Firefox Quantum portable with apulse All-in
- Mike Walsh
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- Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Hiya, Fred.
Thanks for this portable Quantum. I'm not normally a Firefox man as you doubtless know by now, but I have to admit to recovering some of the respect for Firefox that I lost many years ago. This Quantum is almost identical to Chrome in behaviour, etc; not sure whether that's a good thing, or bad...
Currently running at 59.02 in Slacko 5.7.0. Extracted in Downloads, then the resulting 'firefox32' directory placed in /opt (my favourite 'catch-all' for everything, really). I already had gtk-3.0 installed from a previous exploit, so didn't need that.
Built a .desktop entry for Quantum in /usr/share/applications (pointing to /opt/firefox32/ff), stuck an appropriate icon in /usr/share/pixmaps, ran 'fixmenus', restarted 'X'.....and she fired straight up, good as gold.
Thanks again. Cheers!
Mike.
Thanks for this portable Quantum. I'm not normally a Firefox man as you doubtless know by now, but I have to admit to recovering some of the respect for Firefox that I lost many years ago. This Quantum is almost identical to Chrome in behaviour, etc; not sure whether that's a good thing, or bad...
Currently running at 59.02 in Slacko 5.7.0. Extracted in Downloads, then the resulting 'firefox32' directory placed in /opt (my favourite 'catch-all' for everything, really). I already had gtk-3.0 installed from a previous exploit, so didn't need that.
Built a .desktop entry for Quantum in /usr/share/applications (pointing to /opt/firefox32/ff), stuck an appropriate icon in /usr/share/pixmaps, ran 'fixmenus', restarted 'X'.....and she fired straight up, good as gold.
Thanks again. Cheers!
Mike.
- Mike Walsh
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- Joined: Sat 28 Jun 2014, 12:42
- Location: King's Lynn, UK.
@ Fred:-
Actually, now I think about it, I thought I may as well also make available the GTK3 'upgrade' I used for 570. It was in fact a .pet package put together (so I believe) originally for Precise 571. I forget the thread where I acquired it, but I do remember credit should go to perdido for giving me the link to it.
It's not as comprehensive, new, or large as your X-Slacko GTK3 SFS; probably because the 'buntu-based Pups tend to have quite a bit of this stuff included as standard. As I'm sure you're well aware, with Slackware being so much more conservative with what they include in the OS, you often need to track down everything including the 'Out house sink' in order to get many things working.
However, this Precise package was good enough to get things working for me in 570 back when FireFox first moved to GTK3. Which being the case, it can't hurt to make this also available for download; 'choice in all things' being my motto!
For anybody who'd like to make use of it, you can find it here:-
http://www.mediafire.com/file/z9p65cgf9 ... recise.pet
Mike.
Actually, now I think about it, I thought I may as well also make available the GTK3 'upgrade' I used for 570. It was in fact a .pet package put together (so I believe) originally for Precise 571. I forget the thread where I acquired it, but I do remember credit should go to perdido for giving me the link to it.
It's not as comprehensive, new, or large as your X-Slacko GTK3 SFS; probably because the 'buntu-based Pups tend to have quite a bit of this stuff included as standard. As I'm sure you're well aware, with Slackware being so much more conservative with what they include in the OS, you often need to track down everything including the 'Out house sink' in order to get many things working.
However, this Precise package was good enough to get things working for me in 570 back when FireFox first moved to GTK3. Which being the case, it can't hurt to make this also available for download; 'choice in all things' being my motto!
For anybody who'd like to make use of it, you can find it here:-
http://www.mediafire.com/file/z9p65cgf9 ... recise.pet
Mike.
- Mike Walsh
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- Joined: Sat 28 Jun 2014, 12:42
- Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Hi again, Fred.
Just FYI, I've turned this into a .pet, complete with the created /profile directory, a .desktop entry and icon (made for a whopping big package, admittedly), and installed it into Precise 571. Fired straight up, with everything set-up ready. Ace!
Thanks again.
(EDIT:-) ....and ditto Slacko 560. Nice one.
(EDIT_2:-) ....and ETP's 'Chromebook Pup' (based on 571). Excellent!
Mike.
Just FYI, I've turned this into a .pet, complete with the created /profile directory, a .desktop entry and icon (made for a whopping big package, admittedly), and installed it into Precise 571. Fired straight up, with everything set-up ready. Ace!
