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 Message 7306 
 Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal 
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 27 Sep 21 21:10:30 
 
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Hello Maurice!

27 Sep 2021 18:57, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> same here, what does 2.34 do that cant wait ?

 MK> Totally break the new firefox-91 builds.

  seamonkey is firefox + thunderbird :)
 
 MK> seamonkey-2.53.9 works 
 
 its just silly it ads www to any url, so the hostname cant be found
 
 2.53.8 does not do this shit
 
 i still love mozilla not force https on all webpages, this is a job for
webservers not for www clients, doh 
 
 MK> though so it isn't a total loss unless of course you *NEED* firefox, 
 
 you need links with fb0 support :=)
 
 MK> especially the esr source.  Also firefox-91 claims that you won't be 
 MK> able to compile it on older systems.
 
 i currently compile chromioum, it takes time, ebuild ask for 4GB ram, and 9GB
harddisk space as minimum to compile it

 i read in the source of it it drop compile with gcc, and uses clang to solve
it, maybe on your os  badly brokken ?

 MK> So far my experience seems to 
 MK> indicate the exact opposite.
 
 this happens 
 
 MK> It is early though.  Anyhow some people 
 MK> need firefox to properly stream from amazon and the such since 
 MK> seamonkey cannot - and more than likely every other gui browser except 
 MK> the google one (chrome or chromium or ?????).

would this be impossible in gopher:// ? :)

 BP>> i keep amd64 in gentoo for stable ebuild atleast for @system ebuilds

 MK> +1

 MK> I am in the process of upgrading three machines but am sticking with 
 MK> glibc-2.33 for more or less the same reasons as you.
 
 good
 
 MK>  Two of them 
 MK> don't have gui's and seldom have a monitor and/or keyboard attached.  
 
 ssh only ?
 
 MK> The one I am replying to your msg, where Little Mikey's Brain resides, 
 MK> is a prime case.

+1

 MK>   Compiled by GNU CC version 11.2.0.
 MK>   libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC ABSOLUTE
 MK>   For bug reporting instructions, please see:
 MK>   .

11.2.0 is still masked in gentoo, if thats matter for glibc

 MK> Works like a charm and will be easy to upgrade to glibc-2.34 if that 
 MK> day ever comes.  Heck I might skip over it to glibc-2.35 ... in 
 MK> Febuary-ish that is.

if odd or even is something from 1970 ? ;)

 MK> Life is good,
 MK> Maurice

 MK> ... Wel mon sceal wine healdan on wega gehwylcum.
 MK>     One does well to keep a friend on every road.
 MK> -+- GNU bash, version 5.1.8(1)-release (x86_64-motorshed-linux-gnu)
 MK>  + Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001)

sorry if my msg here mess up, my asus pn50 is under load :=)


 Regards Benny

... too late to die young :)

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