Browsers for 32-bit

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  • January 19, 2023 at 4:12 am #97656
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      The Chromium Dev team stopped supporting 32bits according to the note above but I did spot at least one site that still shares 32 bit Chromium binaries.

      It’s probable that Debian is providing the image too. This can be verified or refuted with an apt-cache search.

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      January 19, 2023 at 10:19 am #97673
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        Hi, solar!

        Now in debian-11 32bit and 64bit chromium building from one fresh source code…
        I think it is good indications that all normal with security of 32bit chromium in debian (as yet)

        January 20, 2023 at 9:14 pm #97838
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          Thank you all for replying,

          I scrolled through some of the debian pages related to chromium and followed Brian’s suggestion to do an apt-cache search.

          Doing a lscpu shows that I have a i686 architecture machine. I then worried whether debian was still developing packages for this specific architecture because I couldn’t find it on their pages. But reading a bit about intel architecture history suggests that all x86 cpus, including i686, are compatible with the original intel 80386 which is abbreviated as i386, correct me if I’m wrong. And i386 is still mentioned as architecture on the debian pages related to chromium

          https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium

          https://packages.debian.org/sid/chromium

          https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=chromium

          The apt-cache chromium–full command gave similar info on my i686 machine:

          chromium version 109.0.5414.74-2~deb11u1
          Maintainer: Debian Chromium Team <chromium@packages.debian.org>
          Architecture: i386

          January 28, 2023 at 9:16 am #98444
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            I thought to give a try to chromium, but:

            xmessage
The hardware on this system lacks support for the sse3 instruction set.
The upstream chromium project no longer supports this configuration.
For more information, please read and possibly provide input to their
bug tracking system at http://crbug.com/1123353

            As reagards the ungoogled-chromium:

            $ chromium
Illegal instruction
            February 7, 2023 at 6:12 am #99068
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              Isn’t there Basilisk Browser for Linux 32-bit? I see here 32 & 64 bit for Windows, but only 64 for Linux.

              February 7, 2023 at 11:28 pm #99135
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                You’re right; unless someone has built Basilisk from source, only Windows versions have 32-bit, forcing you to use WINE or a “compatibility layer”, or compile from source.

                I didn’t see an alternative in my search, but my search was not exhaustive.

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