From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 16:00:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3F0106567B for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:00:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from parsely.rain.com (parsely.rain.com [199.26.172.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789E48FC15 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:00:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from sopwith.solgatos.com (uucp@localhost) by parsely.rain.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with UUCP id m71G0la00483 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from localhost by sopwith.solgatos.com (8.8.8/6.24) id PAA01605; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:59:39 GMT Message-Id: <200808011559.PAA01605@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:10:15 BST." <20080801091015.GA92710@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:59:39 +0100 From: Dieter Subject: web browsers for Alpha (was: Re: anybody running port www/amaya) X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:00:53 -0000 > 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.