Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

2024-02-18 Thread George Koehler
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 05:11:49 +0800 Sergey Fedorov wrote: > Could someone say what is the current state of *modern* web browsers for > PowerPC? All 3 major engines are broken on powerpc or powerpc64: - www/chromium recently broke on i386, because it is now too big for 32-bit pointers. It

Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

2024-02-18 Thread Florian Märkl
Am 19.02.2024 um 07:41 schrieb Sergio Had : > Since you use G5s, > • Any change of making ppc64 to work? That would be a deal-breaker. Until just now, I assumed the powerpc64 variant of OpenBSD was little endian, but apparently it is big endian, which would be promising for the G5. I am not

Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

2024-02-18 Thread Sergio Had
On Feb 18, 2024 at 21:07 +0800, Florian Märkl , wrote: > last time I tried, netsurf from ports worked fairly well. > It does not support all the latest web standards, but can display simple > websites. I tried a few browsers advised earlier in MacRumors OpenBSD thread, and none of the better

Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

2024-02-18 Thread Sergio Had
Greetings, On Feb 19, 2024 at 06:41 +0800, Roberto Arturo Gonzalez Godinez , wrote: > Prior upgrading to OpenBSD 7.4 on my powerbook G4 I did see that there > where a couple of webkit based browsers ports such as vimb. > > It seems that vimb no longer available, but I did not look to find the >

Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

2024-02-18 Thread Roberto Arturo Gonzalez Godinez
Prior upgrading to OpenBSD 7.4 on my powerbook G4 I did see that there where a couple of webkit based browsers ports such as vimb. It seems that vimb no longer available, but I did not look to find the reason as of why it was possibly removed. (It is still present on 7.3) I was poking around

Re: Modern browsers on OpenBSD for PowerPC?

2024-02-18 Thread Florian Märkl
Hi Sergey, last time I tried, netsurf from ports worked fairly well. It does not support all the latest web standards, but can display simple websites. By the way, a huge thanks for your work on MacPorts maintenance for ppc. I am an avid user of both Mac OS X with MacPorts and OpenBSD on