited manpower applied to the projects.
I do know, since I (try) to maintain ArcticFox.
Also, bad news for the latest version: it is for some unknown reason
broken on Debian PPC. It works on Debian Intel and PPC works on
NetBSD... I don't have other Linux PPC systems to test.
Given it takes 6-7 hours to compile, even bisecting is hard.
Furthermore it requires python 2.7, and this excludes my second bild
system which could help. My attempts to generate a new python 2.7
failed and I gave up.
So... for now, no PPC.
https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox/issues/210
Riccardo
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