Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC

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xeno74
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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC

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Hi All,

Julian had a great idea! He successfully installed the latest Firefox ESR 52.5.2esr-1 from the old Debian 8 on ubuntu MATE 16.04.3 LTS today! :-) He doesn't need the setting 'network.http.spdy.enabled.http2 false' in 'about:config'.

Download: firefox-esr_52.5.2esr-1~deb8u1_powerpc.deb

@Julian
Many thanks for this great idea!

Cheers,
Christian
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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC

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Thunderbird 52.5.2 has been released for Debian Sid PowerPC. You can install it with # apt-get install thunderbird.

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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC

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Firefox for Fedora PPC64: kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org
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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC

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Hi All,

The Power Progress Community has released the Firefox ESR 52.8.0 (64 bit) recompiled with gcc 7.3.0 and patched for Debian Sid ppc64. Packages are available in their repository.

Repository: https://repo.powerprogress.org/debian

Please test it.

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Christian
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Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC

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News about Firefox for PowerPC: Porting Firefox

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