Firefox 3.6 PPC

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby otakusupreme » 10 Apr 2010, 07:28

ok so could someone make a howto for this cause i am stupid and a little step by step would be helpful in this area, thanks.
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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby ppietro » 10 Apr 2010, 07:49

otakusupreme wrote:ok so could someone make a howto for this cause i am stupid and a little step by step would be helpful in this area, thanks.


What are you stuck on? Installing Firefox 3.6 or installing personas?

If you are stuck on installing Firefox 3.6, here's what to do:

1. Download Firefox to your desktop:
firefox-3.6.3.en-US.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2

2. Open a terminal window.

3. Execute this command from a terminal window:
cd ~/Desktop
bzip2 -dc firefox-3.6.3.en-US.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -


3. Switch to root user with the su command
su

4. Move the resultant firefox folder to /usr/local:
mv firefox /usr/local

5. Create a symbolic link to the firefox starter in /usr/local/bin
ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin

6. Exit out of root:
exit

7. Start Firefox from the command line once:
firefox

That's it! Your firefox icon will now launch 3.6.3 instead of the Firefox you have installed. Don't uninstall your old one. There are plugins and such that the new one will use.

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby otakusupreme » 10 Apr 2010, 09:38

thanks that helped alot. there was just so much discussion that i got lost. by the way i got a thing today about greasemonkey update... should i go ahead and do that?
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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby CronoCloud » 11 Apr 2010, 15:22

Is it just me, or does 3.6.3 crash more often? Haven't found a pattern to it yet. Not that it matters, it does restart more quickly after a crash than 3.0.foo did.

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC CRASH!

Postby roshi » 13 Apr 2010, 20:56

I have experienced no crashes with 3.6.3.
I use it approximately 6 hours per day.

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby ppietro » 15 Aug 2010, 21:36

Hi everyone,

Trying to build 3.6.8 - and it's not going so well. It's complaining about processor architecture - the procedure I outlined above won't work with this source code. There's a chance the PowerPC port is broken. :(

I'll try some different processor switches and report back.

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby pwall » 15 Aug 2010, 23:34

ppietro wrote:Hi everyone,

Trying to build 3.6.8 - and it's not going so well. It's complaining about processor architecture - the procedure I outlined above won't work with this source code. There's a chance the PowerPC port is broken. :(


Hi Paul

You will need to add the following line to your mozconfig file.
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ac_add_options --disable-ipc


In Firefox 3.6.4 IPC crash protection was introduced based on Chromium source code. As far as I know Chromium doesn't support the PowerPC architecture.

Hopefully that fixes it for you.


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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby ppietro » 16 Aug 2010, 01:26

pwall wrote:
ppietro wrote:Hi everyone,

Trying to build 3.6.8 - and it's not going so well. It's complaining about processor architecture - the procedure I outlined above won't work with this source code. There's a chance the PowerPC port is broken. :(


Hi Paul

You will need to add the following line to your mozconfig file.
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ac_add_options --disable-ipc


In Firefox 3.6.4 IPC crash protection was introduced based on Chromium source code. As far as I know Chromium doesn't support the PowerPC architecture.

Hopefully that fixes it for you.


Pat


Yup - I just found that out myself here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325185

It's supposed to be disabled by default, but maybe that's not in the official release tree yet.

> Since this isn't really a 'fix', don't you think we should create bugs to
> implement atomic-ops for these platforms?
>

This should be taken upstream. Although I doubt they'd be interested in it
since their primary arches of interest are x86/amd64/arm. They might be
interested if you provide patches though.


Thanks for posting your solution - it's always nice to have confirmation.

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby ppietro » 16 Aug 2010, 03:45

Firefox 3.6.8 build here:
firefox-3.6.8.en-US.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2

Same notes as the 3.6.3 I posted above:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7285&p=39533#p37998

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby billb » 16 Aug 2010, 04:32

Very nice! Works great here.

Any way to get the IBM Java 6 plugin working with it? Doesn't seem to work via the usual method.
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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby ppietro » 16 Aug 2010, 09:56

billb wrote:Very nice! Works great here.

Any way to get the IBM Java 6 plugin working with it? Doesn't seem to work via the usual method.


I've never found a way. I think there needs to be a change in Java for this to work with new Firefoxes. I don't think IBM has included the necessary changes yet.

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby pwall » 16 Aug 2010, 19:44

billb wrote:
Any way to get the IBM Java 6 plugin working with it? Doesn't seem to work via the usual method.


Hi All

Creating a symlink to libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins no longer works with Firefox >= 3.6. You need to instead point your symlink to libnpjp2.so.

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[pjwall@powerstation plugins]$ ls -l libnpjp2.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jul 26 10:27 libnpjp2.so -> /opt/ibm/java-ppc-60/jre/lib/ppc/libnpjp2.so

Here is a discussion on the new java plugin: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=1576825


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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby ppietro » 16 Aug 2010, 20:01

billb wrote:Any way to get the IBM Java 6 plugin working with it? Doesn't seem to work via the usual method.

ppietro wrote:I've never found a way. I think there needs to be a change in Java for this to work with new Firefoxes. I don't think IBM has included the necessary changes yet.

pwall wrote:Creating a symlink to libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins no longer works with Firefox >= 3.6. You need to instead point your symlink to libnpjp2.so.

Code: Select all
[pjwall@powerstation plugins]$ ls -l libnpjp2.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jul 26 10:27 libnpjp2.so -> /opt/ibm/java-ppc-60/jre/lib/ppc/libnpjp2.so

Here is a discussion on the new java plugin: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=1576825


Nice! Thanks for the heads-up!!

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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby billb » 17 Aug 2010, 02:59

Thanks Pat! :D Tested OK on time.gov and flyordie.com games.

So thats ... (assuming you've installed IBM Java 6 JRE)

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su

<root password>

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cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins


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ln -s /opt/ibm/java-ppc-60/jre/lib/ppc/libnpjp2.so


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exit
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Re: Firefox 3.6 PPC

Postby ppietro » 23 Oct 2010, 02:31

Hi everyone,

Just put a build of Firefox 3.6.11 on my server:
firefox-3.6.11.en-US.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2

You guys know the drill - enjoy!

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