Firefox 9 -- next version, same game as FF 8

[willem1940NLD]

Also, "more pets" out of reach now in petget.

Offside: why are several of such and other important pets missing in 525/Lucid package manager ..... e.g, Startmount, Guvcview ..... ?

[willem1940NLD]

Things are worsening.

Couldnt use "click" links given in chats, they only open my home page in browser.

Uninstalled Firefox9 and found Firefox4 disappeared from petget & package manager; picked offered No.7 instead, working fairly well.

But: Install_crashplayer(flashplayer) dead, no use trying de/re-install; it pretends to install but does no more appear in menu.

I am getting annoyed wiping and re-installing puppy 525 almost daily.

BBL

[bigpup]

willem1940NLD,

Is there some reason you have not moved to Lucid Puppy 5.2.8.004.
It is much improved over Puppy 525.

Get mad at Firefox for their screwed up Linux update.

[willem1940NLD]

willem1940NLD,

Is there some reason you have not moved to Lucid Puppy 5.2.8.004.
It is much improved over Puppy 525.

Get mad at Firefox for their screwed up Linux update.

528 main problem, several upgrades as well as clean installs tried: it killed my Alsa sound within 3 reboots, repeated setup of no use. Even speaker icon in tray bottom right never returned.

Fighting again with Slacko 531 now, 3rd clean re-install; cannot get Libreoffice working, it just doesn't open up for me. Borrowed 1.6 java Lupu pet installed without comments but is of no help. Slacko further works fine, using (lupu) Pidgin pet 2.1. I find it stable so far and pleasantly quick even with full Ext3 format on stick USB1. It uses Seamonkey pre-installed. Would like to keep Slacko but I need Office.

Now thinking about again a new install 525 and trying a different browser, before having any traces of firefox on board.

Might all this keep failing then I will give 431 a new try.

[RetroTechGuy]

Now thinking about again a new install 525 and trying a different browser, before having any traces of firefox on board.

Might all this keep failing then I will give 431 a new try.

I found that 5.20 was less power-hogging than 4.3.1 Had tried the earlier 5.x series, but they weren't inspiring enough to make me upgrade from my working 4.3.1.

5.20 made me jump right on board (and it worked so well, that I was hesitant to upgrade to 5.28 -- but I broke my 5.20 save file, and figured I give it a try).

Only recently upgraded from 5.20 to 5.28 (since I have frugal installs, I still have 5.20 laying around on several machines).

Put 5.25 on a really old laptop, which seems to work well (light memory load, which is good for that old critter). It had 4.3.1 Retro previously, but that was hardware intensive also. 4.12 worked pretty well on it.

But you shouldn't have to go back that far...

Don't recall if you mentioned it, but what's your hardware? Relatively new, isn't it? (i.e. > 1 GHz processor, etc).

[willem1940NLD]

I use a rather old tower 995MHz 1GB RAM. Mainboard apparently has an IDE problem because suddenly I cannot use harddisks anymore which it maybe kills itself because at interchanging with harddisks from another computer (435MHz) the problem was present in both.

USB still works, a bit tricky as I had to find out, because it accepts an OS to start with only from the original 2 USB1 entrances, so I can only start using slow USB1 although I can very well install or save very quickly to an extra USB2 pci card 5-entrances.

I have to use CD for first seconds booting to start as the bios gives no facility to boot directly from USB.

I am planning to find some new hardware, booting from USB2 or USB3, large RAM support (8GB or better) and no harddisk. Passive cooling, no ventilators. Stuff of the kind seems to be scarce though and still unreasonably expensive.

[willem1940NLD]

Started lupu 525 CD and immediately installed one of the lower 2+ versions Seamonkey as offered (not the beta of course).

As usual, I installed addon XMarks; not the usual dialogue, so I opened it by hand and made the settings. No result, no bookmarks retrieved.

Reboot without saving.

Used Dillo to go to NLUUG and found there newer/higher versions Seamonkey marked for puppy 525.

Picked Seamonkey 2.4 and installed addon XMarks which now worked and I then disabled since I have bad experience with alive addons.

Installed 525 on USB stick and rebooted:
- install flashplayer dead
- quickpet partly paralyzed, a.o cannot reach "more pets" and "news"
- many sudden Seamonkey crashes, self-recovering in restart.
====

Maybe I need a browser outside the Mozilla family.

