(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[gcmartin]

@Semme inspired an idea to upgrade the opening post's PET installation. It resulted in this.

• On my PhatSlacko, the PET installed PaleMoon in /opt.
  
• So I downloaded @Semme's pointer and double-clicked the downloaded ...tar/bz2
  
• When asked where to extract the contents to, I replied "/opt".
  
• Upon completion, I went to Menu>Internet>Palemoon to open the browser.

Thanks @Semme

[Semme]

For testing, you should've extracted to anywhere else, then drag the exec onto your desktop.

Sure it uses your existing profile, but, you'd gain a sense of how portable most exec's out there actually are.

[gcmartin]

[Semme]

Don't over-think it >> http://www.palemoon.org/faq.shtml#How_do_I_update_Pale_Moon

[gcmartin]

Yeah, I saw that earlier. This, from that site, is what prompted my approach:

[wimpy]

I tried the pet, and it seemed to install OK. However, it then stuck when invoked from the Internet menu. Running from a terminal, it bombed out with "Illegal Instruction". I tried the pet and tar approach but it ended up with the same message. Are the linux versions all 64bit? I would be grateful for any help or suggestions in getting pale moon installed and running on a 32bit puppy system.

[666philb]

hi wimpy,

what puppy are you using?
there's a new pet on the first post version 24.7.1

[wimpy]

Thanks for the reply. I was using a Precise 5.7.1 with the Mate desktop. I can try it for a variety of other distros and on another machine, if necessary.

[666philb]

hi wimpy,

did you try the new pet? (on first post) it should work in precise

[wimpy]

Yes. I tried the new pet, with and without pfix=ram. It made no difference - it still comes back with "Illegal instruction". I've also recently tried the latest chromium and pepperflash sfs (there's a thread in this sector) and that did the same thing - "Illegal instruction". These two are the only times I've got this message, FWIW I changed to another PC with the same type of CPU and RAM but different mobo. That one gives the same message.

[Puppus Dogfellow]

installed and performs flawlessly on precise 5.5, 5.6.1, and 5.7.1. very fast--firefox before they ruined it plus the ability to zoom google documents without things getting bizarre. also, page numbering works for the first time. update installed over the original with no problems and menu entries worked ootb. thank you, 666philb. (and sorry for your woes, wimpy. )

[wimpy]

As I understand it, my problem stems from Intel moving the goalposts with the Pentium4 - something to do with SSE2 and the floating point registers. AMD followed them after my CPU set. Google decided to abandon CPUs before the Pentium 4, and introduced the SSE2 requirement. It appears that palemoon has decided to follow Google and discard the "disable SSE2 flag" on compilation. Just another nail in the coffin for these old PCs!

[OscarTalks]

Version 24.7.2 for Linux is now out.
They are saying this will probably be the last of the 24 series and the next one will be a 25
These are compiled without the auto update I believe.
With this and all the other mozilla based browsers what I now tend to do is put them in a directory structure in /mnt/home with a profile directory in there too so nothing takes up any save file space. The launcher script can specify the HOME and -profile locations in the directories in /mnt/home
The only thing that gets created in /root is an empty directory in /root/.cache/mozilla
Not sure if there is a way to stop this but if not it is not a problem of any significance.

[cimarron]

Palemoon 25 is available for linux, but a number of Firefox add-ons no longer function with this new Palemoon version. For a list of incompatible add-ons (with some workarounds) and the explanation why, see here.

You probably want to check that your add-ons are compatible with the new version before updating beyond 24.7.2.

[charlie6]

Hi,