Comment 19 for bug 1583849

For my PPC machines I'm thinking Xenial is the "final destination" . . . on
my 933 MHz iBook, everything loads very slowly . . . not even thinking
about non-LTS options for them.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:36 AM, ernsteiswuerfel <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Yes, Firefox is in Xenial's repository but not in Yakkety's or Zesty's:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=zesty&arch=
> powerpc&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=firefox
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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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