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 <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 6:05 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > > > <glaub...@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