Thanks again.
(EDIT:-) ....and ditto Slacko 560. Nice one.
(EDIT_2:-) ....and ETP's 'Chromebook Pup' (based on 571). Excellent!
Mike.
crashing tabs
fred, I have the latest Firefox installed though my tabs keep crashing on some sites, Do u have some idea what could the reason be?
Re: crashing tabs
No idea yet. I use this Firefox all the time and didn't experience something like that.kuman11 wrote:fred, I have the latest Firefox installed though my tabs keep crashing on some sites, Do u have some idea what could the reason be?
Can you give one or more url address of the sites when this happens ? So I can test that?
Fred
Re: crashing tabs
How much RAM do you have? How about swap or zram?kuman11 wrote:fred, I have the latest Firefox installed though my tabs keep crashing on some sites, Do u have some idea what could the reason be?
Some websites just suck down RAM and will cause firefox (or Chrome) to freeze. Is that what is happening?
Re: crashing tabs
It's 1.5 G, don't have swap now.dancytron wrote:How much RAM do you have? How about swap or zram?kuman11 wrote:fred, I have the latest Firefox installed though my tabs keep crashing on some sites, Do u have some idea what could the reason be?
Some websites just suck down RAM and will cause firefox (or Chrome) to freeze. Is that what is happening?
Yep, it slows down at first then I get the message, 'tab crashed'. More often it can't recover it. Mostly SM sites.
Re: crashing tabs
SM, you mean like facebook and twitter?kuman11 wrote:It's 1.5 G, don't have swap now.dancytron wrote:How much RAM do you have? How about swap or zram?kuman11 wrote:fred, I have the latest Firefox installed though my tabs keep crashing on some sites, Do u have some idea what could the reason be?
Some websites just suck down RAM and will cause firefox (or Chrome) to freeze. Is that what is happening?
Yep, it slows down at first then I get the message, 'tab crashed'. More often it can't recover it. Mostly SM sites.
I bet you are just running out of RAM. So you run an adblocker. If not, ublock origin will block at least some of the crap.
You are in Debian Dog?? Create a swap partition for sure. Might try some zram too.
Even with 3 Gig of RAM, swap and zram, sometimes a page will just start sucking down the RAM and crash. Bad webpages are just the way it is sometimes.
kuman11 wrote:'No idea yet. I use this Firefox all the time and didn't experience something like that.'
fred, mainly Social media sites, Twitter, FB.
I guess Dancytron suggested the cause, I observe the same symptoms.
Yes, probably the cause is as dancytron says, these modern browsers use a lot of RAM, 1.5 G is not much, so you need a swap partiition or a swap file. (zram may help also, don't know much about it)It's 1.5 G, don't have swap now.
Then when loading much "heavy" tabs, it will probably run slow, but when using enough swap, crashing can be avoided, I guess.
Fred
Yes, probably the cause is as dancytron says, these modern browsers use a lot of RAM, 1.5 G is not much, so you need a swap partiition or a swap file. (zram may help also, don't know much about it)It's 1.5 G, don't have swap now.
Then when loading much "heavy" tabs, it will probably run slow, but when using enough swap, crashing can be avoided, I guess.
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I created a pupswap file on the usb stick. Can I copy it in /root to use it while running in RAM?
I'm not so clear about it ...
Updated to version 60.0.1, download links at first post.
I didn't change the security.sandbox settings, because this still seems to work fine for me:
Content of the file "ff4lxpup.cfg" (32-bit, for 64-bit the value 54 must be 16)
But any suggestions are welcome !
EDIT: Just noticed This Post, did some testing and it appears there's no special setting required anymore in "about:config" for sound to work.
So re-uploaded without any preconfiguration, new download links at first post.
Thanks OscarTalks !
Fred
I didn't change the security.sandbox settings, because this still seems to work fine for me:
Content of the file "ff4lxpup.cfg" (32-bit, for 64-bit the value 54 must be 16)
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defaultPref("security.sandbox.content.level", 2); // set new default value
defaultPref("security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");
defaultPref("security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist", "54");
defaultPref("security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");
EDIT: Just noticed This Post, did some testing and it appears there's no special setting required anymore in "about:config" for sound to work.
So re-uploaded without any preconfiguration, new download links at first post.
Thanks OscarTalks !
Fred