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Old 2nd July 2011
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OpenBSD supports several browsers, however for various reasons some may only run on a specific architecture.. usually it's a portability issue, not always, often programmers make assumptions about the platform their software runs on and it's hard to fix later.

There are ports for Firefox 3.5/3.6 and 4.0(..5.0 in -current now), the older 3.5/3.6 don't explicitly disable building on 32-bit SPARC however it may not compile and run for various reasons.. portability and/or other constraints.

Google's open source Chrome counterpart (..chromium) is now available and maintained, it uses the WebKit layout engine and related libraries.. again it may or may not work on SPARC but it is available for other OpenBSD platforms.

Other browsers in the ports tree exist utilizing WebKit, Geocko or even something entirely new.. netsurf and dillo would be examples of independent browser implementations.

The problem isn't with OpenBSD lacking browsers, there are plenty, but perhaps not on the SPARC.
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