Note: I keep using XMarks since "Sync" seems a bad joke to me; endless dialogues and never got a bookmark retrieved, I deleted my account.

[rokytnji]

I got tired of trying to get Opera to pick up symlinked libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/pluglins folder. Opera came stock in install in Lighthouse 503. I'm using Flash 11. Opera picked up all my other plugins. Flash player seemed invisible to it /though. And yes. I included symlink paths from /user/lib/opera/plugins and /usr/lib/adobeflashplayer>(where the symlinks pointed to)

So I downloaded SeaMonkey 2.6.1.tar.bz2 and Firefox 9.0.1.tarbz2 using Opera first

So did a .

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locate opera

To get a list of all the installed Opera files and proceeded to delete all opera files in Lighthouse. Also removed Opera Launcher from Menu and Wbar.

Next extracted SeaMonkey and Firefox and put them in /opt. Next made a symlink for SeaMonkey and Firefox in /usr/local/bin pointing them to /opt/firefox/firefox and /opt/seamonkey/seamonkey.

Next made new Icon launchers for wbar using the symlinks I made in /usr/local/bin as launcher paths. Icons are from /usr/share/pixmaps.

All my plugins are now picked up in both browsers. No crashes or problems yet.
Flash and Java and Mplayer and all the other plugins work OK. Checked Help menu Updater Mechanism. Seems OK also.

[willem1940NLD]

Just tried again a clean install 525 with Opera .... 3 times ..... Opera crashes at every closing.

Not much fun today.

[willem1940NLD]

All is well that ends well .... I forgot all the time to look in quickpet column "Internet" where old Firefox4 still is listed.

525 reasonably stable again now and I intend to stick to FF4 till I am sure something better is ready.

[RetroTechGuy]

All is well that ends well .... I forgot all the time to look in quickpet column "Internet" where old Firefox4 still is listed.

525 reasonably stable again now and I intend to stick to FF4 till I am sure something better is ready.

Tman has a .sfs of FF9 (which should allow you to mount it, try it, and umount it if it doesn't work):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72177

Playdayz has rebuilt/repaired FF9 (Firefox-9.0.1-2-Lucid.pet):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 178#594178
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ges-lucid/

This is suppose to fix the problem that Firefox would not use its own libraries (and eliminated the symlinking we had been doing, which can cause other problems).

Obviously, I would back up your lupusave before trying this (I try to always have a fresh backup before installing new software). I always have 3 or 4 lupusaves laying around all the time (often in addition to my backups).

I put some version of FF9 on my 5.25 install, and it seemed to work.

I need to rebuild this 5.28 install (and upgrade to 5.28.004) since I mucked with symlinks and such to fix the system -- I'm going to try a fresh install, and then try Playdayz FF9...

BTW, a 995MHz with 1GB RAM shouldn't be too bad. I have a 900MHz Netbook that runs 5.20 without problem (going to try 5.28 eventually).

One thing I've seen is that Firefox will eat a lot of RAM, so you might want a largish swap partition or file (on my 2 1GB RAM system, I run 1.17 GB swap, just larger than my RAM -- I'm running no swap on the 1GB netbook, since it's all flash memory).

[RetroTechGuy]

Started lupu 525 CD and immediately installed one of the lower 2+ versions Seamonkey as offered (not the beta of course).

As usual, I installed addon XMarks; not the usual dialogue, so I opened it by hand and made the settings. No result, no bookmarks retrieved.

Reboot without saving.

Used Dillo to go to NLUUG and found there newer/higher versions Seamonkey marked for puppy 525.

Picked Seamonkey 2.4 and installed addon XMarks which now worked and I then disabled since I have bad experience with alive addons.

Installed 525 on USB stick and rebooted:
- install flashplayer dead
- quickpet partly paralyzed, a.o cannot reach "more pets" and "news"
- many sudden Seamonkey crashes, self-recovering in restart.
====

Maybe I need a browser outside the Mozilla family.

Note: I keep using XMarks since "Sync" seems a bad joke to me; endless dialogues and never got a bookmark retrieved, I deleted my account.

What would be interesting to try...

When your system does this, open the terminal and enter

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free

(this will report free memory) -- I wonder if you're becoming memory-bound, and something isn't releasing the memory (when you run out of memory, things get sluggish -- some of the Gurus here whipped up a script to flush the RAM when that happens).

If desired, I'll post my script to flush these buffers.

