(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

backi wrote:Did test it ........

but no sound on youtube .........any idea ??

Use it in Tahrpup 6.0.6.........

Had the same problem in xenpup and tahrpup. I just found the solution. I installed Oscartalks apulse pet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 398#947398 and sound works great.

No time to translate previous pages. Just to inform i try light-49.0.linux-i686.rpm with X-Slacko the Slim Puppy by mistfire. Feed back soon
Light is really a browser for us, as Palemoon, Slimboat, and QtWeb
Not an huge one, efficient enough for our passengers to surf the web.
Mistfire's Puppy has Midori 0.5.8 ) included. But i want to test rpm packages. Mistfire should be interested too, to get his passengers happy (Thousands of passengers now ! ). Slim, he needs Slim apps.... and browsers of course.
lib atomic, help from UK here "If you need libatomic, you can find it here, at my MediaFire a/c:- " Mike Walsh, merci.

watchdog said:
--> light-49.0 browser requires an high-xorg.
--> It does not work in old puppies even with glibc tweak.
--> I have a package for racy 5.5, the only "old" puppy
--> where I have had success. If someone is interested I can share it.

I am interested. Would you please provide a download link ?

@watchdog
From the discussion on the page you pointed to,
I concluded that the hardware I am using with Racy 5.5
(Pentium II) will not run light 49.0, because it lacks SSE.

Do you know of any browser more recent than
SeaMonkey 2.12.1, which claims FF15 compatibility,
that will run in this machine ?

I am not interested in viewing videos or like graphics
capabilities; I just want to connect to some sites,
which either require a newer version of TLS
or JavaScript or new encryption algorithms.
For instance, It seems that I cannot access even
github with SeaMonkey . Also recaptcha 2.0
became unusable.

In console:
I understand you have not reported the sse2 flag for the cpu. Have you at least sse flag reported? In this case I suggest the palemoon built by Walter Dnes for sse cpu:

ftp://contrib:get@ftp.palemoon.org/SSE-Linux/

I have built a glibctweaked package from it for puppy4:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 128#969128

In lucid you do not need glibctweak:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 472#970472

If you have not reported at least the sse flag for your cpu then the last chance suggested by Robert123 is firefox27 developed by 8Geee, if I well remember. It is the development of the original firefox of slacko 5.7. You can search the forum for it.

It comes in a tgz package which I saved but I don't remember the original link; firefox27.tgz:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4 ... sp=sharing

You can extract the content of the above package and you will able to find in a hidden .mozilla dir all what you need to use this firefox. There also is a profile with suitable extensions. I have built a pet package from it, yet not tested; firefox27.pet:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4 ... sp=sharing

If you use the above package in puppy4 then you need a glibc upgrade to 2.7 (see below).
You can also try firefox28.pet extracted from the Sailor Enceladus' build of slacko 5.7.1:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 678#971678

josejp2424 provides an older version of Light included in his Puppy Stretch. But it crashes. Light 49 is newer and stays alive. Sfs Loaded on the fly

watchdog wrote:
light-49.0-racy5-glibc219tweak.pet

Running this in LxPrecise 13.11, working as a brilliant replacement for my tired old FF 45.02 ESR back-up browser, far lighter & quicker, and handles all the videos I've thrown at it thus far much better & more smoothly, notably including actually playing Twitter .gifs & videos, which no-one anywhere seems to have been able to get working in Palemoon in any OS!.

No audio in webpages at first but "apulse-0.1.11-i686-wz.pet" at http://www.smokey01.com/OscarTalks/ and a reboot sorted that!

Add-ons I've needed so far, VideoDownloadhelper and UblockOrigin, have installed fine (though obviously had to search the most recent versions built prior to FF57). Lack of add-ons is the major drawback with Palemoon.

Not yet tried installing it in my main day-to-day Puppies, Precise 5.71 and Wary 5.5 but don't foresee any problems, in Precise at least anyhow.

As ever, many thanks to everyone here in this thread for so freely sharing your skills, knowledge, & wisdom.

mods please delete

mods please delete, posted in error

Salty, gotta mind spacing inside those url tags Mate.

watchdog wrote: light-49.0-racy5-glibc219tweak.pet

Salty speaks..

Running this in LxPrecise 13.11, working as a brilliant replacement for my tired old FF 45.02 ESR back-up browser, far lighter & quicker, and handles all the videos I've thrown at it thus far much better & more smoothly, notably including actually playing Twitter .gifs & videos, which no-one anywhere seems to have been able to get working in Palemoon in any OS!.

No audio in webpages at first but "apulse-0.1.11-i686-wz.pet" at http://www.smokey01.com/OscarTalks/ and a reboot sorted that!

Add-ons I've needed so far, VideoDownloadhelper and UblockOrigin, have installed fine (though obviously had to search the most recent versions built prior to FF57). Lack of add-ons is the major drawback with Palemoon.

Not yet tried installing it in my favourite day-to-day Puppies, Precise 5.71 and Wary 5.5 but don't foresee any problems, in Precise at least anyhow.

As ever, many thanks to everyone here in this thread for so freely sharing your skills, knowledge, & wisdom.

Many thanks for reposting my comment Semme, wherever you saw it from.
NFI what I did wrong there; as you'll have seen, I tried more than once!

Your link had a space before the closing url tag. This never flies.

Ah, got it now

You'll probably (rightly) not believe this but I'm not totally inexperienced in posting to message boards, but would never have spotted that in this tiny font.
Thanks again, I owe you!

Hey, with only forty-nine posts in five years, we'll excuse it --THIS time.

csipesz now includes Light as browser, beside Opera.. that is ok.. Light would be enough..

