Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:59:39 +0100 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: web browsers for Alpha (was: Re: anybody running port www/amaya) Message-ID: <200808011559.PAA01605@sopwith.solgatos.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:10:15 BST." <20080801091015.GA92710@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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> Being unable to build firefox3 on alpha Have they done anything to make firefox LP64 clean? It's been awhile, but I once tried to get firefox to build on NetBSD/Alpha and got over 30,000 complaints from the compiler. Looking at the code, it was clear that the author thought all the world was ILP32. I submitted a patch fixing over 1100 problems but the firefox crew was very hostile, and I doubt they ever did anything with the patch. > I turned in desperation > to other web browsers from ports. Oddly Mozilla runs on both NetBSD/Alpha and FreeBSD/AMD64. I thought Firefox was just Mozilla with some non-web-browser stuff removed, but perhaps there are other differences. You might try Links and/or Dillo. Smaller, faster, higher quality code. They work on LP64 machines. Unfortunately they may not have all the features you need. Links (with -g for graphics mode) allows setting the font to any size you want, you can make it very small to get a poorly designed web page to fit on your screen, or crank it up if your eyes are tired. It also allows changing the size of images, which even mozilla-the-bloatfest can't do. Dillo actually cares about security.
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