On 5/25/19 4:00 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 5/23/19 8:19 AM, John Gould wrote:
>> Can someone suggest a modern graphical browser for OpenBSD PowerPC?
>> I'm trying to run
>> several G5's and g4 mini's on 6.5 as desktop machines. The basic
>> install works really well but there doesn't seem to be an up to date
>> graphically browser.
>>
>> It's thanks to all the work the devs have put into OpenBSD powerpc
>> that these machine are still very usable. They are hopelessly out of
>> date as far as the Mac OS are concerned!
>
>
> you might try ArcticFox, it has a decent success on Linux PowerPC.
> Several endianness fixes were imported.
>
> It is not "totally" modern, but still more modern than Dillo. Beware
> that you need at least 1G of RAM to be of decent use with modern
> websites, 2GB is better.
>
> Although it is of PaleMoon heritage and thus Linux/Mac heritage, I
> fixed compilation on NetBSD, OpenBSD and lately even FreeBSD compiles
> out of the box.
>
>
> Beware however, that while perfectly usable on older x86, it has no
> working JIT, so JS intensive websites will be slow on PowerPC. Also
> compilation on OpenBSD/ppc was never attempted by me, only on
> Linux/PPC. OpenBSD amd64 however does work.
>
>
> Riccardo
>
> [1] : Official Repo: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox
>
> [2] : My current working fork, which gets regularly pulled into main:
> https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox
>
>
>
If you're going down that path, you should see if you can get TenFourFox
to compile. TenFourFox does have a jit and supports altivec.
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox
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