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Re: Firefox and iceweasel for Linux PPC
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:14 pm
by xeno74
Srtest wrote:I have it right now on my Ubuntu 16.10 LXQt and there is a major bug that collapses the browser, or, if you use the trick I provided which forces threaded tabs then only the "bad" tab collapses while the browser stays open. I think it might be something to do with java although I don't have the personal tools to asses it. Of course the issue of PowerBE as a cause of bugs is always there and the trouble in compiling it over the last few versions suggest that. Another direction could be me using SI and FF pushing reliance on hardware acceleration or an addon which relies on something like that (although it still behaves like that after disabling addons). Lastly, it doesn't happen on all of the pages.
Hi Srtest,
Thanks a lot for your explanation.
Could you please test the 4.9 test kernels too? It's important because there are cross compiled.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: Firefox and iceweasel for Linux PPC
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 5:50 am
by xeno74
Re: Firefox and iceweasel for Linux PPC
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 2:43 pm
by xeno74
Screenshot of Debian Sid PowerPC with the new Firefox
49.0-4.
Unfortunately Firefox
49.0-4 isn't really stable. I would recommend you to use Firefox
45.4.0esr-2 on Debian instead. You can install Firefox
45.4.0esr-2 with
apt-get install iceweasel
Re: Firefox and iceweasel for Linux PPC
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 2:06 pm
by xeno74
Firefox
50 is available for Debian
Sid/experimental PowerPC.
The good news is, that Firefox 50 is more stable than Firefox 49.
You need Debian Sid with the configured experimental repository in the sources.list.
Installation:
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# apt-get install -t experimental firefox
Screenshot of Firefox 50 on Debian Sid PowerPC:
Re: Firefox and iceweasel for Linux PPC
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 9:53 pm
by xeno74
The new SeaMonkey 2.40 is available for openSUSE Tumbleweed PPC64:
Re: Firefox and iceweasel for Linux PPC
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 1:10 pm
by xeno74
The new Firefox
50.0.2 is available for Debian
Sid/experimental PowerPC.
Re: Firefox and iceweasel for Linux PPC
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:04 am
by xeno74
Bye-bye Icedove. Welcome Thunderbird
45.6.0! The new Thunderbird is available for Debian
Sid/experimental PowerPC.
icedove (1:45.6.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium
The Icedove packages are de-branded back to the official Mozilla branding.
With the removing of the Debian branding the packages are also renamed
back to the official names used by Mozilla.
The Thunderbird package is using a different default profile folder, the
default profile folder is now '$(HOME)/.thunderbird'.
The users profile folder, that was used in Icedove. will get migrated to the
new profile folder on the first start, that can take a little bit more time.
Please read README.Debian for getting more information about the changes, and
possible needed trouble solving.
Note also #816679 containing some legal facts.
-- Carsten Schoenert <
c.schoenert@t-online.de> Sun, 4 Sep 2016 18:50:00 +0200
Installation:
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# apt-get install -t experimental thunderbird
Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:16 am
by xeno74
Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:32 am
by xeno74
Hi All,
I installed Firefox
51.0.1-1 with
apt-get install -t experimental firefox on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32) yesterday. Unfortunately it doesn't start.
I posted the problem on the Debian PowerPC mailing list yesterday.
Link:
Firefox 51.0.1-1 on Debian Sid/experimental PowerPC (PPC32): Segmentation fault
Cheers,
Christian
Re: Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 9:17 am
by xeno74