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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Thu 24 Jul 2014, 18:33 Post subject:
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@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
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Semme

Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8427 Location: World_Hub
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Posted: Thu 24 Jul 2014, 19:14 Post subject:
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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.
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Thu 24 Jul 2014, 23:05 Post subject:
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In the prior post Semme wrote: | For testing, you ... | Wondering; if using the existing profile as a base, does this accomplish all what you suggest. The icon on the desktop and the menu item are already there.
I thought this was what you were getting at: A simple means of upgrading the current Palemoon browser in the absence of a Palemoon built-in feature (like the ones built into Mozilla's Seamonkey and Firefox).
Did I miss?
Edit: I think I see what you are sharing in your prior post. It assumes that there may be something afoul in a newer version of Palemoon. Therefore, if I get what you are saying; "Don't upgrade, test it first, ..."
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Semme

Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8427 Location: World_Hub
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Posted: Fri 25 Jul 2014, 05:42 Post subject:
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Don't over-think it >> http://www.palemoon.org/faq.shtml#How_do_I_update_Pale_Moon
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Fri 25 Jul 2014, 16:35 Post subject:
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Yeah, I saw that earlier. This, from that site, is what prompted my approach: Pale Moon site wrote: | To update Pale Moon manually, simply download the installer of the new version and run it. No need to uninstall first! You can install the new version in the same location as the old one, and it will perform an upgrade | This is why I adapted the replacement approach.
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wimpy

Joined: 22 Aug 2012 Posts: 409 Location: Essex, UK
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Posted: Sat 30 Aug 2014, 08:55 Post subject:
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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.
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666philb

Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3635 Location: wales ... by the sea
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Posted: Sat 30 Aug 2014, 17:24 Post subject:
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hi wimpy,
what puppy are you using?
there's a new pet on the first post version 24.7.1
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wimpy

Joined: 22 Aug 2012 Posts: 409 Location: Essex, UK
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Posted: Sun 31 Aug 2014, 03:22 Post subject:
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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.
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666philb

Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3635 Location: wales ... by the sea
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Posted: Mon 01 Sep 2014, 10:30 Post subject:
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hi wimpy,
did you try the new pet? (on first post) it should work in precise
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wimpy

Joined: 22 Aug 2012 Posts: 409 Location: Essex, UK
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Posted: Mon 01 Sep 2014, 14:44 Post subject:
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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.
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Puppus Dogfellow

Joined: 07 Jan 2013 Posts: 1669 Location: nyc
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Posted: Tue 02 Sep 2014, 13:38 Post subject:
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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. )
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wimpy

Joined: 22 Aug 2012 Posts: 409 Location: Essex, UK
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Posted: Wed 03 Sep 2014, 01:53 Post subject:
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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!
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OscarTalks

Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 2202 Location: London, England
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Posted: Sun 14 Sep 2014, 09:38 Post subject:
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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.
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cimarron

Joined: 30 May 2013 Posts: 293
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Posted: Sat 25 Oct 2014, 16:09 Post subject:
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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.
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charlie6

Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 1231 Location: Saint-Gérard / Walloon part of Belgium
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Posted: Sun 26 Oct 2014, 02:41 Post subject:
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Hi,
Quote: | ...but a number of Firefox add-ons no longer function with this new Palemoon version...a list of incompatible add-ons... |
thanks cimarron !
The SimpleMail mail client add-on might also be merged to that list: i could not get the SimpleMail icon displayed somewhere on the windows bars; I could not find any "modules bar" (as also on latest Firefox, but Firefox displays the SimpleMail icon automatically ...).
In Palemoon: SimpleMail although seems can be started manualy from the Tools/Add-on/
Cheers, Charlie
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