@watchdog
You said:
--> If you have not reported at least the sse flag for your cpu then the --> last chance suggested by Robert123 is firefox27 developed by
--> 8Geee, if I well remember. It is the development of the
--> original firefox of slacko 5.7. You can search the forum for it.
--> It comes in a tgz package which I saved but I don't remember the
--> original link; firefox27.tgz:

--> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4 ... sp=sharing

The cpuinfo results for this machine are:



@watchdog
You said:
--> If you have not reported at least the sse flag for your cpu then the last chance suggested by
--> Robert123 is firefox27 developed by 8Geee, if I well remember. It is the development of the
--> original firefox of slacko 5.7. You can search the forum for it.
--> It comes in a tgz package which I saved but I don't remember the original link; firefox27.tgz:

--> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4 ... sp=sharing

The cpuinfo results for this machine are:

[CPUInfo v2.1.3 - Freeware ]

Processor information
=====================

[Processor]
Processor : Intel Pentium II (Deschutes)
Current Core Speed : 351 MHz
Current System Clock : 100,29 MHz
Multiplyer : 3,5x
Core Speed : 350 MHz
System Clock : 100 MHz
Front Side Bus : FSB100
Revision : B0
Socket : Slot 1

[CPUID]
Vendor ID : GenuineIntel
Type : Std: 0
Family : Std: 6
Model : Std: 5
Stepping : Std: 2
Brand ID : Std: 0
CPUID Level : Std: 00000002h

[L1 Cache]
Code Cache : 16 KB
Data Cache : 16 KB

[Other Cache]
Level 2 Cache : 512 KB
Level 3 Cache : ---

Feature Flags
=============

[Standard Feature Flags]

Bit Name Description Status
0 FPU Floating Point Unit integrated Yes
1 VME V86 Mode Extension available Yes
2 DE Support of I/O breakpoints Yes
3 PSE Support of Page Size Extension Yes
4 TSC Support of Time Stamp Counter Yes
5 MSR Support of Pentium compatible MSR Yes
6 PAE Support of physical Address Extensions Yes
7 MCE Support of Machine Check Exception Yes
8 CX8 Support of CMPXCHG8B instruction Yes
9 APIC Processor contains local APIC No
10 --- (reserved) No
11 SEP Support of SYSENTER-/SYSEXIT Extension Yes
12 MTRR Support of Memory Type Range Register Yes
13 PGE Support of Global Paging Table Yes
14 MCA Support of Machine Check Architecture Yes
15 CMOV Support of CMOVcc (and FCMOVcc/FCOMI) Yes
16 PAT Support of Page Attribute Table Yes
17 PSE36 Support of 36-bit Page Size Extensions Yes
18 PSN Pentium III Serial Number No
19 --- (reserved) No
20 --- (reserved) No
21 --- (reserved) No
22 --- (reserved) No
23 MMX Support of MultiMedia eXtensions Yes
24 FXSR Support of FXSAVE/FXRSTOR Yes
25 SSE Support of Intel ISSE extensions No
26 --- (reserved) No
27 --- (reserved) No
28 --- (reserved) No
29 --- (reserved) No
30 --- (reserved) No
31 --- (reserved) No

End of report.
==============


I downloaded and extracted ( tar -zxf ) the firefox 27 file
from the link above.
While extracting, it complained of being unable to create a
simlink to the profile, and said this could cause security problems,
but completed the extraction anyway.
I can launch Firefox from the .mozilla directory, and it opens
its window and tries to connect to an URL typed in the address bar,
but so far failed to connect to anything.
The network connection was OK and could be used with SeaMonkey,
within its limitations.
Are there any more detailed instruction about how to install this
Firefox ? I do not want the standard .pet installation to the savefile.
What is the difference between firefox and firefox-bin ?
Both files are near the same size and either one will launch
Firefox from commandline .

Try to post in the following thread for 8Geee's help:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107857

or send to him a PM.

[quote=" What is the difference between firefox and firefox-bin ?

AFAIK, none. Some Linux versions (not Puppies) expect a "bin" file, so firefox publishes one. IMHO, a waste of space and bandwidth.

I downloaded and extracted ( tar -zxf ) the firefox 27 file
from the link above. While extracting, it complained of being unable to create a
simlink to the profile, and said this could cause security problems,
but completed the extraction anyway.
I can launch Firefox from the .mozilla directory, and it opens
its window and tries to connect to an URL typed in the address bar,
but so far failed to connect to anything.[/quote]

firefox's profile folder is where settings, addons and bookmarks will be stored. Unless, like fredx181's firefox quantum portable the application is specifically packaged otherwise, AFAIK, all firefox packages are designed to create and use a profile folder in the user's home folder, which in Puppies will be the hidden folder in root: /root/.mozilla. Note the dot(.) Left-Click rox's Eye (or if using a different file-manager look in the "view" tab and make necessary changes) to see them.

I am not familiar with the firefox package you used. However, I do know that (a) you can not create a symbolic link having the same name and location as a file/folder with that name; nor can you create a symbolic link to a file/folder which doesn't exist. If the former, deleting .mozilla before installation would obviate the error; if the latter, copying /root/.mozilla from a Puppy which has it should obviate the error.

But before doing the above, open /usr/share/applications/firefox_WHATEVER.desktop in a text editor. Examine the line which begins with Exec=. If it includes more than the location and name of the executable (e.g. firefox) such as firefox %f or firefox /SOME URL, the application may be attempting to open a file or webpage which does not exist. Delete such specifications, save the file change, restart-x --which tells your Puppy to re-catalog what its system consists of-- and try firefox again. If that didn't work, don't Save the change to your SaveFile/Folder. Saving to the SaveFile/Folder will only complicate resolving the problem.

My only complaint about Ulight browser has been all the unsecure connection warnings. I have come up with an easy fix. See here