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Thank you.

Hey, ttuuxxx,

I installed FF3.5 with your .pet (and have upgraded to the latest, 3.5.5) on Puppy 4.3.1. Only one question: It's not offering to remember passwords. Any clue what's up with that?

TIA
Jeff

mailman1175 wrote:Hey, ttuuxxx,

I installed FF3.5 with your .pet (and have upgraded to the latest, 3.5.5) on Puppy 4.3.1. Only one question: It's not offering to remember passwords. Any clue what's up with that?

TIA
Jeff

Hi backup your bookmarks and then delete /root/.mozilla hidden folder. and restart firefox. Its probably reusing your old settings.
ttuuxxx

firefox updated to 3.5.6

How do I download this file. My login does not work.

BigDog

c'mon dude!

ttuuxxx wrote:

weffy wrote:Why am I always asked for a username and password to download something from this site? Is there another site I can go to to get 3.5?

usually any password on a puppy site is due to stop spam bots. We had very large issues in the past.
username:puppy
password:linux

ttuuxxx

Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject: Re: password?

Can it be clearer?

Aitch

oh, fun

posting from seamonkey, the 3.5.6 pet wouldn't run in 4.12

used the pet manager to uninstall, which deleted my old firefox as well

so i guess i have to re-install that now

wonderful doing all of this on dialup . . .

[test, test, test these damn pets, please!]

for firefox 3.5 on 4.12 you need lib-dbus and lib-dbus-glib....and you need the older version of the latter if using the 2.6.21 kernel...who said linux software is fussy?

mike

ps it does actually run well once you have jumped through the hoops

i decided to upgrade to 4.31

who says i'm backwards?

will try ff again

[getting absolutely NO work done this day]

EDIT - still no love, missing libORBIT, tired of downloading, hate seamonkey, and why doesn't the generic xorg driver work in 4.31--i hate xvesa too

[everything was so nice and happy in puppy 1.07 . . .]

missing libORBIT

I guess they are on one again...I was using 3.5.2....I just grab versions of apps when they demand less....and I still love my 1.5.

We are talking about a web browser?

mike

i've decided

i'm just gonna use the puppy html viewer



but wait!

what's it based on anyways? i was sort of kidding, but i have it running in another desktop and it's doing great

i had thought that it was a stripped-down dillo, but i guess not . . .

put the stop button back and enable right-click and i'm there!

Nice work Wolf Pup. Works like a charm

Thanks. Keep it up

Hello
I'm running puppy 4.31 on an old hp laptop from a usb stick, I installed the firefox 3.5.6 pet and eveytime I now go on it I'm asked if I want to update to 3.5.7, now on windoze I would just update but I was under the impression all linux firefox builds are specific to your distro, so I'm reluctant to update unless anyone knows different and this is a puppy update

The firefox pets are just the mozilla downloads with a desktop file added so in thoery it will ...not sure if it would use the same folder though...you can always download it and extract it to the place of the old one from mozilla...usually /usr/lib/firefox

mike

gonkbag wrote:Hello
I'm running puppy 4.31 on an old hp laptop from a usb stick, I installed the firefox 3.5.6 pet and eveytime I now go on it I'm asked if I want to update to 3.5.7, now on windoze I would just update but I was under the impression all linux firefox builds are specific to your distro, so I'm reluctant to update unless anyone knows different and this is a puppy update

Nope. 3.5.7 is a point release: bug and security fixes. If 3.5.6 works, 3.5.7 should too.

I've upgraded from the Mozilla site without issues. Linux x86 code tends to be the same regardless of distro: it's the packaging that differs. As long as you have the correct versions of the libraries programs want to link against, the program should run.

I've installed programs that weren't packaged for Puppy from a tgz file, manually extracting and putting things in the right places, and the programs ran fine. Because they weren't packaged as PET files, the metadata that provides things like Puppy menu entries wasn't tehre, but for the stuff I was installing that wasn't an issue. They were console apps that wouldn't have a menu entry.

The only problem I've seen with Mozilla code on Puppy is with SeaMonkey. The Mozilla installer wants to put a SeaMonkey upgrade into /usr/local/bin, but Puppy's default configuration has it in /usr/bin, so I wound up with two versions of SM 1.X and Puppy's menus pointing at the old one. Removing the old one form /usr/bin and symlinking the new one there from /usr/local/bin fixed it.
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Dennis

Firefox updated to 3.6 Final.

Just curious - that's the final release of 3.6 and not one of the RCs or such, right?

Makoto wrote:Just curious - that's the final release of 3.6 and not one of the RCs or such, right?

yes, the final version.

Okay. Just wanted to be sure.

Do pre-release versions (like the RCs, or even nightlies) register the updates to newer builds, and allow you to download them? I can't remember... it's been some time since I experimented with FF nightlies.

@puppyluvr

"Close the "Windows", and open your eyes, to a whole new world"
http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/puppyluvr/

Sorry this is off topic but I saw this under your post. How does one become a 'Registered Puppy Linux User'?

[edited: forgot to add puppyluvr's name on the post)