Comment 3 for bug 1583849

@John:

Thanks for the follow-up . . . appreciate the suggestion on downgrading;
however it seemed that there was some problem with Midori as well . . .
??? Not a whole lot of options for browsers in PPC . . . hopefully FF will
pull itself together.

F

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> As you can see in the linked upstream bug report, Firefox is currently
> broken on all big-endian architectures. The only known workaround for
> this is currently downgrading to Firefox 44.
>
> Adrian
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> Title:
> dist-upgrade & FF upgrade breaks FF & Midori 16.04 PPC
>
> Status in Mozilla Firefox:
> Confirmed
> Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> 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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