Unofficial Palemoon for non-NEON systems

⚠️ Disclaimer: The binaries produced using these build scripts are not an official Palemoon product! You will NOT have any form of user support. Binaries will not be redistributed in any type or form, I only provide the build scripts.

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This is a completely unofficial (old!) Palemoon test build for non-NEON systems for PostmarketOS / Alpine Linux, in order to have a middle-ground browser between Netsurf (no JS, basic HTML and CSS features) and Firefox (resource hog on 1GB RAM system, and Alpine's firefox builds do not work either on non-NEON systems).

It is focused on the Tegra 2 systems, like the Asus Transformer TF101, but should work on any available architecture (x86, armhf and riscv64 not tested).

Credits

Credits to https://github.com/tanertas/aports/tree/palemoon/testing/palemoon, the original source where I picked most of the APKBUILD files.

Build

For PostmarketOS 23.06, I just select the v23.06 branch with pmbootstrap and leave the rest as default.

Assuming your pmbootstrap directory is clean, has $HOME/.local/var/pmbootstrap as the specified location, you are in the correct version branch and your host is an x86_64 machine, I do:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/antonialoytorrens/palemoon-noneon.git /tmp/palemoon-noneon

cp -r /tmp/palemoon-noneon/* $HOME/.local/var/pmbootstrap/cache_git/pmaports/main
rm -r $HOME/.local/var/pmbootstrap/cache_git/pmaports/main/assets
rm -r $HOME/.local/var/pmbootstrap/cache_git/pmaports/main/README.md

# For armv7:
pmbootstrap --no-cross build --force palemoon --arch=armv7

# For x86_64:
pmbootstrap build --force palemoon

Status

• Builds successfully and works on Alpine Linux 3.18 / PostmarketOS 23.06.

Screenshots

PostmarketOS 23.06 / Alpine 3.18

TODO

Try to build a more recent Palemoon version.