Hi Jeffrey! On Mon, 2023-11-20 at 15:37 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM Ken Cunningham > <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > The one I have installed is: > > > > firefox/unstable,now 119.0.1-1 ppc64 > > > > and it has a segmentation fault when you launch it. > > Out of curiosity... would that happen to be a G4 or a non-Altivec machine?
There is currently no up-to-date version of Firefox for 32-bit PowerPC since Firefox currently requires NodeJS to build which is not available on 32-bit PowerPC at the moment. It is actually possible, however, to use transpile the JavaScript files from x86_64 for 32-bit PowerPC so that NodeJS is actually not needed. The Debian package does not implement such a mechanism at the moment though while Oracle does it on Solaris for SPARC [1]. Anyways, this particular crash a known upstream bug in Firefox [2]. I wonder whether it might be fixed by this particular patch [3]. Adrian > [1] > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/wrapper-node > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669 > [3] > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches/firefox-53-sparc-gfx-atomicops.patch -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
