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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-06-16 07:36, Andreas Müller wrote:
> 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.

BTW, I just tested both chromium and firefox on the i.MX6Q and RPi2
and they worked just fine.  Built from meta-browser:0cc0419a

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