[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 196488] [CMake] Detect SSE2 at compile time

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--- Comment #19 from karogyoker2+webkit at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Xan Lopez from comment #16)
> In any case computers that do not have SSE2 capabilities will almost
> certainly not be able to run a current WebKit, I'd say. We are talking about
> almost 20 years old hardware.
> 

Well, I was using WebKit until now, but since the latest release it is broken and I cannot start my browser at all (GNOME Web (epiphany-browser)).

I have an Athlon XP running Lubuntu 18 and I was using WebKit. I had to fix WebKit last year because it required SSE2: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188145

Since my fix I was using WebKit, but now I'm unable to use it again.

My computer is not older than 20 years, the CPU got onto the market in December 2004, so it is not even 15 years old yet.

Every other program I use on Linux runs fine without SSE2 (VLC, LibreOffice, whatever else). Isn't there an other solution than making SSE2 a requirement?

I've chosen WebKit because all the other browsers are requiring SSE2. If I cannot use WebKit then the latest browser with the most features is NetSurf compiled from git sources. It doesn't even capable of handling simpler JavaScripts in practice (there is only theoretic support). In contrast, with WebKit I could even watch YouTube videos.

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