light-49.0 mozilla browser for 32-bit Puppies as sfs or pet

[hamoudoudou]

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

[Jose A. Senna]

@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
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[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 .

[watchdog]

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.

[mikeslr]

[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.

[jrb]

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

[watchdog]

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

I have rebuilt my package for racy glibctweaked with this fix from palemoon28_32:

light-49.0-1-racy5-glibc219tweak.pet:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZUJRsF ... sp=sharing

[Mike Walsh]

Unfortunately, we've reached the stage where a Pentium II will no longer run even a remotely usable browser. Nowt to do with the glibc, or dependencies, or anything like that; the CPU simply doesn't possess the required instruction sets to be able to process the code.

Only way round that would be an upgrade - to at least a Pentium III, (or preferably a P4) - and neither of those will fit the 'cartridge slot' socket that the P2s used. Unless you can find a very early, 'Katmai'-cored Pentium III.....the only PIII to still use the Slot-1 configuration:-





After that, Intel moved over to 'Socket 370', their first use of the fPGA package type:-





All PIIIs had at least the SSE instruction set.....and for that, there are SSE-only builds of PaleMoon floating around the forum.


Mike.