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elcurita · Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 24

Video and regular chat working real good with Firefox 3.66 and Lupu 5.1.Good work!. Thanks

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

elcurita ,

Great to hear that it's working on your system.

I've read mixed comments in other forums about it's quality.
Did you find the quality of audio and video as good as anything else you've experienced?

Cheers,
s

bowwow · Joined: 03 May 2010 Posts: 23 Location: Arizona

Would this pet be backward compatible to 5.01 with Firefox 3.6.3? Linux kernel 2.6.33.2 (i686)

If not, I wanted to ask first before crashing stuff.

thanx, ~ Dave

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

elcurita · Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 24

@seaside:
I did quite a few tests with my customers (I managed a small web retailer store) and we found that the best video chat with the best sound is Yahoo Messenger. However, Google chat is most suitable for us because of the "Documents" application and the clean workspace that provides without flash advertising.So.for business Google Chat for personal use Yahoo Chat (in our opinion and circumstance) Let me thank you again for your efforts in providing this plug in.

theinfamousj · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 82

Thank you SOOOOOooooooo much for this. ♥♥♥♥♥♥

Can anyone tell me if this will run on Puppy 4.2? I'm running Pupeee on my Eeepc. I'd really like to not repeat "The Great Firefox Crash of 2010" (what I'm calling what happened when I attempted to install the .deb) again. So please, warn me if it is going to crash.

♥,
J

Flash · Posted: Thu 16 Sep 2010, 08:25 Post_subject:

Theinfamousj,

Here's how to try out new programs without risking another Great Crash. Boot Pupeee from a live CD with the "puppy pfix=ram" boot option, so it doesn't access your save file, then install the program you want to try and give it a workout. If everything seems ok, you can shut down, boot the usual way and install the program.

This doesn't completely guarantee that the new program won't conflict with another program you've installed. I run Puppy from a multisession CD or DVD. If I install a program which causes problems, I simply don't save that session when I shut down. Cool

theinfamousj · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 82

Sad news to all, this crashes Firefox on Puppy 4.2.

Sad

-J-

J_Rey · Posted: Sun 17 Oct 2010, 01:45 Post_subject: Google Talk Plugin update

OK I tried this with Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 & SeaMonkey 2.0.8 and seemed to not work right at first except for stopping the crashes upon loading browser that happens with the regular .DEB from Google. I had only tested it by going to Gmail -> Settings -> Chat -> Verify Settings (which never has worked yet). So after realizing this .PET includes the initial release, 1.4.1.0, I installed the latest .DEB package with 1.5.1.0 on top of it. Then after the same results I tried making an actual test call & it sounded fine but the microphone wasn't picking up. Then I opened the tray icon retrovol and checked off Mic & Line & turned up the volume for those & tried again & was working OK now. Later I'll check on getting the sound levels to balance out & try the video chat too, but just thought I'd share what I've found and thanks for sharing the .PET package with us.

ilanrab · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 99

I attempted to install the PET package on Puppy 5.11. The installation attempt ended with: "Error, package googletalk-ff.pet failed to install".

Anyone got this error?
What did you do about it?

Thanks,
- Ilan -

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

ilan,

It might have installed. You can check this by typing in "about:plugins" on the Firefox url address line. See if the Google Talk plugin is listed.

If it isn't there, you might have a bad download and perhaps you could retry downloading.

Cheers,
s

ilanrab · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 99

Thank you Seaside.

That advice was right-on. The plugin did not show up in "about:plugins" (Firefox).

I went back to the download page. This time I downloaded the full package.
Apparently I was not supposed to download just the "ff" segment (as I previously assumed I was supposed to). There are actually 4 download packages (the full one, on the left, and 3 separate download segments, on the right), in the google-chrome browser page, I assumed that the "ff" package was for me. That assumption was obviously wrong.

This time I downloaded the full package (on the left side) and the installation went flawlessly. I went to the firefox "about:plugins", and saw the google-talk plugin on the list.

I then made some phone calls. Worked great.

My next step will be to test the video conferencing. I don't know anyone that uses google-talk for video conferencing at the moment. I use Skype mostly, but many people seem to use the Yahoo Messenger video conferencing application (not available on Linux, BTW).

Thanks again,
- Ilan -

Magruder · Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 31

Am I missing something?

I don't see a link to the download anywhere in this thread.

Magruder · Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 31

How bizarre...

The first message in this thread, from Seaside, is blank. But, if I hit the "Quote" button on that post I can read the message.

The googletalk-ff.pet file is posted at http://cid-a3cf84e23b41f496.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/googletalk-ff.pet.