I see! But there was no warning message because it popped up by itself (welcome screen, with "woof woof!" sound effect). Newbies (like me) would simply enter other URLs in the obvious address bar and browse, finding all these glitches and then some. Interesting there is no default browser.playdayz wrote:midori is meant to be an internal browser for very limited purposes. When you start it from the menu there should be a warning message. There is a full version in the puppy Package Manager if you like midori, verifying that 5.1.1 works fine... but the browser is HORRIBLE. gmail.com or www.gmail.com fail miserably, the scroll bar disappears randomly, and whatnot. What is this "Midori" nonsense as default? XD
The first tiem you click the browse icon on the desktop youa re asked to choose a real browser!
Though my next gripe is with gnome-mplayer -- it's quite slow and scaling/stretching video is broken (I'm using the Xorg_High on an Intel 945 chipset with xv and X11 output). I'm guessing 5.1.1 wasn't as optimized? I also couldn't find the awesome gxine in 5.1.1 -- just my oversight? One more thing -- JWM's bottom panel disappeared (permanently) when I selected "bluish-gradient" as my GTK theme followed by "Use GTK theme" in JWM settings. Is this fixed in 5.2?
And though I can run 5.1.1 so easily and in all sorts of novel boot techniques, I can't load luci-238 no matter what I try. Remember, I have no CD drive and can't test via VM on this netbook. (And I ONLY have this netbook at my disposal right now).
A hint: at bootup, it looks for luci_238.sfs (note the underscore) while all other puppy versions (ever) have looked for name-### (note the DASH/HYPHEN). The significance of the underscore being bad was discussed ages ago under "Warning to MS Windows users" here, but the problem ONLY applies to 238, NOT 5.1.1 or 4.2, etc.