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steve_s · #21 Post by **steve_s** » Wed 11 Nov 2009, 17:10

wiccanhart1 wrote:How can I get the Iron browser installed in lieu of chrome? Is there a pet for that?

Yep; check out one of my earlier posts in this thread and it has a link to where someone did a thread on the iron browser, including pet.

mikeb · #22 Post by **mikeb** » Wed 11 Nov 2009, 21:55

A piece of the dbus-glib mystery
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=39641

mike

GrumpyWolfe · #23 Post by **GrumpyWolfe** » Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:54

Hi to all and Steve-S

Steve-S I am running my own puplet MyWolfe 006 and have firefox 3.5.5 installed. I used the dbus and dbus-glib from a build of berryK pet packages for puppy3. I just did a test using berryK's openoffice sfs and had no problems so it maybe the version of dbus that you are using interfering with the install you have of openoffice.

dnewman4952 · #24 Post by **dnewman4952** » Fri 20 Nov 2009, 22:54

Can anyone make a pet from the latest build (4.0.249.4)? They have enabled bookmark syncing now.

doctor82 · #25 Post by **doctor82** » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 08:33

I guess mywolfe has already packaged the latest version of Google chrome into a pet at google code. Haven't tried it yet. I hope it works.

GrumpyWolfe · #26 Post by **GrumpyWolfe** » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 09:12

doctor82

If you will try out the Google-chrome official beta you will find that code in there http://code.google.com/p/mywolfe/downlo ... me-004.pet
Let me know if it works for you

doctor82 · #27 Post by **doctor82** » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 12:54

GrumpyWolfe

I'm using Puppy Linux v 4.20 (macpup opera) and installed the google chrome pet. But the chrome window flashes for a fraction of second and crashes. The following is the message from the terminal. I'm no geek, so I have no clue.

# google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: pango_layout_set_height
#

I tried to undeb the google-chrome.deb after downloading the official linux version of the browser and got the following error messages. I was just trying to create a .pet out of it.

Usage: LZMA <e|d> inputFile outputFile [<switches>...]
e: encode file
d: decode file
b: Benchmark
<Switches>
-a{N}: set compression mode - [0, 1], default: 1 (max)
-d{N}: set dictionary - [12, 30], default: 23 (8MB)
-fb{N}: set number of fast bytes - [5, 273], default: 128
-mc{N}: set number of cycles for match finder
-lc{N}: set number of literal context bits - [0, 8], default: 3
-lp{N}: set number of literal pos bits - [0, 4], default: 0
-pb{N}: set number of pos bits - [0, 4], default: 2
-mf{MF_ID}: set Match Finder: [bt2, bt3, bt4, hc4], default: bt4
-mt{N}: set number of CPU threads
-eos: write End Of Stream marker
-si: read data from stdin
-so: write data to stdout

Error
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2
#

mikeb · #28 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 15:51

/usr/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: pango_layout_set_height

newer gtk2 libs needed...have fun

mike

GrumpyWolfe · #29 Post by **GrumpyWolfe** » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 22:13

I will have to agree with mikeb I have tried different ways to get it to behave in any puppy under 4.3.1 and keep getting that

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/usr/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: pango_layout_set_height

I can only suggestt that you upgrade or wait tell something besides just google-chrome needs new lib's

mikeb · #30 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 22:37

Theres 2 ways to build an application...use an older version of linux so that it will usually work on anything, or use the latest cutting edge version so it only works on the latest releases....the latter usually means there's a quad core jobbie running it.
So for us ordinary mortals we are quite often put out of the picture

mike

DaveS · #31 Post by **DaveS** » Mon 14 Dec 2009, 06:34

Ran this Chrome on NOP 431 for a while. Faultless install, blazingly fast, no crashes, but it stalls on some sites, most notably when Seamonkey et al would load a helper application. Flash was picked up correctly and gave no problems, (unlike Opera 10*).
For simple browsing, the out and out speed of Chrome is addictive, but it is not yet feature rich enough to replace Seamonkey/Firefox/Opera. I hope as the features come, the speed is not impacted. Having to use an external mail app is a down side.

spb37 · #32 Post by **spb37** » Mon 14 Dec 2009, 17:57

From googling many people find some of the text font in google chrome too small. I could not find a solution like the no squint extension for firefox (or just setting a minimum font size that cannot be overidden by web pages). There is a windows exe that add zooming pages to chrome.

I am in denial about needing reading glasses. Do I need to report google to the AARP.

GrumpyWolfe · #33 Post by **GrumpyWolfe** » Tue 15 Dec 2009, 01:40

Hi spb37

Well they are a little small but if you go to the wrench open options then click on the under the hood tab, then scroll down too Web Content you can then open up a menu and change the fonts to what you like me I use the dajaVn fonts.

Hope this helps

techtype · #34 Post by **techtype** » Thu 17 Dec 2009, 17:08

spb37 wrote:From googling many people find some of the text font in google chrome too small. I could not find a solution like the no squint extension for firefox (or just setting a minimum font size that cannot be overidden by web pages). There is a windows exe that add zooming pages to chrome.

I am in denial about needing reading glasses. Do I need to report google to the AARP.

See my post for fixing font size:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 17#p215549

spb37 · #35 Post by **spb37** » Fri 18 Dec 2009, 18:46

Thanks for the help everyone. Techtype you nailed it. I guess I can call off the AARP paratroopers (a great
simpson's episode).

mikeb · #36 Post by **mikeb** » Fri 18 Dec 2009, 19:41

Thanks for the help everyone. Techtype you nailed it. I guess I can call off the AARP paratroopers (a great
simpson's episode).

just a research question....are serif fonts shown correctly...ie as serif true type antialiased. Are any sans fonts bitmap ie blocky?

regards

mike

cimh · #37 Post by **cimh** » Fri 18 Dec 2009, 23:09

thanks for packaging chrome- its a great browser - anybody had any luck getting gears to work - we could then access google docs offline?

cimh
eee-901 puppeee4.31

didik · #38 Post by **didik** » Sat 19 Dec 2009, 14:52

cimh wrote:thanks for packaging chrome- its a great browser - anybody had any luck getting gears to work - we could then access google docs offline?

cimh
eee-901 puppeee4.31

cxchromium always crash on my puppy when loading unreached/blocked site

cimh · #39 Post by **cimh** » Sun 27 Dec 2009, 10:35

I have done some benchmarking of this Chrome 4 package against seamonkey, puppy browser, ff2 ff3.56, and opera 10 on puppeee using sunspider that tests java and future mark peace keeper that seems to run a more complete battery.

Chrome comes out way in front,
followed by ff3.5 quite a way behind then opera

the others perform badly.

You can see the results at:
http://pupweb.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1261244678

Of course I'm not sure how these tests relate to the real world.

cimh
puppeee 4.31beta full install

mikeb · #40 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 27 Dec 2009, 16:15

Anyone care to pop up a screen shot of at least the top of this page in chrome on puppy..
http://www.vorck.com/windows/index.html
I'm researching browser font rendering

cheers

mike

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