Webbrowser

[Bernd Walter]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 11:04:06AM +0100, Mikaël Urankar wrote:
> 2018-03-06 11:01 GMT+01:00 Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de>:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 06:32:40PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 06:18:09PM +0100, Mikaël Urankar wrote:
> > > > Le 5 mars 2018 18:00, "Bernd Walter" <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de> a
> > écrit :
> > > >
> > > > It seems that there is not useable webbrowser for arm.
> > > > I've tested 11.1 on a Pi2 and a recent current snapshot on a Pi3.
> > > > The only brwosers I got running is billo and midori.
> > > > The first one is practically unuseable these days and midori always
> > > > crashes when the javascript engine starts.
> > > > With javascript disabled midori runs fine, but I need JS.
> > > > Did anyone already spend some time debugging this issue?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The jit in webkit is broken on armv6/7, you need to recompile it with
> > this
> > > > configure flag: --disable-jit
> > > > I created a PR for firefox-esr:
> > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225279
> > >
> > > Ok - this is a patch to get the JIT running in firefox?
> > > A quick look showed that you do ${ARCH} == armv6 || ${ARCH} == armv7
> > > In my case I also see the problem on the pi3, which is arm64.
> > > You may want to expand your patch, if you can test it.
> > >
> > > I will recompile webkit without jit.
> > > Will take some hours to complete, so far I've used packages.
> >
> > Cool - that helped.
> > Midori is now running with JS enabled.
> 
> 
> Would you mind creating a PR for this issue?

Will do - just give me a few days.

> FYI firefox-esr builds fine on aarch64,
> http://thunderx1.nyi.freebsd.org/data/head-arm64-default/p461032_s328914/logs/firefox-esr-52.6.0_3,1.log

Didn't know.
My first selection was based on available packages.
But the aarch64 current packages are quite fresh, so maybe that's the reason.
In my case I need a kiosk mode, which the Firefox only can do with a plugin,
so it wasn't my first choice anyway.

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B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.