Murga needs a Firefox Quantam and above .sfs or .pet

[belham2]

I posted the following in Phil's thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 978#975978


Is there any body with more expertise than me that is able to put something together, in one simple .sfs and/or .pet, where people can easily load and try the latest Firefox Quantum & above, and have sound working across every website? Right now it is a pain, with the current fixes existing.

In essence, the current situation of fixes and hacks (by Oscar, Watchdog, Rsrcn51, etc, etc) is simply not sustainable. Other people I have running pups (and ddogs) want to try the new Firefox, but getting to them and going thru the hoops to just get the dam# sound working is unreal.

Is there not a complete .sfs and/or .pet solution for Firefox (with everything needed, pulseaudio/apulse included) available?? One 32bit and one 64bit for the Ubuntu/Xenails/Artful/etc pups, and one 32bit and 64bit for the Slacko & slacko-based derivatives??


Thanks.

[Sailor Enceladus]

I can try to compile FF57 in Slacko 6.9.9.9 with --enable-alsa and --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2, that is how the Slackware team worked around needing pulse and gtk3 in FF52esr: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 520#949520

It will take about 5 hours to compile on my laptop though and will probably become obsolete soon when newer FF versions come out. Might be interesting to see if those two parameters still work for 57 (and if it even compiles without any tricks).

[belham2]

I can try to compile FF57 in Slacko 6.9.9.9 with --enable-alsa and --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2, that is how the Slackware team worked around needing pulse and gtk3 in FF52esr: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 520#949520

It will take about 5 hours to compile on my laptop though and will probably become obsolete soon when newer FF versions come out. Might be interesting to see if those two parameters still work for 57 (and if it even compiles without any tricks).

Hi Sailor,

I'll be your first tester. And I think, on Murga here, there will probably be more

[Sailor Enceladus]

Thanks belham2. It looks like the gtk2 option is now deprecated in FF57. Also it apparently needs Rust Compiler now and LLVM needs the full version with clang (unless I missed how to make it use gcc) which needs to be updated to 3.9+ for stylo... hmm

[musher0]

Hello all.

Nobody needs an sfs or a pet for firefox. Creating either is a waste of time, IMO.

You just need enough room in /mnt/home, enough room in /root for the personal
.mozilla directory (in other words, your pupsave or pupfolder), and this set of
one-liners.

This is for the new Firefox 57, 32-bits.

Open a console and type the following one line at a time:

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cd /mnt/home

wget https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/57.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-57.0.1.tar.bz2

# when the download above is finished, type:
bunzip2 -dvk firefox-57.0.1.tar.bz2 

# when the bz2 archive is unpacked, type:
tar -xf firefox-57.0.1.tar

cd firefox # Here you enter the newly created /mnt/home/firefox dir.

ln -s -r firefox /usr/bin # this line creates a symlink for firefox in /usr/bin.

firefox # this runs the beast.

If you want a menu entry, type, again in console:

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echo -e "[Desktop Entry]\nType=Application\nName=Firefox 57\nIcon=/initrd/mnt/dev_save/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png\nExec=firefox\nTerminal=false\nCategories=X-Internet-browser" > /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

and recycle your WM.

Best regards.

[musher0]

As to the no-sound problem, you can try the various solutions that were suggested.
E.g.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... ost#969259
or
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ost#965839,
etc.

[Mike Walsh]

Hi musher0/belham2.

@musher0:-

You know, and I know, that your instructions don't take much 'carrying-out'.....but don't forget, for many of our members, who are Windows 'refugees', even that's a wee bit too much for them to follow. They'd prefer an all-in-one 'package', requiring merely a single click to install.

@belham2:-

It's a nice idea.....but I rather suspect that including both Oscar's and Bill's packages would introduce conflicts of one sort or another. I've found, from my own experience over the last couple of weeks, that Bill's workaround works better for 'buntu-based Puppies, whereas Oscar's definitely works better in Slackware-based Pups.

I can't quite see how it would be possible to choose between the two options, depending on the Pup involved, unless two distinct packages are produced.

Just my tupp'ence-worth.


Mike.

[battleshooter]

That's not difficult Belham, I can put together the Firefox I have in Xenialpup64 and upload it if needed. All that's needed to run in XenialPup is just oscar's apulse and the custom user.js file. I'll post a link to the sfs once it's uploaded.

firefox-58.0b8.pet 64mb

[musher0]

@Mike_Walsh

Well, if you really think that we old-timers should encourage laziness in WhineDose
refugees, I won't quarrel with you!!! Here is something that partially does that.

