Why does Firefox 3.06 keep crashing on Puppy Linux 4.1?

[ttuuxxx]

HyerMan
At least have a fatpuppy version that has a rock solid browsing experience.

My main focus is stability
I don't care about new version numbers I stick to what works
I can't aford to lose time and work caused by a browser crash
since the browser gets heavily abused by me everyday


don't upgrade to firefox 3.00 when it asks for an update


I built this one
http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/firef ... .124.0.pet


just a note: even on Slackware (with full lib packages )firefox 3+ has problems after it upgrades


there are other options
pick the one that works

big_bass

Yes I agree with that fully,
Like FirePup on series 4.0+
or ff3 on Dpup
ttuuxxx

[big_bass]

ttuuxxx

good to hear that firefox3+
works on a Debian base

I am working on a "build" so I'll be busy for quite ahwile
*won't have time to mess with the latest firefox 3+*
and like I said above I only care to have a solid system
at this point in time I don't even care about the final size
of the ISO

just want it solid

that means there is something on the Debiian base that is needed
for puppy and slackware

the bad part is when firefox version 3+
crashes it does a total lock up frozen solid
which makes it more difficult to debug


big_bass

[ttuuxxx]

FF3 runs just as fast as FirePup on Debian/Dpup, very responsive. Thats the real reason why I'm working with Dpup now, because Firefox is the most sought after browser, and not to be able to offer the latest version is somewhat DSL job,lol not puppy But I still like Firepup the best
But at least I'll be able to make a new version for Dpup Thats the best part where as with series 4 I was really stick with 1.5 or 2 series which are basically the same minus spellcheck, but I managed to get that working in 1.5
ttuuxxx

[Colonel Panic]

This probably needs a new thread, but has anyone tried using Flock in Puppy? It's based on Firefox but with a few extras built in to make blogging, sharing photos online etc. easier. Looks quite attractive too IMO.

[ttuuxxx]

This probably needs a new thread, but has anyone tried using Flock in Puppy? It's based on Firefox but with a few extras built in to make blogging, sharing photos online etc. easier. Looks quite attractive too IMO.

Yes I've tried flock in the past, same with icecat, iceweasel. etc Its just that puppy is missing something or there's a bug in a library it was also a gradual thing, The first firepup I built was on 1.0 and then the regular based on 1.5, when series 2.0 came out everybody noticed a bit of a slowdown, then with each FF release it was slower and slower and slower, Finally series 3 was released and even when I compiled on puppy a couple of times, even tried the latest glib,gtk, cario, pango, and then compiled it, and it still was the slowest version yet. Thats when I gave up on compiling it, until dpup happened and I tried Iceweasel which is FF 3.0.6 that ran perfect. I then tried it on puppy, it said not missing anything and I also had that update from this thread installed, and once again it was a crap version, Its just series 4.0 just doesn't work right with FF3.
ttuuxxx
PS now back to Dpup

[drummachine]

Hey ttuuxxx,

still runs slow with FF 3.0.6 with 4,2 using your latest package. Sorry
try this page and move your scrollbars up and down
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
works perfect in dpup.

Did some tests with Firefox 3:

PIII Notebook with 4MB Trident Card - xorg-driver=trident:
Puppy 4.12 with gtk core Update --> sloooow but stable
dpup: slooooow but stable

Core2Duo Notebook with NV GeForce 8400M - xorg-driver=NV:
Puppy 4.12 with gtk core Update --> stable but slooow (simply UNUSABLE)
dpup: stable and much more faster

Core2Duo Notebook with NV GeForce 8400M - xorg-driver=NVidia (proprietary driver):
Puppy 4.12 with gtk core Update --> stable and fast as lightning !!!

Seems that the slowness is not a gtk-problem.

[ttuuxxx]

Hey ttuuxxx,

still runs slow with FF 3.0.6 with 4,2 using your latest package. Sorry
try this page and move your scrollbars up and down
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
works perfect in dpup.

Did some tests with Firefox 3:

PIII Notebook with 4MB Trident Card - xorg-driver=trident:
Puppy 4.12 with gtk core Update --> sloooow but stable
dpup: slooooow but stable

Core2Duo Notebook with NV GeForce 8400M - xorg-driver=NV:
Puppy 4.12 with gtk core Update --> stable but slooow (simply UNUSABLE)
dpup: stable and much more faster

Core2Duo Notebook with NV GeForce 8400M - xorg-driver=NVidia (proprietary driver):
Puppy 4.12 with gtk core Update --> stable and fast as lightning !!!

Seems that the slowness is not a gtk-problem.

Tronkel also mention that it could be xorg, but it does make sense to a point, dpup is fast out of the box and its only 101MB, I don't think its using a Nvidia driver either. Now thats what we need to figure out:) hows it doing it?
ttuuxxx

[big_bass]

ttuuxxx I am using 3.08

firefox and its looking good


no crashes yet and fast
mozilla-firefox-3.0.8-i686-1.tgz

I dont even care to package it
big_bass

[ttuuxxx]

ttuuxxx I am using 3.08

firefox and its looking good


no crashes yet and fast
mozilla-firefox-3.0.8-i686-1.tgz

I dont even care to package it
big_bass

Isn't that with your own custom Slackware 12.1 base your using?
You lucky Guy you, lol maybe a link to the iso???
ttuuxxx

[lightheaded1]

don't upgrade to firefox 3.00 when it asks for an update
hope this is relevent
I installed the new puppy 4.2 (I like ++good) and was usuing seamonkey
yesterday I notisted that it crashed for no reason so i loaded firepup 4.3 which has always proved more stable than any firefox version I have tried(good stuff
tuxx ,kudos) didn't use it till this morning when I clicked the browse button and it became the default browser without me even selecting it as such(pushy eh?)
The very first thing it displayed was the upgrade page so rather than take their word that it was the best i randomly checked the forum to see if anyone had had isues and I see big bass comment .Thank you . note I am not a geek i barely understand geekspeake but I like to surf .and since I am an old (pre Thatcher) ex pat living in Canada when I see anthing free well who can resist
I have crashed quite a few opperatind syistems by putting too many free programs into the mix so now I am wary.It seems I am becoming more expert than I ever wanted to be and all because I like porn.Funny eh???

thanks again to all the puppy community you have saved me from a life behind closed Gates

[hursh]

my firefox 3.0.8 on puppy 4.2 always crashes whenever I close any of the open tabs. So I dont close any tabs !!!!

it used to crash in puppy 4.1.2 as well but not so frequently. mostly on my company's specialised portal.

[AndrewG]

Hi. Does anyone have these files from drummachine's post?
I need them to run Transmission 2.0 on Puppy 4.1
thank's

@ tazoc

tried my.yahoo.com and had also crashes.
Had to update complete gtk-core to stop it crashing.
You can try this:

For Puppy 4.1x:
gtk-core-update

For Puppy 4.2 (without libjasper dependency):
gtk-core-update-p42

ONLY FOR TESTING PURPOSES!!

(contains glib-2.18.4, pango-1.22.4, pixman-0.14.0, cairo-1.8.6, gtk+-2.14.7)

UPDATE 26. March 2009: smaller pet (dropped the large unnecessary locales folder)

UPDATE 02. April 2009: updated libpangocairo was missing

And the development part (for the sake of completeness):
gtk-core-update-dev

I use this update on a full install since 2 weeks without any problems!!!!

[tazoc]

Here's most of the original pet. Let me know if you need the locales. I couldn't find libpangocairo for this.

http://lhpup.org/pet/4/Gtk-core-update.pet

I didn't know that Transmission 2.0 was out, will have to add it to Lighthouse Pup.

-TazOC