Please test Firefox on ppc64

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

Thanks to the efforts of Debian's Firefox maintainer, the Firefox package
is building again on ppc64 (big-endian) the first time in a long period.

However, we don't know whether Firefox actually works on 64-bit Big-Endian
PowerPC.

Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try?

Thanks,
Adrian

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Post by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669

Adrian

[Michael Cree]

Post by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669

Just installed and given firefox 117.0-1 a spin on ppc64. It segfaults
on startup. Not sure if that is the bug you reference. I can try to
get a backtrace. Hmm the debugging symbols file is massive and gdb is
already up to 85% memory and swap used. Still loading and voraciously
swapping virtual memory. Maybe another day...

Regards,
Michael.

[Carsten Jacobi]

Hello,

I'm running firefox on 64-bit Big-Endian and am till current date stuck
on these packages:

ii  firefox              85.0.1-1        ppc64        Mozilla Firefox
web browser
ii  firefox-esr          78.14.0esr-1+b1 ppc64        Mozilla Firefox
web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR)

Since there was no stable update path after those packages I did
everything possible to stay
on these versions to have a working browser available on my system.
That's why I'm reluctant
on "just trying out the new version", I'm not sure whether I'll be able
to get back to the still
working version in case the new one doesn't run and just crashes.

For some time there was also the "epiphany" web browser available as an
alternative
web-browser with JavaScript support (though I hate JavaScript, but many
Web-Pages
nowadays require it). But also here the last version I had crashed
constantly and I can't
try out a newer version as this would break the dependency chain for the
still working
version of firefox I still have …

Regards,

Carsten

Post by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi!
Thanks to the efforts of Debian's Firefox maintainer, the Firefox package
is building again on ppc64 (big-endian) the first time in a long period.
However, we don't know whether Firefox actually works on 64-bit Big-Endian
PowerPC.
Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try?
Thanks,
Adrian