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decryphe:
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

ClassicHasClass:
No, Firefox should work and build fine. I haven't done a build against central in a couple weeks, but I'm typing this in Firefox 71 on Fedora 31 on a Talos II, so I know at minimum that mozilla-release works. What does your mozconfig look like? The ones I use are here:

https://www.talospace.com/2019/12/firefox-71-on-power.html

(which uses the same ones as ...)

https://www.talospace.com/2019/05/firefox-67-on-power.html

decryphe:
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.

xilinder:
Yeah, I ran into the same problem and reported it. Meanwhile I exported my bookmarks to a USB stick from another computer, moved that 'Boormarks.html' file to my Ubuntu 19.10 home folder and set firefox home to open that page. Not ideal, but it works.

ClassicHasClass:

--- Quote from: decryphe 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.

--- End quote ---

Yes, clang doesn't work properly. It's possible that gold has been fixed, but I'd still stick to GNU ld (bfd).


--- Quote ---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.

--- End quote ---

I just do -j24 for makes myself, but largely because I want a few threads so I can play Descent. :) How much RAM is in your system? This machine has 32GB.

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