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[fredx181]

EDIT 2019-04-13 Instead of updating everytime, I made simple script that will create the portable Firefox, including the apulse libs
Updated 2019-05-31 http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1025219#1025219
EDIT 2019-08-04, see here for Firefox-ESR portable (install script) http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1033657#1033657

Firefox Quantum portable with apulse included, the settings for it, to make audio work (in about:config), are preconfigured (EDIT not anymore required for 60.0.1)
Extract to someplace and (inside extracted folder) run the "ff" script
To update (if available), go to Help > About
Thanks to OscarTalks for providing apulse !
EDIT: The personal profile will be inside "profile" folder
EDIT 2019-02-16 From Mike Walsh: Portable Firefox ESR v60.5.1 , see:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1018511#1018511

EDIT2: Changed to version 58.0, (settings for apulse fixed) download links replaced.
EDIT 2018-01-31:Changed to version 58.0.1 download links replaced.
EDIT 2018-02-08:Changed to version 58.0.2 download links replaced.
EDIT 2018-02-19:See here info and a gtk3 sfs for running on systems without having gtk3 installed, e,g, x-slacko:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=983400#983400
EDIT 2018-04-26, See here for a precise gtk3 pet package from Mike Walsh:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=989764#989764
EDIT 2018-04-29 Version 59.02 now, download links below updated.
EDIT 2018-05-17 Updated to version 60.0.1
Mike Walsh provided a pet for a menu entry:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/w5525xfpu0j33sw/FF_Quantum-MenuEntry.pet
Required for this is that the firefox32 (or firefox64) folder is in /opt (so the path is e.g: /opt/firefox32/).
EDIT: Re-uploaded without any special "sandbox.security" pre-configuration included (not needed anymore), see also EDIT Here
EDIT 2018-11-19 Updated to version 63.0.3, replaced download links below.
Bug fix, sound didn't work without apulse installed (at least for me), see more here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1010621#1010621
EDIT 2018-12-14 Updated to version 64.0, added libatomic1 to extra libs (required for v64.0)
EDIT 2018-12-17 One issue can be a crash (e.g. when importing a bookmark) then it's because of missing "/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser.gschema.xml", then you get the error something like:

[dancytron]

I remastered this into the new Debian Stretch CE puppy.

Works great.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=978391#978391

[frenchiveruti]

Thanks a lot fred, I'll try it out.

[dancytron]

I am not using this, I made my own before Fred came out with this, but I upgraded to Firefox 58 last night and it broke the sound. A little bit of googling seems to indicate they've tightened up the sandbox security a little more.

Going to about:config and changing security.sandbox.content.level from 3 to 0 made the sound work again, but I am under the impression that turns off a lot of security stuff. I am sure there is a better setting to use that will allow the sound and leave more of the sandbox security in place that rcrsn51 and fred will figure out.

I'll cross post this in the Debian Stretch thread to rcrsn51 will see it.

[OscarTalks]

Reply posted in the other thread:-
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111199&start=969

[fredx181]

Changed to version 58.0, settings for apulse fixed, thanks OscarTalks
Download links replaced, see first post.

Fred

[peebee]

Thanks indeed to @OscarTalks....

For info: the magic number for LxPupSc and ArtfulPup is 54.....

sfs

[fredx181]

Previously made mistake with the 32bit version, it still was version 57.0 (and should have been 58.0)

Fixed now and upgraded to latest v58.0.1, see download links in first post.

Fred

[Mike Walsh]

[fredx181]

Updated to latest version 58.0.2, see first post for download.
The 32-bit included apulse settings changed to :

[kuman11]

I'm trying to run ff32 on X-Slacko Slim 4.4.r9. Got that:

/mnt/sda1/firefox32/ff
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /mnt/sda1/firefox32/libmozgtk.so:
libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

[dancytron]

[s243a]

This works on tahrpup but I get this error:

[mikeslr]

Hi All,

If I've tracked it down correctly, X-Slacko-slim 4.4r9 is compatible with "upstream 14.1", http://blog.puppylinux.com/?viewDetailed=00028. And as kuman11's running the 32 bit version, this is probably the package needed: https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.1/slackware-i486/gtk+3-3.8.2-i486-2.txz.html.

But it gets a little more complicated. Kuman11 runs a "remaster" without a SaveFile/Folder and prefers to continue with that system. Although one possibility would be to temporarily create a SaveFile and remaster, I was wondering if there wasn't another solution.

In order not to conflict with "builtin" applications, Watchdog's palemoon includes the glibc libraries. I think, similarly, fredx181 solves the apulse problem by including the necessary libraries. The code in "ff" is:

#!/bin/sh
LAUNCHDIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; pwd)"
mkdir "$LAUNCHDIR/profile" 2> /dev/null
"$LAUNCHDIR/apulse" "$LAUNCHDIR/firefox" "$@" -profile "$LAUNCHDIR/profile"

The reference to apulse above is (I think) to the bash-script named apulse which reads:

#!/bin/sh

APULSEPATH="/usr/lib/apulse"

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$APULSEPATH${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH} exec "$@"

Firefox's folder, itself, contains several libpulse-related libraries, and symbolic links (as necessary) to those. I also noticed gtk2 folder containing libmozgtk.so.

That's about as far as my understanding goes, As they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But I wondered if a similar method was possible for incorporating gtk-3 libraries necessary on kuman11's system.

I've raised this otherwise academic problem because both Mozilla and Google keep 'uping the ante' making it difficult for older systems to run web-browsers required by "modern" webpages. Fredx181's approach of employing everything within a self-contained "portable" folder is, IMHO, the best technique for overcoming that obstacle. An understanding of how to build on that method may come in handy.

But, perhaps it would be best to start a thread in the Programming Section to reply.

@ s243a: I get the same error in joomlapup=tahrpup 6.0.5. But despite it's assertion of "critical", this version of firefox runs, seemingly without problems. [Thought I'd see what joomla was all about]. Will boot into Tahrpup 6.0.6 with 4.1.30 kernel in a couple of minutes. Not having run it from the terminal I might never have known of the error.

Yep. 6.0.6 with 4.1.30 kernel also shows the error. As I hadn't gotten around to deleting the firefox 57 folder, started that version via the terminal as well. Reports the same "error".

mikesLr

[fredx181]

Installing gtk3 from PPM makes it work for me on X-slacko slim, package name: gtk+3-3.8.2

@mikeslr,