Prior upgrading to OpenBSD 7.4 on my powerbook G4 I did see that there where a couple of webkit based browsers ports such as vimb.
It seems that vimb no longer available, but I did not look to find the reason as of why it was possibly removed. (It is still present on 7.3) I was poking around with the idea of running a recent Firefox version on AIX and I was told that apparently there are recent versions of Firefox for Solaris. So, with a bunch of work, running Firefox on BE and on other UNIX's is possible. I guess that it's lack of interest, resources and possibly hardware to port a recent version of Firefox on macppc OpenBSD. Building Firefox on an older PowerPC box sure will be long. As Florian pointed out, Netsurf does work well for simple websites. I guess that you could ask Landry for more information on the status of Firefox on PowerPC (He is the maintainer of Firefox). I would of liked to help, but I no longer have the time to contribute. Are you planning to help building Firefox for OpenBSD macpp? If so, from your MacPorts maintenance, I can imagine that you have the required hardware. If you don't, in the following weeks, I could setup a G4 tower and give you ssh access to it so you could leave Firefox building on it. And if there's enough interest, I can check if I could setup an OpenBSD macppc vm on a Linux PPC64 LE host and benefit from kvm as it's quite a powerful machine, but I don't know if OpenBSD macppc runs under kvm. I'd have to check that out. Let me know! On Sunday, February 18th, 2024 at 08:07, Florian Märkl <open...@florianmaerkl.de> wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > last time I tried, netsurf from ports worked fairly well. > It does not support all the latest web standards, but can > display simple websites. > > By the way, a huge thanks for your work on MacPorts maintenance for > ppc. I am an avid user of both Mac OS X with MacPorts and OpenBSD on > multiple G5 machines and find it amazing to see how much is still > possible with them! > > Cheers > Florian > > > Am 17.02.2024 um 22:11 schrieb Sergey Fedorov vital....@gmail.com: > > > > Greetings, > > > > Could someone say what is the current state of modern web browsers for > > PowerPC? > > Is anything working? I tried to install via pkg_add and nothing was > > available, sadly. (Unless I missed something.) > > > > By the way, I assume the following code is wrong, and would prevent > > qutebrowser from building: > > https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/0bf6e78f8ed8dfcc1d253d505b23eeed7c28606c/www/qutebrowser/Makefile#L43-L49 > > It is very likely that something broken both on ppc64 and i386 cannot work > > fine on ppc, that too Rust-related. I believe, powerpc should be added to > > the exclusion list for Rust-using dependency.
