Arctic Fox, a new web browser is available for Linux PPC

[csae2608]

Hello , thank you very much , this is highly appreciated!

Hope to test this soon on a MacMini G4 with Debian Squeeze if i still get it up and running.

Question: would it be possible to release also a i386 version of this for an older Pentium M Mobile or Pentium 4 Computer?
ONly inhibitor for running Debian Squeeze was in fact the outdated browser.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Arctic Fox 27.9.17 has been released.

Download: github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox

Change Log: github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/releases/tag/v27.9.17

I released Arctic Fox 27.9.17 for old Linux PowerPC distributions like Ubuntu 10.04 or higher today.

Download: arcticfox-27.9.17-ubuntu10.04-powerpc.tar.bz2

For Ubuntu 10.04: You need to install the GCC 4.8 and the libatomic1 via the repository 'ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test'.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8

For Ubuntu 12.04: You need the libatomic1 package. Download: libatomic-ubuntu12.04-powerpc.tar.bz2

Please copy the file 'libatomic.so.1' to '/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/' with the following command:

sudo cp libatomic.so.1 /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/

Screenshot of Arctic Fox 27.9.17 on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS PowerPC:



Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released Arctic Fox 27.9.18a1 for old Linux PowerPC distributions like Ubuntu 10.04 or higher today.

Download: arcticfox-27.9.18a1-ubuntu10.04-powerpc.tar.bz2

For Ubuntu 10.04: You need to install the GCC 4.8 and the libatomic1 via the repository 'ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test'.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8

For Ubuntu 12.04: You need the libatomic1 package. Download: libatomic-ubuntu12.04-powerpc.tar.bz2

Please copy the file 'libatomic.so.1' to '/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/' with the following command:

sudo cp libatomic.so.1 /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/

Screenshot of Arctic Fox 27.9.18a1 on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS PowerPC:



Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Arctic Fox 27.9.18 has been released for Ubuntu PowerPC.

Download: arcticfox-27.9.18.linux-powerpc.tar.bz2 (For Ubuntu 16.04 PowerPC or higher)

Change log: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fo...es/tag/27.9.18

Additionally there is Arctic Fox 27.9.18 for old Linux PowerPC distributions like Ubuntu 10.04 or higher.

Download: arcticfox-27.9.18-ubuntu10.04-powerpc.tar.bz2

For Ubuntu 10.04: You need to install the GCC 4.8 and the libatomic1 via the repository 'ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test'.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8

For Ubuntu 12.04: You need the libatomic1 package. Download: libatomic-ubuntu12.04-powerpc.tar.bz2

Please copy the file 'libatomic.so.1' to '/usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/' with the following command:

sudo cp libatomic.so.1 /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/

Screenshots of Arctic Fox 27.9.18 for old Linux distributions:







Cheers,
Christian

[Dev'olution]

Will this work within a PowerPC VM?

[xeno74]

Will this work within a PowerPC VM?

It works on QEMU (PPC64 and PPC with or without KVM/KVM PR).

[este.el.paz]

@xeno74:

I was playing around a bit with the last of my running PPC units today, my iBook G4 with 656MB of RAM . . . running Lu 16.04 . . . it has a hard time with the resource demanding "web" provided by Ten4Fox . . . . From what I'm seeing in this post it looks like you are mostly using your Arctic Fox browser for 10.04 - 12.04??? Any reason to try it out in 16.04 PPC? And that would be more or less the same commands to add into repos first?? Or, something completely different? I was going to try to play with it in the iBook but the fan motor was blowing so much with a browser open that the computer becomes "overwhelmed" and "dysfunctional" . . . even Qupzilla isn't too much better . . . .

eep

[xeno74]

@este.el.paz

I use Arctic Fox on ubuntu MATE 16.04 too. It's the best web browser currently.

[xeno74]

YouTube videos in HD with ViewTube and Arctic Fox

Installation instructions for ubuntu MATE 16.04.6 PowerPC

1. Install VLC and the VLC browser plugin with the following command:
   

   sudo apt-get install browser-plugin-vlc

2. Start Arctic Fox and install the add-on Greasemonkey version 3.31.4
3. Restart Arctic Fox
4. After that, add the ViewTube script to Greasemonkey
5. Then you have to activate the VLC plugin. You can activate it via Menu Tools - Add-ons - Plugins.

Screenshots of ViewTube on ubuntu MATE 16.04 PowerPC:

[este.el.paz]

@xeno74:

Thanks very kindly for the thorough instructions . . . appreciate it, I'll give it a try and let you know . . . .