Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:35:29 +0400 From: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru> To: "mexas@bris.ac.uk" <mexas@bris.ac.uk>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any javascript browser works on sparc64? Message-ID: <3852271403166929@web18g.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <201406190826.s5J8QQlS060596@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201406190826.s5J8QQlS060596@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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19.06.2014, 12:26, "Anton Shterenlikht" <mexas@bris.ac.uk>: > I had to switch to sparc64 for my X clients. > www/firefox is blocked by multimedia/libvpx. > > Can anybody recommend a working web browser with > javascript? > It should be possible to build Firefox without libvpx which is needed only to decode WebM HTML5 video (I guess you can get along with it on sparc64 :) So I would try to hack port (or maybe even Firefox source if there is no appropriate configure option - there shouldn't be a lot of places in code where libvpx is used) Alternatively, you can try Konqueror, but it's JS support is somewhat outdated. Maybe something WebKit-based will also work for you (but not Chromium!) -- Regards, Konstantin
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