(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

1.1.23 out, will try with mageia puppy as I have been looking for a single default replacement browser and this one looks interesting

wow! Very Impressed, the things this can do are great!

And the win$ and puppy versions actually handle the same to the user.

If Eyes-Only says it's good then I must try it
Seems like some Slimboat developers found this thread so I guess it will be good if they keep it compatible with puppy from early versions.
With all these mainstream browsers going heavy on size and resources we pupians always like to find something like this as long as it has enough functionality and compatibility with current web standards, that's why I still use seamonkey but I'll test this ASAP.
Too bad it's not GPL/open source.

Dejan555 wrote:"If Eyes-Only says it's good then I must try it."

LOL Dejan! What makes ME such an authority all of a sudden?

Just for the record here I haven't done any "official" browser work in literally years my friend. Since retiring I now just play around with them all - and I now prefer this state far better over the former. This way I don't feel guilty if I want to use another browser other than something based solely upon Gecko.

Thanks for that vote of confidence just the same though my friend!

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

I know what you mean

OK, sooo... I tried this on my puppy, it does seem fast, flash won't work for me though I tried to copy libflashplayer.so from seamonkey plugins dir to slimboat/plugins; slimboat/libs; slimboat/plugins/codecs; and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins - is that where it's usually located in lucid/precise since I understand it works out of the box there?

Also I noticed tab names and toolbar buttons don't always update according to current page.

EDIT: Oh yeah this is on dpup485, I installed generic linux 32bit package and added gstreamer libs from squeeze repo

Version 1.1.24 is out.
The gstreamer libs package on the downloads page is just an empty file at the moment. Maybe they are updating that.

Anyway I downloaded the Debian Wheezy gstreamer libs and included them and have packaged SlimBoat as a .PET which seems to work in Dpup Wheezy. Haven't tried other Puppies yet (though I know it won't work in Racy).

Flash Player is working (in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins).

With datafilehost you want the smaller "download" button.
The larger "download now" thing is an ad.

SlimBoat 1.1.24 Wheezy .pet
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Nicely done, OscarTalks. Installed your pet, using Slimboat as I type, on Precise 5.4.3. I was looking for a lightweight alternative to Seamonkey as I'm running on only 256MB of ram.

Youtube works but with frequent stuttering of both video and audio. Using Htop to check the usage shows regular spikes to 100%.

However, using Seamonkey to view the same video yielded a smoother experience, with only occasional lags in video, none for audio.

Strangely when using SlimBoat, the Murga Linux forum is displayed in rather small font size but when I click on a thread, individual posts have the usual (acceptable) font size.

Hello zenn,

Thanks for testing and reporting. Tried a few YouTube videos here in Wheezy and seems all OK. If RAM is low I hope you have some swap. I think fonts can be changed in preferences but it is a new browser for me so only just started looking myself.

Anyway I have made another version using the official Ubuntu Precise gstreamer libs so this one may work better in Precise Puppy.

With datafilehost use the smaller "download" button.
The larger "download now" thing is an ad.

SlimBoat 1.1.24 Precise .pet
download = FILE REMOVED
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I'm using UpUp Precise and Slimboat certainly lightened the load a little. Works very good except not so good with Youtube streaming video. One other comment, the Google Search link uses a customized Google Search and not the direct Google.com. Not an issue if you don't use it but it worries me that there may be some other monitoring going on behind the scenes.

That said... I like it. Nice, lightweight, clean and almost as fast as Dillo. THIS IS DEFINITELY WORTH A LOOK AS A DEFAULT BROWSER FOR DISTRO MAKERS!

It looks like they have fixed the gstreamer libs download link now. It now points to a xz package of about 400KB.

OscarTalks wrote:Version 1.1.24 is out.
The gstreamer libs package on the downloads page is just an empty file at the moment. Maybe they are updating that.

Anyway I downloaded the Debian Wheezy gstreamer libs and included them and have packaged SlimBoat as a .PET which seems to work in Dpup Wheezy. Haven't tried other Puppies yet (though I know it won't work in Racy).

Flash Player is working (in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins).

With datafilehost you want the smaller "download" button.
The larger "download now" thing is an ad.

SlimBoat 1.1.24 Wheezy .pet
download = http://www.datafilehost.com/download-f6fe5296.html
md5sum = 826e8bd7325e5583fb79cd22ef91c2b5

I believe the developers use the customized version to Google to earn a little cash for themselves to get things going. I believe you are tracked to some degree via cookies even with the vanila Google.com. Google changes search result ranking orders based on your past search history nowadays.

With that said, you can easily create a search engine pointing to the original google.com. First, go to google.com and position the caret inside the search box on the page. Then click the drop down arrow on the right side of icon on the left side of the search box to get a menu showing the list of engines. From the menu, select "Create your own search engine" to build your own google.com search engine. After it's created, you can set it as default from the same menu.

slavvo67 wrote:I'm using UpUp Precise and Slimboat certainly lightened the load a little. Works very good except not so good with Youtube streaming video. One other comment, the Google Search link uses a customized Google Search and not the direct Google.com. Not an issue if you don't use it but it worries me that there may be some other monitoring going on behind the scenes.

That said... I like it. Nice, lightweight, clean and almost as fast as Dillo. THIS IS DEFINITELY WORTH A LOOK AS A DEFAULT BROWSER FOR DISTRO MAKERS!

Here is version 1.1.28 as .PET and .SFS packages
Released 04th April 2013
http://www.slimboat.com

This won't work in Wary/Racy as the libs are too old.
In Slacko, Flash Player doesn't work. Anyone figure out why?

It all seems to work OK in Wheezy, Precise and Exprimo but is posted here just for people to try it out.

If you go to download these, make sure you use the correct "download" button on the datafilehost page.

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Both arrived fine, thanks!

Will see about testing tomorrow ...

"Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise!"

Version 1.1.29 as .SFS and .PET packages
Released 22nd April 2013

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Thanks for these updates OscarTalks as I, for one, really do enjoy using SlimBoat. Of all the Qt-based web browsers out there this has become my most-favourite of all to use!

Two thumbs up and a "Keep up the great work!" my fellow Puppian Friend. We sure do appreciate it, those of us who are unable to do so...

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"

Version 1.1.33 as .SFS and .PET packages
Released 04 June 2013
http://www.slimboat.com

This post was edited on 07 June 2013
Packages upgraded from 1.1.32 to 1.1.33

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Slimboat really is a nice and fast browser.
It does everything a browser should do and speedily. I like it more and more.

Slimboat imported my crazy (giant) list of Firefox bookmarks flawlessly, where Opera missed part of them.

A few questions:

* Is it open source?

* Does anyone know how to change the 'skin'? I don't like the windows95-ish grey-brown and downloaded a fresher skin, but could not find a way to install it.
Theonline help leads to a non existing page 'skins usage and design'

Thank you OscarTalks!

hi bert

slimboat browser is QT based and the colours and fonts can be changed using qtconfig, type qtconfig into a terminal

Hi 666philb,

I have used your qtconfig tip.

My regards and thanks

Version 1.1.35 as .SFS and .PET packages
Released 04 July 2013
http://www.slimboat.com

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