[willem1940NLD]

I will read further messages quite interestedly .... till I think something newer than FF4 is trustworthy.

[willem1940NLD]

Firefox 4, after a few sessions and reboots:

- install flashplayer pet is in menu, but dead
- Firefox crashes every time I close it.

[RetroTechGuy]

Firefox 4, after a few sessions and reboots:

- install flashplayer pet is in menu, but dead
- Firefox crashes every time I close it.

Interesting...

This is 5.25, right?

How are you running your system? Lin'N'Win or otherwise installed? Boot from flash? Or boot from CD, reading save file on HDD?

I wonder if your lupusave is becoming corrupted.

If booting the CD, when offered a command line, enter "puppy pfix=fsck"

If you have it installed or running from flash, we can patch your boot sequence to automatically "fsck" the lupusave on every boot (I've been doing this since 4.3.1).

[willem1940NLD]

Changing ....

I boot starting CD first few seconds which activates my puppy525 USB stick in original USB1 of mainboard. Mainboard/bios has no facility to boot from USB. No other OS on board and no harddisk.

Made a 2GB Linux swap partition on an extra USB stick and put it to the extra USB2 card which I have to remove the (any) stick from before booting, else CD takes over and goes RAM only. If I put a stick with OS there, booting blocks after loading pupsave. So, I have to insert the "swapstick" after booting.

FF4 suddenly seemed to improve, did not crash at 10 times open/close.

Tried FF9 again but it keeps putting half of Petget out of reach so back to FF4 again and will see what next sessions bring.

[sredmon]

I am using 5.2.8-4 and have tried every suggestion to make FF9 work, but it continues to freeze and will not play youtube videos. Unintalled FF9, reinstalled FF8, copied my profile into /root/.mozilla/firefox, started FF8 - all add-ons setup as previously, no freeze, and youtube played immediately.

[willem1940NLD]

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What would be interesting to try...

When your system does this, open the terminal and enter

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free

(this will report free memory) -- I wonder if you're becoming memory-bound, and something isn't releasing the memory (when you run out of memory, things get sluggish -- some of the Gurus here whipped up a script to flush the RAM when that happens).

If desired, I'll post my script to flush these buffers.

I used "free" command, with all progs (firefox, pidgin, skype, office) closed ...... of my 1GB RAM, less than 200MB free only and often less than 50.
No idea what causes this.

Isn't there a "pet" for your script to be installed automatically? I am not a technician, might cause harm.

[RetroTechGuy]

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What would be interesting to try...

When your system does this, open the terminal and enter

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free

(this will report free memory) -- I wonder if you're becoming memory-bound, and something isn't releasing the memory (when you run out of memory, things get sluggish -- some of the Gurus here whipped up a script to flush the RAM when that happens).

If desired, I'll post my script to flush these buffers.

I used "free" command, with all progs (firefox, pidgin, skype, office) closed ...... of my 1GB RAM, less than 200MB free only and often less than 50.
No idea what causes this.

Isn't there a "pet" for your script to be installed automatically? I am not a technician, might cause harm.

I don't know that there is a "pet".

I just place this script in "/root/my-applications/bin/" (you can name it anything you want -- just make sure that the name doesn't already exist -- open a blank file, paste in the contents, save and make sure it has "execute" privilege).

I don't recall which guru(s) we have to thank for this (I'm thinking it was bruce, but won't swear to it at the moment).

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clear
echo " Initial free space"

free

echo ""
echo " clearing cache"
sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
echo ""

echo " Final free space"
free

[RetroTechGuy]

Let's Call This Testing for Now! At least it's on the fast server

This is a new version from the previous 9.0.1 pet. This is 9.0.1-2. The code below is implemented in this new pet.

Firefox 9.0.1 seems very sensitive to how it is started. One way it starts but it locks up. Another way it doesn't lock up but flashplayer doesn't work. This way seems to work.

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/usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

Firefox 9.0.1-2 -> http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/Firef ... -Lucid.pet

You should uninstall any other Firefox pets before installing 9.0.1-2. And it should be OK to update--for a while at least

BTW playdayz, I did a clean 5.28 upgrade to v.004 (just to make sure I have no remnants of older versions -- I have multiple lupusaves, and rather than patch each of them....), then I installed the latest FF9.01-2.

Thus far, it seems to be working fine (I needed to add in the latest flash player also).

Looks good -- I'll keep abusing it and see...