Arctic Fox

[xeno74]

Mario Locati has released a deb package of Arctic Fox 39.2 for Debian PPC64.

Download: arcticfox-39.2-ppc64.deb

It works on the X1000. It has AltiVec support. My package doesn't have AltiVec support.

[xeno74]

Compiling Arctic Fox 39.2 on Fedora 28 PPC64:

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   sudo yum install gtk2-devel dbus-glib-devel autoconf213 yasm mesa-libGL-devel alsa-lib-devel libXt-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel bzip2-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel nspr-devel gcc-c++ libatomic

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   $ cp .mozconfig Arctic-Fox-39.2/

   .mozconfig for PPC64:
   

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   # This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
   # License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
   # file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
   
   export CC="gcc -flax-vector-conversions -O3 -falign-loops=16 -falign-functions=16 -falign-labels=16 -falign-jumps=16"
   export CXX="g++ -flax-vector-conversions -fpermissive -O3 -falign-loops=16 -falign-functions=16 -falign-labels=16 -falign-jumps=16"
   export LDFLAGS="-latomic"
   
   mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-ff-dbg
   
   ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
   ac_add_options --disable-tests
   ac_add_options --disable-debug
   ac_add_options --disable-updater
   ac_add_options --enable-mozril-geoloc
   ac_add_options --disable-webrtc
   ac_add_options --disable-safe-browsing
   ac_add_options --disable-parental-controls
   ac_add_options --enable-release
   ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
   ac_add_options --disable-eme
   ac_add_options --disable-gamepad
   ac_add_options --enable-dbus
   ac_add_options --disable-gio
   ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
   ac_add_options --enable-strip
   ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
   ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
   ac_add_options --with-branding=browser/branding/arcticfox
   ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -fno-schedule-insns2 -fno-lifetime-dse -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks"
   ac_add_options --disable-jemalloc
   

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   cd Arctic-Fox-39.2

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   ./mach build

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   ./mach run

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   ./mach package

   (Creates the self contained archive which you'll find in Arctic-Fox-39.2/obj-ff-dbg/dist)

[xeno74]

Mario Locati has created a deb file of the non-altivec 64-bit version of Arctic Fox 39.2.

arcticfox-39.2.linux-powerpc64-noaltivec.deb

[xeno74]

FYI: The version 40.0 has been released. The project has been moved from wicknix to rmottola, so this is now the main repository.

Link: https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox/releases/tag/v40.0

[xeno74]

Link to the source code: v40.0.tar.gz

[xeno74]

I compiled Arctic Fox 40.0 with the following mozconfig for Linux PowerPC today.

.mozconfig for 32-bit userlands with 64-bit kernels:

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# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

export CC="gcc -m32 -flax-vector-conversions -O3 -falign-loops=16 -falign-functions=16 -falign-labels=16 -falign-jumps=16"
export CXX="g++ -m32 -flax-vector-conversions -fpermissive -O3 -falign-loops=16 -falign-functions=16 -falign-labels=16 -falign-jumps=16"
export LDFLAGS="-latomic"

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-ff-dbg

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --enable-mozril-geoloc
ac_add_options --disable-webrtc
ac_add_options --disable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --disable-parental-controls
ac_add_options --enable-release
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
ac_add_options --disable-eme
ac_add_options --disable-gamepad
ac_add_options --enable-dbus
ac_add_options --disable-gio
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
ac_add_options --with-branding=browser/branding/arcticfox
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --disable-jemalloc
ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
ac_add_options --target=powerpc-linux-gnu 
ac_add_options --host=powerpc-linux-gnu

Download: arcticfox-40.0.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2

It works on Void PPC, MintPPC (Debian Sid), Fienix and also on an old Ubuntu 10.04.

[Primax]

Thanks!
Seems to work fine so far, except: the commit description of GitHub pages are blank.
Can anybody check it?

[Roland]

I compiled Arctic Fox 40.0 with the following mozconfig for Linux PowerPC today.

It works on Void PPC, MintPPC (Debian Sid), Fienix and also on an old Ubuntu 10.04.

Unbelievable... The Bookmarks Toolbar works finally as it should!!! I have been waiting for this for years...

Thank you VERY, VERY MUCH!

[Skateman]

Thanks for Arctic Fox 40 !!



Big picture https://www.skateman.nl/wp-content/uplo ... -12-08.png

[xeno74]

Hey -

I was able to fix PM 31.2 for ppc64. However i no longer have my old ubuntu 12 dev environment to attempt 32bit builds for debian/ubuntu compatible systems.

If you'd like to give it a shot the source is here:

pale-moon-31-ppc-fix.tar.bz2

PM build instructions here: https://developer.palemoon.org/build/linux/
Don't worry about the git section. I already have the submodules and everything in place.

However after it builds, you'll need to swap the LE/BE icu.dat files around again after packaging. I included one in the archive.