Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

[Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>]

On 10 December 2018 at 6:23PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> swamprock wrote:
> > Meanwhile, there is a fork of Pale Moon 27.x called Arctic Fox that 
> > can be used on 32-bit PowerPC-https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/
> >
> > More 
> > info:https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/arctic-fox-web-browser-for-10-6-32-64-bit.2133051/
>
> I need to chime in, being one of the main contributors behind 
> ArcticFox, although it is not directly my idea.
>
>
> I had it working on Linux/PPC too and compiling with gcc 6.5 on Debian 
> (you can check my fork on github in case, but it gets pulled in 
> regularly). It could even play videos off you-tube although ad a 
> ridiculous frame rate
>
> If someone can help me with getting gcc7 and gcc8 working, welcome!!
>
> Don't hold your breath on JS though: no JIT for PPC and stability is 
> (still) dubious. Some other PPC enthusiasts got it compiling then also 
> on PPC 64, although there were some endianness issues which did not 
> happen in 32bit, there were also some stbaility issues.
> I did some progress by packporting numerous fixes, but I lack 
> currently the PPC machine to test it on and am working on Intel.
> Right now on Intel I can use major sites: github, facebook, youtube... 
> even web mail. It keeps me motivated!
>
> Riccardo
>
>
> PS: Adrian, I hope you get out a new ISO soon, so I try reinstalling 
> the iBook and test again :) I got the machine exactly for working on 
> ArcticFox
Hi Riccardo,

Many thanks for ArcticFox! I successfully tested it on my AmigaOne X1000 
today. (64-bit 1.8 GHz dual-core PWRficient PA6T-1682M PowerPC with AltiVec)

Screenshot of ArcticFox on Fienix (32-bit Debian based distribution with 
a 64-bit kernel): 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/photo/115515624056477014971/6633402818128594658

Screenshot of ArcticFox on ubuntu MATE 16.04.5 LTS 32-bit PowerPC with a 
64-bit kernel: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/photo/115515624056477014971/6633406944852828306

Unfortunately it doesn't work on our AmigaOne X5000. (Freescale P5020 
CPU 2GHz, 64-bit e5500 dual-core PowerPC SoC without AltiVec)

Did you compile it with G4/AltiVec compiler flags?

Thanks,
Christian