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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

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

-- Christian

Firefox for Fedora PPC64: kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org

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

News about Firefox for PowerPC: Porting Firefox

-- Christian

Firefox 133.0.3 is available for Debian Sid PPC64.

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

Adrian

xeno74 wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 8:18 am 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.

Screenshot or it didn't happen!