Firefox on Powermac/Linux

[mrkapqa]

Hello ,

i would like to ask how the developemnt of Firefox on PowerPC/Lnux is going;
am stuck ad Debian Wheezy so dont know what the latest official version for Powerpc Users is.

thanks to a generous user here at macrumors, was able to install arcticfox 27.10 on wheezy,
although i dont like how Firefox has become "inflated" and bit slow sometimes in recent developement,
it is still my favorite browser, hence the question.

Sadly, Iceape is gone, and Seamonkey never took much off.
Thanks veryone for the answers.

 

[wicknix]

Depends on what your system is. 32-bit is pretty much stuck at FF52-60 code base (InterWeb/SpiderWeb). 64-bit has FF102 at the moment but it's quite unusable on a G5. It browses fine, but it has major endianess color issues making it hard to use. Otherwise FF68 and FF78 are still quite usable yet.

Cheers

 

[mrkapqa]

nice to see the "Navigator" logo up there, didn§t notice it yet for newer Firefox on other platforms.
Debian Wheezy is "quite responsive"; remember the OS taking quite a hit with upgrading to Debian Jessie , performancewise, also stability terms.
Wonder how well those newer OS fare, on a Powermac G5 DC.

 

[wicknix]

I'm running Void on a DC 2.3ghz in the above photo. Runs extremely well. Very lightweight and no systemd. I also run it on a couple of powerbook G4's. Sadly Void might be dropping support for our machines come spring of 2023 if they can't find a maintainer. I just downloaded all the popular -devel files so i can compile select apps when needed if that happens. This way i can eek out a few more years before i jump to another OS. Similar to what some of us do with macports on tiger and leopard.

Edit: the navigator icon is from the win95/win2k theme im using.

Cheers