On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 09:26:04 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 5:09 AM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > firefox:mipsel still exists in the archive, but is severely outdated and > > likely to have a very large number of security vulnerabilities. > > Is there an upgrade path for users on mipsel? Do they have a graphical > web browser they can install, even if it is not Firefox or Chrome?
Please note that this is firefox (the short-term-support browser that is considered unsuitable for stable releases and only exists in unstable), not firefox-esr (the longer-term-support browser that exists in testing and stable). firefox-esr already disappeared from mipsel before bookworm, and is out of date on the mips* architecture family in bullseye-security and buster-security, but that's out of scope for this request. But, yes, there is an upgrade path. GNOME Web (epiphany-browser) is a fully-featured WebKit-based browser and apparently exists on mipsel (although probably nobody has ever tried it on that architecture, so it's anyone's guess whether it works). More minimal browsers like netsurf-gtk also exist, and are probably more viable on 32-bit mips hardware than any of the major browser engines would be. smcv