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alfisti · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 31

firefox 4 portable (with the script from here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55014 )

http://rapidshare.com/files/452240062/firefox-4.0rc1portable.tar.bz2

Extract tar.bz2 and run /firefoxportable.

alfisti · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 31

firefox 4.0.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

portable
http://rapidshare.com/files/453840488/firefox-4.0.portable.tar.bz2

Dingo · Posted: Tue 22 Mar 2011, 13:17 Post subject:

not working in puppy 3.01

alfisti · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 31

if extract the downloaded archive and double click the file called "firefoxportable"? (not firefox-bin!).

Dingo · Posted: Tue 22 Mar 2011, 13:44 Post subject:

this is a problem originated by Mozilla Foundation: they have decided to move to a to newer Glibc, so, precompiled builds from mozilla site, cannot work on linuxes having older Glibc

in order to make working we need, in puppy 3.01, a new Glibc, that is a not so easy task (replace or adding a newer Glibc, the mother of all libs) avoiding to cause problems with other apps compiled against previous Glibc version

read what ttuuxxx said, I need to do the same thing for Puppy 3.01:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4745

possible workaround
mv /usr/libstdc++.EXTENSION mv /usr/libstdc++_old.EXTENSION (and update the symlinks)

make a hack.c with:
#define GLIBCXX_3.4.9

gcc hack.c -o /usr/libstdc++.EXTENSION -lstdc++_old
(may need to add some extra flags)

update the symlinks

I haven't had to do this in a while, so I am sure that I've missed parts.

Master_wrong · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 456

http://lifehacker.com/#!5783594/firessh-is-a-browser-based-ssh-client-written-entirely-in-javascript

might be useful

Dingo · Posted: Tue 22 Mar 2011, 18:04 Post subject:

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1438 Location: England

Thanks for doing it for me Very Happy

. Though could you host it on a decent free file hosting please. Like http://www.myfreefilehosting.com/.

snayak · Joined: 14 Sep 2011 Posts: 356

Hi,

Looking for firefox portable. I came here, however, the file is not present in rapid share. Is there anywhere else I can find the file? How much is the file size?

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6733 Location: hobart

Although I can't see the need for a portable firefox, as it can run from wherever it's extracted to, perhaps you could try one of the versions here.

snayak · Joined: 14 Sep 2011 Posts: 356

Hi muggins,

The need arised because of a bug in wary530.
Firefox installs well, but now, if we go to Menu->Internet->Seamonkey it opens firefox. Then onwards seamonkey can only be opened by explicit command from terminal.

So I wanted to have a portable version so that I can use seamonkey from menu or desktop.

Can we change/modify code to correct the behavior after firefox install? then it shall be great.

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

snayak · Joined: 14 Sep 2011 Posts: 356

Thanks muggins.

I got the firefox6 from the link provided by you.
Also I had to get libdbus from ubuntu packages for lucid.

It runs like a horse. Very Happy

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6733 Location: hobart

I just got around to booting wary 5.3, and see why firefox took over from seamonkey.

If you open /usr/share/applications/SeaMonkey-web-browser.desktop, in a text editor, you can see the line Exec=mozilla. If you just change this to Exec=seamonkey, there shouldn't be any conflict.

snayak · Joined: 14 Sep 2011 Posts: 356

Many thanks muggins.

Now I see. 2-3 days back I was looking closely at seamonkey, firefox, thunderbird. Since they are from same mozilla base, a lot of places they mention "mozilla". Very difficult to know what that word mozilla mean; does it start seamonky/firefox/thunderbird. With that fear may be I couldnt dare to change .desktop file for seamonkey.

I will definitely try it.