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

[Andreas Müller]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> 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.
Hmm - I was wondering why nobody took care.

All my plattforms fail:
* i.MX6 base
* gumstix
* raspberry Pi2

I'll put this browser issue on my TODO currently I have no further
time to take care.

Andreas