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#!/bin/sh
# /opt/local/bin/FF-57Q-install-and-1st-launch.sh
# or
# /root/my-applications/bin/FF-57Q-install-and-1st-launch.sh
#
# Firefox-57 (aka "Quantum") installer and first launch for recent PuppyLinuxes.
#
# by musher0, Dec. 3 2017
####
cd /mnt/home
# Two checks for enough room.
[ "`df /mnt/home | awk '$1 ~ /dev/ && $4 < 160000 '`" ] && echo -e "\nYou do not have enough room on /mnt/home to install FF-57." && exit

[ "`df /root | awk '$1 ~ /union/ && $4 < 32000 '`" ] && echo -e "\nYou do not have enough room in the /root folder to install FF-57.\nPlease enlarge your pupsave file by at least 32 mg's." && exit

if [ ! -f /mnt/home/firefox-57.0.1.tar.bz2 ];then
# if you already have it, this is skipped.
	wget https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/57.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-57.0.1.tar.bz2

# when the download above is finished:
	bunzip2 -dvk firefox-57.0.1.tar.bz2

# when the bz2 archive is unpacked:
	tar -xf firefox-57.0.1.tar
fi

[ -d /mnt/home/firefox ] && cd firefox || exit # Another check.
# Here you enter the (newly) created /mnt/home/firefox dir.

[ ! -f /usr/bin/firefox ] && ln -s -r firefox /usr/bin
# this line creates a symlink for firefox in /usr/bin, if not already created.

# Menu entry created if not there:
[ ! -f /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ] && echo -e "[Desktop Entry]\nType=Application\nName=Firefox 57\nIcon=/initrd/mnt/dev_save/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png\nExec=firefox\nTerminal=false\nCategories=X-Internet-browser" > /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

firefox # This runs the animal.

As it turns out, if all the conditions in the script are satisfied, the above becomes
only a FF launcher.

Do not enjoy, do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

BFN.

[redandwhitestripes]

I tried all the workarounds in my Tahr64 and Tahr 32 , they simply didn't work for me

[belham2]

That's not difficult Belham, I can put together the Firefox I have in Xenialpup64 and upload it if needed. All that's needed to run in XenialPup is just oscar's apulse and the custom user.js file. I'll post a link to the sfs once it's uploaded.

firefox-58.0b8.pet 64mb

Hi Battleshooter,

Does this .pet (listed above) have oscar's apulse and the custom user.js file? I just downloaded it, mounted it to look inside, but am not sure. In the .pet, are the 3 libs---libpulsecommon-5.0.so, libpulse-simple.so.0 and libpulse.so.0-----in /usr/lib64. These are for the apulse fix, or rather what comprises Oscar's apulse fix? Yes?

And below is the user.js fix (that's in /usr/root/.mozilla/firefox/######.default/user.js):

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// for using apulse with latest firefox
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.syscall_whitelist", "16");
user_pref("security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist", "/dev/snd/");

Just trying to be certain.

I've got some friends who are Window refugees and who are not so close to that I can just pop over to their homes & fix everything up for them. They went and tried the FF57, lost sound, and have been hitting me up for a fix these past 48 hrs.

One of them is on Slacko64-6.9.9.9, but two of them are on Ubuntu-based recent pups (one Peebee's Artful, 32bit, he's out of luck) and the other Phil's previous Xenial64-bit. So I am going to tell the Xenial64 user to either download your .pet above, install it (of course after completely removing the exsiting FF57 they installed), or, instead, tell him to do the modifications above, assuming I understand them correctly, by downloading your .pet and pulling out & installing the mods I highlight. Just want to make super sure I am understanding/identifying things correctly.

Thanks again.

[8Geee]

Quantum (FF57+) also is displaying an aggressive behavior to make g00gle the default search-engine. I was warned today when using my default search-engine ixquick.com (AKA startpage). There is the warning and a fixit link. I don't know how long it will last.

Regards
8Geee

[battleshooter]

These are for the apulse fix, or rather what comprises Oscar's apulse fix?

And below is the user.js fix (that's in /usr/root/.mozilla/firefox/######.default/user.js)

Yes and yes, Firefox will work with sound out of the box with this pet in regular Xenialpup.

It probably won't work on Slacko though due to the different file structure

[slavvo67]

Battleshooter:

Thanks for this. Confirmed it runs "with sound" on RU Xerus, so should work on Quirky Xerus (64bit) as well.

I gave up on FFOX until this one. THANKS!

Slavvo67

PS - One note; it did force itself as my default browser, which was Seamonkey. Not world ending but just a note.