Tman has a .sfs of FF9 (which should allow you to mount it, try it, and umount it if it doesn't work):willem1940NLD wrote:All is well that ends well .... I forgot all the time to look in quickpet column "Internet" where old Firefox4 still is listed.
525 reasonably stable again now and I intend to stick to FF4 till I am sure something better is ready.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72177
Playdayz has rebuilt/repaired FF9 (Firefox-9.0.1-2-Lucid.pet):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 178#594178
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ges-lucid/
This is suppose to fix the problem that Firefox would not use its own libraries (and eliminated the symlinking we had been doing, which can cause other problems).
Obviously, I would back up your lupusave before trying this (I try to always have a fresh backup before installing new software). I always have 3 or 4 lupusaves laying around all the time (often in addition to my backups).
I put some version of FF9 on my 5.25 install, and it seemed to work.
I need to rebuild this 5.28 install (and upgrade to 5.28.004) since I mucked with symlinks and such to fix the system -- I'm going to try a fresh install, and then try Playdayz FF9...
BTW, a 995MHz with 1GB RAM shouldn't be too bad. I have a 900MHz Netbook that runs 5.20 without problem (going to try 5.28 eventually).
One thing I've seen is that Firefox will eat a lot of RAM, so you might want a largish swap partition or file (on my 2 1GB RAM system, I run 1.17 GB swap, just larger than my RAM -- I'm running no swap on the 1GB netbook, since it's all flash memory).