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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:47:34 -0500
From:      "Michael Johnson" <ahze@ahze.net>
To:        "Christian Baer" <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <b2203fed0701180747w20d8d14ft1633790115bca70d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <eoii23$nn9$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
References:  <eoii23$nn9$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>

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On 1/16/07, Christian Baer <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Greetings fellow computer haters! :-)
>
> As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to
> get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I
> can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits instantly with a segfault.
>
> I didn't get any replies from the STABLE list, but I got a few ideas
> from a German newsgroup. On of these ideas was that Firefox may not run
> at all unter FreeBSD SPARC64. The reason given was that outside of the
> common plattforms (i386, AMD64 and maybe alpha) much of the ports world
> is untestet.
>
> To be honest, I find that a little hard to believe for Firefox. If we
> were talking about some application that is rarely used at all, sure.
> But Firefox should be quite common - one would think anyway.
>
> Well, just to rule out this possibility, I tought I'd just ask around if
> anyone got Firefox to run on FreeBSD 6.1 SPARC64.
>
> Hit me with answers! :-)

Firefox only runs on >= 601101 sparc64.




>
> Regards
> Chris
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