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mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

Ok feedback time after my usual unscientific testing.

Found a repeatable crash on firefox 3.0.7 from mozilla...flash 10.0.15...puppy 4.12
Basically involved browsing back between videos on you tube....kill and restart same session gave the same freeze.

Dropped in your glib 1.800 libs (no libgio) , restarted firefox...no freeze...continued to abuse it on you tube with no hiccups.
In fact the whole performance was much snappier on my 700mhz machine...with the old glibc was like wading through custard.
Definatly seems like a good fix for now...I will install this setup for the family to test out

mike

tazoc

Techtype found this one: Open http://my.yahoo.com and move your pointer to a news link, hold to activate the javascript, then up and down a few more links and then away. Crashes every time for me. I'm using Lighthouse 4.1.2-b5.

I tried the glib-2.18.4-i486 unzipping into / the tar.gz posted earlier. Still crashing but not sure if I did it correctly. Firefox 3.0.7 and 3.1beta3 also crash. I understand FF 2.x does not exhibit this behavior but I prefer the latest versions.

I haven't tried it in Puppy 4.1.2 yet, but I did try a clean install of Firefox 3 in Newyearspup 02. It does not crash--rock solid.
-TazOC

drummachine · Joined: 13 Feb 2009 Posts: 15

@tazoc

try the first pet.

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

tazoc · Posted: Thu 19 Mar 2009, 16:44 Post subject:

@drummachine,
Thank you for the pet. I tried the first one, installed fine, but FF still crashes on my.yahoo.com. Thought maybe it was because of LighthousePup, so I switched to a clean frugal install of Puppy 4.1.2 and FF 3.0.7, with no SFS files. Installed your first pet and rebooted. FF still crashes. The only thing that prevents the crashing is to disable Javascript in FF Preferences | Content.

In a terminal:

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

drummachine · Joined: 13 Feb 2009 Posts: 15

@ 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!!!!

HyerMan · Joined: 22 Jan 2009 Posts: 30

I never thought this thread would grow like this. I would contribute more if I was experienced with compiling things on Linux (I guess I'll have to learn).

One thing that almost always causes a crash on FF (and on Bon Echo) is when there is video or something that will cause gxine 0.5.9 to launch. My daughter on facebook will actually get puppy to crash that way.

In reading through this thread it has become clear to me that THE key app for puppy to have work great is Firefox. The number one thing that people do with a computer is surf the web. The browsers are continuing to compete and improve. Sites are taking advantage of the latest scripting and media features. FF is really the standard bearer. Notice how IE8 is going to match the standard. I think there is value in supporting the latest web browser features even if it impacts the size of puppy. At least have a fatpuppy version that has a rock solid browsing experience.

Just my 2 cents. I guess I need to learn how to compile FF in order to contribute more.

tazoc · Posted: Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:27 Post subject:

@drummachine,
Yes, gtk-core-update.pet works! Amazing! Very Happy

It works in LighthousePup as well as Puppy 4.1.2. If this proves stable I think many FF users will appreciate it.

I extracted the pet after testing it and I'm wondering if removing the gtk.desktop and the big locale folder (inside the pet, not Puppy) would be a problem. Can't resist trying to prune it for Lighthouse...

Well done!
-TazOC

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

jkasten · Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 1

Thanks drummachine for the gtk-core-update.pet file. It fixed my problem with facebook crashing in firefox 3.0.7 when entering anything in the search box in facebook. I was wondering if anyone knows why the text in the menu and URL on looks like kinda of smashed together in the firefox GUI. For example on the History in the menu the H and i are touching. Kinda reminds me of what happens when you have a an lcd monitor not in native resolution with no sub-pixel settings like clear type in windows turned on.

drummachine · Joined: 13 Feb 2009 Posts: 15

you can set a gtk-system-font inside puppy with the "gtk theme chooser".
The menu and URL fonts in Firefox 3 will look much better afterwards.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 02 Apr 2009, 11:01 Post subject:

missing libjasper.so.1 in puppy 4.2 when installed your latest version.
Please provide the package if possible with dev's.
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 02 Apr 2009, 11:19 Post subject:

still runs slow with FF 3.0.6 with 4,2 using your latest package. Sorry Confused

try this page and move your scrollbars up and down
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
works perfect in dpup.
ttuuxxx

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736