[OE-core] Webkit-gtk will be updated to latest upstream; midori browser to be replaced with Epiphany

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-06-16 07:27, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Alexander Kanavin
> <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On 06/16/2015 09:50 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>
>>> How about doing same as others do e.g fedora [1-2]: Keep two version
>>> of webkit-gtk based on same recent code:
>>>
>>> * gtk2/webkit1
>>> * gtk3/webkit2
>>
>>
>> Before showing how, you need to explain why. Fedora has to package webkit1
>> because they have a lot of apps in the Gnome stack that still haven't been
>> ported to webkit2. Oe-core on the other hand has only one such app: midori.
> Yes and midori is the only working browser in Yocto (I know): firefox
> crashes since very long time for illegal ARM instruction and chromium
> does not start at all.

What platform are you using?  Are you building these from meta-browser?

I routinely use both firefox and chromium on ARM (i.MX6) with no problems.

>
> I suggest we stop discussing my comment: You continue updating
> webkitgtk and I'll try to get a working browser.
>
> Andreas
>

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