Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 08:45 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > I don't think it's actually really any difficult. > > Indeed, thank goodness it is so trivially easy to build things on debian. > I have build -- many things now. For one recent impressive one, the 64 bit > PPC version Lazarus has a long

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Sep 28, 2024, at 6:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 06:14 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> But as detailed in the thread last November, I ran into trouble getting a >> build >> system working in debian PPC for the current Firefox code base. I asked for

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Hello, There are lots of browsers. I tried to classify them by engine. Don't hesitate to notify errors or missing. Browsers based on Chromium are interesting because they integrate WebXR and can work with virtual reality . Browsers based on Mozilla Gecko engine :  - Firefox - GNU IceCat : htt

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread Claudia Neumann
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

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 06:14 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: > But as detailed in the thread last November, I ran into trouble getting a > build > system working in debian PPC for the current Firefox code base. I asked for  > help, but nothing was suggested. So that is still in a folder on my dual G5.

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread Ken Cunningham
> On Sep 28, 2024, at 05:58, Ken Cunningham > wrote: > > Firefox has been broken for some years. > > Of course it will be great if someday it were fixed. I have some practical experience coding in the FireFox code base— a few years ago Riccardo and I collaborated for a few weeks over the

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread 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. J

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 6:05 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 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

Re: About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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 ava

About browsers (again) [was Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller]

2024-09-28 Thread João
Hello Ken, On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 03:29:57PM -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: > We had previously decided that the best browser available for debian PPC was Surely the best browser is a matter of personal choice ;) > SeaLion (https://github.com/wicknix/SeaLion) is the best choice for PowerPC. >