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Firedog 1.2 - a smarter, faster, more stylish browser suite
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DMcCunney
Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 897 |
Firefox 3.X worked in Puppy 4.12 and 4.31 for me. The problem is that FF3.X is big and slow on lower end hardware. On my system, FF 3.6 takes something like 40 seconds to load, and is perceptibly sluggish when up, with delays between selecting a menu choice and the action actually being performed. (My box has an 867mhz CPU, 256MB RAM, and a 40 GB UDMA 4 HD) Load speed is better in 4.31 than it was on 4.12, because I shifted to an ext4 file system when I upgraded. Firefox 3.6 is a minimal install with a subset of the extensions I normally use to reduce overhead. In Windows, I run the current 3.6.4 FF version, but the Windows box has a 2ghz CPU, UDMA 6 hard drives, and 4GB of RAM. It can run FF 3.6 acceptably. The Puppy box can't. To the extent that I browse from the Puppy box, I use SeaMonkey 1.1.19 in a "static" build. It's old and will not be maintained or enhanced further - 1.1.19 is an end-of-life release - but it works for what I do and I don't grow old and gray waiting for things to happen. I'd advice skipping over FF 3.0.X. That release series had some nasty memory leaks that were squashed in 3.5. ______ Dennis |
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chrismt
 Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 252 |
Firedog is a very nice browser But I wish there was a no frill just for browsing FireDog I have no need for chatzilla, RSS, Mail etc Best of luck |
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Colonel Panic
 Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500 |
I agree with Dennis's post above (Seamonkey 1.1.19, from which I'm posting, is a very good browser indeed IMO) but I'd also add that it's worth trying Opera too, especially the 10.10 pet which has been made of it. It does most if not all of what Firefox 3 can do and in my experience is also faster. It's got some great features too; the ones I particularly appreciate are the ability to turn off images and fit text in a text window to its width "on the fly" without having to adjust the relevant options in the "Preferences" menu. _________________ Stone Pentium IV (2.4 GHz), 2 GB of RAM, 30 GB hard drive running Puppy Precise 5.7.1 csipesz, Puppy 2.14X Classic Top10, Puppy EmSee v2.1, Puppy 3.01 Fire Hydrant, Puppy 4.12 Retro, Legacy OS2 LTS, Legacy OS4 and Midnight Sun 003. |
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chrismt
Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 252 |
I have read in Mozilla forums that Firefox 3xxx uses less ram than Firefox 2xxx but I am not sure.... Firefox 3xx is also more secure... I can't wait for the next version of FireDog Thanks |
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Frank Cox
Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381 |
On one of my puppies, 4,31 booted off a flash drive, FireDog goes away and I have to nuke it and reinstall every other time i use it, any ideas? |
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sc0ttman
 Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2372 Location: UK |
Does it disappear during your session or on reboot? If it vanishes after a reboot, I'd double-check your pup-save file is not full after installing Firedog. Maybe try renaming the firedog pet to .tgz and extracting it to a mounted partition...
Firedog is essentially Firefox with a million addons.. plus a customised, minimalist GUI.. But I think I will make a new Firedog soon, based on FF 3.6** So people need to tell me what they like.. Maybe only a minimal GUI (as before), with Flash10+Flashbock+NoScript... ? GIVE ME YOUR REQUESTS: Which features and addons would you like to see in the next version? Which features and addons would you like to see removed?
Try this: http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/bugs/firefox-2.0.0.20.pet user = puppy pass = linux Hope this helps _________________ Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search |
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chrismt
Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 252 |
I think you must make it minimal and based on the latest Firefox 3.6xx build. You might also try to make a FireDog based on the latest Firefox 3.7 Trunk build as an experimental build Try to keep the RAM low Regards |
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Frank Cox
Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381 |
I installed the image switch but it doesn't do anything. Any ideas? |
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sc0ttman
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2372 Location: UK |
Which one are you talking about? Cos I installed the most popular image switcher thing and it worked fine for me.. You might also like to try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1237/ _________________ Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search |
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Frank Cox
Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381 |
When I open file types / manage in preferences I see no way to change the default for pdf files. |
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Frank Cox
Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381 |
I played around with the settings and figured it out, thanks anyway! |
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Colonel Panic
Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500 |
I second all that, especially the low RAM requirement. Small is good where Puppy's concerned IMO; you can always add more addons etc. if you want them, but it's hard to know what to "strip out" if a program is too big or unwieldy. _________________ Stone Pentium IV (2.4 GHz), 2 GB of RAM, 30 GB hard drive running Puppy Precise 5.7.1 csipesz, Puppy 2.14X Classic Top10, Puppy EmSee v2.1, Puppy 3.01 Fire Hydrant, Puppy 4.12 Retro, Legacy OS2 LTS, Legacy OS4 and Midnight Sun 003. |
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Frank Cox
Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381 |
Where do you change preferences in FireDog such as which pdf editor to default to? |
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Frank Cox
Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381 |
There is a better add-on then image switcher called quickimage that lets you switch images on, off , or block 3rd party. |
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sc0ttman
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2372 Location: UK |
Thanks for the tip Frank, thats a nice one.. I like it. About changing the PDF viewer, This is done somewhere in the Preferences manu, I think in the "Applications" tab.. Not on Firefox/Firedog at all at the mo (Kameleon, on XP) _________________ Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search |
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