Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux PPC

[xeno74]

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

[xeno74]

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

-- Christian

[xeno74]

Firefox for Fedora PPC64: kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org

[xeno74]

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.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

News about Firefox for PowerPC: Porting Firefox

-- Christian

[xeno74]

Firefox 133.0.3 is available for Debian Sid PPC64.

Package uploaded to unreleased. Will be installable in a few hours.

Adrian

[xeno74]

Package is available now: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-port ... f/firefox/

I have also built version 138.0.1 which I am uploading as well.

Adrian

[Hypex]

Firefox 133.0.3 is available for Debian Sid PPC64.

This is somewhat my fault a little as I instigated this on the Debian mailing list. I went bug hunting to see why it was crashing. The simple fix was found to simply disable RLBox since WASM has endian issues. So working around it for now. Other s390x patches were also brought in.

But here's something real funny. I got it working on Ubuntu Precise! LOL!

Okay I slightly cheated as I used a chroot to do it. But it works really well as a fast VM! Look at those Assets.

I had to initially run it in safe mode and then tell it to reset the profile.

[Hypex]

Screenshot or it didn't happen!