Thank you all for your replies.

I am now checking out Oscartalk's suggestion of Firefox-esr which has got me up and running again

I downloaded it from the link given by jrb:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/rel ... inux-i686/

I can't update the 32bit firefox v72.01 to v73 on my 32bit slacko57 npae system. The update seems to work but clicking the restart button at the end gives an apologetic message & no working firefox I am using a Dell Latitude D630 computer grub-booted and shared with Windows XP. The system has wo...

It looks like "ffmpeg -v" is an incomplete set loglevel command which needs to be followed by a number(?). Hope this helps. In my 32bit frugal slacko5.7 system I get the following: The command ffmpeg -version gives the following ------------------------------------------- ffmpeg version 2....

Thank you Watchdog & Mike Walsh. That libatomic pet did the job & my 32bit fIrefox v64 is firing on all cylinders once more

I have just encountered a problem updating Firefox v63.0.3 to v64.0. I am using a 32bit frugal Slacko 5.7 npae with an updateable version of 32bit Firefox Quantum derived from firefox-34.0.5.tar.bz2. A while ago (July 2018) I had a problem updating from v60.0.1 to v61 due to missing libxul libraries...

I wonder if this might help? I'm using frugal slacko570 npae puppy which has a slackware-14.0 version of lame-3.99.5 pre-installed (check using the Puppy Package Manager). Lame is a very poweful mp3 utility. open a terminal and type 'lame --help' (without quotes) to see all the options for creating ...

@Musher0 & anyone else interested in the history of the hotbackup file for frugal puppies. I went back in time to an old computer gathering dust in the basement and found a file called hotbkup.tar.gz uploaded by a user named 2byte on Sat 12 Dec 2009 at 17:08. Attached is a zip file with his orig...

This pupsave-backup script makes a backup of the last-saved pupsave file while a frugal puppy is running. Just make sure the script is executable. I have been using this for years from pup431 upto and including pup570) it works well but I can't find any reference to the unsung hero who originally wr...

Thanks for the help Oscar

Thank you Oscar and dancytron.
Oscar where can I get a copy of this wheezy libdbus 1.6.8 of which you speak.

I found the Debian libdbus package download but had problems making use of it

Any suggestions?

I have just encountered a problem updating Firefox v60.0.1 to v61. I am using a frugal Slacko 5.7 npae with an updateable version of 32bit Firefox Quantum derived from firefox-34.0.5.tar.bz2. My Firefox has been updated successfully from the above v34 through all intermediate versions to its present...

I am using a 32bit version of puppy slacko5.7 which has ffmpeg built in. I can open a terminal in the folder containing the flv file (eg test.flv) & use the command ffmpeg -i test.flv test.mp4 To convert a flv video to mp4 format There is no significant change in quality & the mp4 filesize i...

Can Libreoffice print to a pdf file and if so how does this compare to your required landscape setup?

PS I have openoffice 4.0 on a slacko570 system and this had problems with portrait/landscape formats when printing via USB to a Brother HL2170 laser printer. OK to an old Canon S520 printer.

As an alternative, try installing this apulse package http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/apulse-0.1.8-i686-wz.pet Then just run Firefox as normal. Just a library so no need to start and stop daemons. Compiled in Wheezy but tested briefly and worked in Slacko 5.7 Works for me & frugal slacko5.7 npae...

Savefile memory can quickly be lost If a large download is accidentally saved to a location inside the savefile. Best thing is to save to a specified outside download directory. In Slacko5.7 frugal you can easily check if there are any very large 'rogue' files in the savefile. Use Menu/Filesystem/ G...

Same here on a frugal slacko57 system. I had downloaded a 32bit Firefox v34.05.tar.bz2 & successfully kept Firefox up to date until v45.01. The FFv46 update failed. Firefox was dead in the water with the missing libgtk-3 error. Can this be fixed? ========================== Thank you linuxcbon - ...

I'm using Slacko56npae frugal on a laptop, and on a USB for use on other computers. The built in Firefox is version 17.0.8 and I have reduced the cache requirement to 15Mb (Edit/preferences/Advanced/Override Automatic cache requirement).

Firefox seems to work fine with this reduction.

Hi bigpup, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I have finally checked the history of the Slacko56 npae thumbdrive - it was created on a Dell D630 laptop and the pupsave file came from a DELL Dimension 2400 PC. Its definitely a mongrel yet it all worked except for the freeze due to the FlSync...

Just got round to trying my Slacko56 npae bootable thumbdrive on a Samsung N110 netbook. Everything looked ok until the drive icons were painted and then the cursor froze. A plugged in mouse worked ok so I checked the Menu/Desktop/Flsynclient Touchpad config and set the Touchpad mode to 'Tap Off' - ...

The last time I had problems with the dreaded disappearing USB icons was with my old Dell 610 laptop. I was using a 4-USB hub and wasn't using a power cord. Each of the 4 usbs had 2 partitions (one fat and one ex2 with puppy). Over the space of several months I bagan to get random usb disappearances...