Portable Browser Installer
Posted: Thu 09 May 2019, 01:10
I have built a small .pet for 32bit OS's which will place an entry on your internet menu which will download the latest Firefox, Palemoon and/or Seamonkey, install them to a drive of your choice, remember that drive even if the name changes (usb order of insertion), place an entry on the Internet menu and ask if you want to make it your default browser.
Running this way will save use of ram as the browser files are not uploaded to ram like Puppy.
Older operating systems may need an upgrade of Yad to get the gui functional. When you install this .pet it will offer to download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... mmon32.pet to the root directory.
Sadly there's no guaranteeing the latest browsers will work in your older systems. I have tested in Precise-light and Bionic32-light and it works well. As soon as I finish this post I'll boot up Tahr32, try it, and report back (should have thought of that before DOH!).
Big thanks to fredx181 for the use of his Firefox install script and his testing and feedback.
I just added the PortaBrowseInstall-i386-0.4.pet which will download and install an updated version of Yad if you need and want it. It also will install Thunderbird email client. The installs are now truly portable in that the profiles are contained in the portable directories and will be maintained from Puppy to Puppy.
Running this way will save use of ram as the browser files are not uploaded to ram like Puppy.
Older operating systems may need an upgrade of Yad to get the gui functional. When you install this .pet it will offer to download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... mmon32.pet to the root directory.
Sadly there's no guaranteeing the latest browsers will work in your older systems. I have tested in Precise-light and Bionic32-light and it works well. As soon as I finish this post I'll boot up Tahr32, try it, and report back (should have thought of that before DOH!).
Big thanks to fredx181 for the use of his Firefox install script and his testing and feedback.
I just added the PortaBrowseInstall-i386-0.4.pet which will download and install an updated version of Yad if you need and want it. It also will install Thunderbird email client. The installs are now truly portable in that the profiles are contained in the portable directories and will be maintained from Puppy to Puppy.