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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Firefox Status

« on: January 02, 2020, 04:17:17 pm »

With those hints I managed to get it working, two main points:
- Clang doesn't compile it right yet, I had to force using gcc/g++
- Not sure about the selection of a different linker, it did not make any apparent difference.

I opted to fetch apt-get source firefox and build it with an updated mozconfig.in that sets:
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc
export CXX=/usr/bin/g++
Also had to limit threads to 24, I ran out of RAM on 32 threads.

Successfully running mainline firefox installed through a selfmade deb-package.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Firefox Status

« on: January 01, 2020, 03:44:01 pm »

Hello Everyone!

Finally I got a hold of the Blackbird I ordered and have gotten around to build a nice desktop around it. I'm using Ubuntu 19.10 with KDE on it, works pretty nicely out of the box, except Firefox.

There's two issues I'm having trouble with right now: It can't store browsing history (seems to be an issue with sqlite) and many pages (including addons.mozilla.org) crash the tab while loading without error message.
I've tried building from source to get the newest version, which did work, but that version crashes during start after creating the UI. See console output after "./mach run".

I did check the https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Firefox wiki entry, but it's mostly for big-endian OSes, whereas Ubuntu is running in little-endian mode.

My main question would be, what's the current status on getting Firefox running nicely on POWER? What's currently missing?

Regards