Comment 16 for bug 1583849

I just updated/graded my PPC units yesterday, didn't look too closely over
the whole list, it was large, 60 packages plus a kernel. Obviously since
this bug was posted FF was repaired, but, we know that the various ubuntu
distros are phasing PPC out . . . the browser is what needs the most
maintenance.

Don't know if it's possible to find a distro that is going to continue to
support PPC and get the FF package from there?? Most everybody uses
Debian, but the plan is for them to drop PPC as well. Personally my PPC
computers are RAM challenged, as well as cpu challenged and my use is
intermittent; I spent a few minutes checking another distro a couple days
ago, but the "server was down" for downloads . . . after several tries I
moved on.

If I get a moment to boot my PPC computer I'll try to check what version of
FF I have; I definitely launched FF in both of them yesterday, and . . . it
worked, so did Qupzilla . . . .

F

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 8:21 PM, ernsteiswuerfel <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Nice to see that bug fixed upstream! Will there be new PPC-builds of
> Firefox? ATM there are none in the repository...
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> Title:
> Firefox > 44 is broken on all big-endian architectures
>
> Status in Mozilla Firefox:
> Fix Released
> Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> OK, the reason I'm posting back here, running Lu 16.04 on an PPC
> iBook, and MATE/XFCE 16.04 on a PM ST. . . did a dist-upgrade today,
> so it now running the new "22" kernel and saw in the list of upgrades
> new updates to FF and T-bird . . . on both machines after reboot FF
> window frame loads . . . and then crashes . . . no data is ever filled
> into the browser window.
>
> The iBook error says it "doesn't have enough memory to report the
> problem" . . . and on the PM . . . apparently it says the error report
> was "corrupted" . . . no launchpad window opened in the browser when I
> clicked on the "report the problem."
>
> Tried to revert to the old kernel in the iBook several times,
> seemingly failed to boot the old one . . . shut it down.
>
> I went to the PM running 16.04 U-MATE and tried the same dist-upgrade
> via console there, that upgrade was much larger than the Lu system,
> but subsequently FF also then failed to launch w/o crashing . . .
> installed Midori to make an apple user post, but when I tried to start
> a new thread there Midori crashed as well.
>
> I ran "apt-get -f install" in both the iBook & the PM . . . nothing
> showed up. No "comment" in the terminal during the upgrade asking any
> questions or reporting "problems" . . . but FF is kaput!!!!
>
> I'm back in OSX 10.5 side until things cool down for the browsers in
> 16.04 PPC Lu & U-MATE/XFCE.
>
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