UXP is ported to PowerPC Linux

@z970mp Updated SpiderWeb to 2.0.0 w/jemalloc disabled as well. Give it a spin.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KFEOXzV9CCPJDfSb29uXCxh0t3UF-FPQ/view?usp=sharing

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@juancarlosonetti It's worth a shot trying Arctic Fox. Riccardo made the changes needed to get it to build on freebsd, netbsd and openbsd for i386/x86_64, so there's a good chance it'd build for PPC now. However it wont build with gcc7/8. You'll need 4 or 5 for best results. You'll also need 1gb ram minimum with a 1gb swap file or you'll run out of memory during linking. Swap isn't a good solution, but it does work in a pinch. 2gb of ram or more is best, but i did build AF on my mac mini g4 with 1gb ram w/1gb swap for the first few builds until i got my G5 running again.

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I've been able to modify a few old seamonkey themes for spiderweb. I now have my favorite PinBall theme installed.
Grab them from the add-ons link on spiderwebs download page.

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They play for me, but the red and blue colors are switched. I recommend the modified greasemonkey for SW with ViewTube script, and browser-plugin-vlc. Works like a charm. It may look like the GM script installer freezes. Just exit the browser and restart. The script will be installed. Navigate to youtube, select VLC from the player drop down menu and enjoy.

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GreaseMonkey and a few other add-ons are linked on SW's download page. ViewTube from here: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/2984-viewtube and browser-plugin-vlc should be in debians repository (it's in lubuntu's).

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With those installed you'll see this when you select a video. These are my settings. You can play around with them, just make sure the player is VLC.



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@XaPHER yeah there are a few lingering endianess issues I haven't had a whole lot of time to look in to yet. I'm just happy I was able to get UXP to build on ppc32.

Feel free to PR any fixes you might come across or figure out.

 

https://github.com/wicknix/UXP4PPC32
My ported repo for anyone who wants to help maintain it.

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I uploaded it after I got it building. Basically it wasn't too hard, just time consuming. I grepped my way through the tree and searched out the words "sse2" and "-m64". I removed all instances of sse2 and changed all instances of -m64 to -m32. The last issue was creating a big endian icu.dat file to replace the default little endian icu.dat. there's more info on that in a readme in my ported repo.

Aside from that, I wanted to stay at 28.4.1 or earlier because they have slowly been removing legacy code from uxp.

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SpiderWeb 2.1.0 is now available. All UXP changes from 28.4.1 to current 28.6.1 are applied to this build.

@swamprock I haven't been able to find a 100% working GM yet. The one i modified installs, and works, but the script installer hangs as you've found out. So you can either copy the viewtube script to "gm_scripts" in SW's profile or copy the whole "gm_scripts" folder from AF (assuming you use the same scripts with AF). Copying from AF is what i did and the script is working with youtube in SW for me. Hope that helps.

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Neat. They built it from my git repo. PM doesn't use that type of version string. That version display was changed by me as i was testing things out and i used a build date format instead, but i had to keep the 28. for add-on compatibility. See: https://github.com/wicknix/UXP4PPC32/blob/master/application/palemoon/config/version.txt . So this is 28.4.1 which my 32bit port was based off of. Hopefully it's stable as i replaced all the -m64 flags with -m32 in a ton of makefiles. At any rate, nice to see.

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A little off topic, but...
This is for you guys since i don't care for the "Intel" section of this forum. Most of us here have some older Intel Macs also, so i made a few changes and built SpiderWeb for 10.7+ as well. It's built with security and speed in mind, just like the PPC version. More info and download link found here: https://randommacstuff.blogspot.com/

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