Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

poppopn · Joined: 01 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

Hi . new user, install for me went easy, am using p3 600mhz with 386ram
and has agp128 video card. using the seamonkey browser. I could not update browser when it told me i was using old version. ( using PL 4.2.1 )
? where do files go to when i download update ? I ran the extract file and got a box with more files that i tried to open.
? do i need flash player to view internet video sources ? how ?
my granddaughter likes to play on nick.com but video is very slow, what can i do to help this old computer? For other tasks Puppy has been amazing, new life for this old rig. I tried kubuntu but it was slower for many things and sound never would work. Puppy seems to just work great with hardware.
Is there any newer pets for firefox?

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

For flash game sites I find the flash block add on helps as there are often numerous adverts going on at the same time and hogging the cpu
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
some games are just really demanding and 1GHz is barely enough..othgers play fine on a 333MHz machine
..you tube..pretty heavy too.....some play the source video with a media player for better performance...
mike

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4355 Location: merriam, kansas

I use this for watching youtube videos; works quite well.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html