On Wed, 8 May 2019 23:57:05 +0000 (UTC), not@telling.you.invalid (Computer
Nerd Kev) declaimed the following:


>Or you might be able to find a static binary of Firefox for ARM V.6
>(I think all the Pis are ARM V.6, best check it yourself). This

 RPI3B/B+ are ARMv8-A (64&32 bit), as is the v1.2 RPI2B. RPI2B original
is ARMv7 (32 bit). RPI3A+ is ARMv8 (64 bit).

 I believe the desired architecture for builds should be armhf though
armel may run, if slower. armhf assumes 32-bit hardware floating point
unit, which the RPI does have (and since Raspbian, at least, is a common
build for all, it is running in 32-bit mode even on the quad-core 64-bit
RPI3-series). armel has to emulate floating point operations.

>why couldn't the package maintainer? [EDIT: Also, it probably won't
>work at all on the Pi because there isn't enough RAM (I needed over
>1GB to compile the Chrome engine, Firefox is probably similar) - you

 Mount a USB hard-drive and configure the system to use it for swap
space -- it will be slow, but might allow native building -- especially on
a 3B(+).


FYI:

md_admin@microdiversity:~$ uname -a
Linux microdiversity 4.14.98-v7+ #1200 SMP Tue Feb 12 20:27:48 GMT 2019
armv7l GNU/Linux

 That's a NOOBS/Raspbian (Debian Stretch) install

md_admin@microdiversity:~$ apt-cache search firefox

firefox-esr - Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR)


 So

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-esr

should suffice.


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