On Fri, 31 May 2019 20:59:59 +0000
Adolph Kahan <aka...@ghsystems.com> wrote:

> Mark, it does not run anymore on any of the new mainframes. It will
> install and start to come up and then crash with a segmentation
> fault. Mozilla has been aware of the problem.  
> 
> Here is a link to the Bugzilla 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1799993

I believe newer Firefox versions (64+ or 65+) shouldn't crash, should
generally work, although they might present incorrect colors due endian
issues. Work has been done for FF to run on ppc64, so s390x should work
fine too.


                Dan
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of Mark
> Post Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 4:51 PM
> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Google Chrome on Red Hat?
> 
> On 5/31/19 4:16 PM, Adolph Kahan wrote:
> > Hi David, I was also looking for either Firefox or Chrome to run on
> > z/Linux. At present none of these work on z/Linux.
> >
> > The only browser that will run on z/Linux is MIDORI - 
> > https://www.midori-browser.org/
> 
> That is incorrect. Mozilla Firefox has been available on mainframe
> Linux for rather a long time. I've built it numerous times for
> Slack/390.
> 
> 
> Mark Post
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