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I am in puppy 4.31 (zigbert's Stardust 013) and my palemoon 27.4.2 glibc219 tweaked. I am experimenting the first crash of palemoon on a particular italian site:

http://www.mercatoliberonews.com/

Perhaps the site has bad html code but it correctly displays with a chrooted firefox 45.9.0 esr. I report this for Walter Dnes to fix the mainline sse2 palemoon.

EDIT: further trials prove the crashing of the mainline sse2 palemoon 27.4.2 on that site even installed without glibc tweak in modern puppies. There is a segmentation fault. Current firefox correctly displays the site.

watchdog wrote:EDIT: further trials prove the crashing of the mainline sse2 palemoon 27.4.2 on that site even installed without glibc tweak in modern puppies. There is a segmentation fault. Current firefox correctly displays the site.

I'm also doing a "contributed build" for the mainline (SSE2) linux 32-bit "unstable" version. This is the latest code, which will be part of the next version. It'll be posted in the Pale Moon forum thread https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... 2&start=20 The tarball can be found in the ftp directory listing ftp://contrib:get@ftp.palemoon.org/32bi ... ble-Linux/ Try that on a Pentium 4 or higher machine to see if it helps.

I hope to get a new version uploaded today. I'm going away for a vacation on the 18th to the 22nd, so I won't be around to answer questions.

watchdog wrote:I am in puppy 4.31 (zigbert's Stardust 013) and my palemoon 27.4.2 glibc219 tweaked. I am experimenting the first crash of palemoon on a particular italian site:

http://www.mercatoliberonews.com/

Tried this myself in 4.31 on my T42 and it was fine on that site.

Robert123 wrote: http://www.mercatoliberonews.com/

Tried this myself in 4.31 on my T42 and it was fine on that site.

Yes, it is working also for me now. It was out for palemoon for one or a couple of days. Bad html code, I think.

Walter Dnes wrote: I'm also doing a "contributed build" for the mainline (SSE2) linux 32-bit "unstable" version. This is the latest code, which will be part of the next version. It'll be posted in the Pale Moon forum thread https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... 2&start=20 The tarball can be found in the ftp directory listing ftp://contrib:get@ftp.palemoon.org/32bi ... ble-Linux/ Try that on a Pentium 4 or higher machine to see if it helps.

Thanks Walter, I'll try your build. But the problem I reported is now solved: I think bad html code was responsible for making crash palemoon.

@Walter Dnes

Happy news: your build is working in puppy 4.31 with glibc219tweak. New libstdc++.so.6 was needed: I took it from ubuntu xenial xerus 32 bit.

watchdog wrote:@Walter Dnes

Happy news: your build is working in puppy 4.31 with glibc219tweak. New libstdc++.so.6 was needed: I took it from ubuntu xenial xerus 32 bit.

Cool thanks Watchdog thank you we can still use these old pups, because of your hard work.

Hey, all

I am running Stardustpup013glibc2.10, on an old box with a 2001 athlon processor, and was wondering if any of these modern palemoon spins will run on it?

These are the processor specs: This old box also has 640 MB RAM

I tried walter's, palemoon-27.4.2SSE.linux-i686, from the terminal and this is what it reported: "Illegal instruction"

Am I using the incorrect build of p-moon, or it just will not run on this old of a processor?

Thank you for any advice

festus

Hi, festus. Try one of the following 27.4.2 palemoon glibctweaked:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 621#960621

In console:
If sse2 flag is reported use the mainline palemoon. Otherwise use the sse version.

Thanks for the info, watchdog

Here is the report of: I then installed palemoon-27.4.2-p4-sse-glibc219tweak.pet

terminal returned this: To me it looks like this processor will NOT be able to run these versions of palemoon.

Oh well, maybe an older version of firefox will work.

Thanks, again,

festus

Hi Festus,

Does this work?
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107857

Robert123 wrote:Hi Festus,

Does this work?
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107857

Yes, this ffx-27 does work on my old box, and I'm a thanking you for the link.

bliss,
festus

Good thing is 8GEEE is working on it to keep it up to date.

Here is the cpuinfo for the machine I am using with Racy 5.5:

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 350.756
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 mmx fxsr up
bogomips : 701.74
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment: 32
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:

I think this rules out Palemoon, from what I read in this thread and in Palemoon site.
Is there any other option ?

I would be keen to see a separate thread for an SSE version of Palemoon - it's a bit of a struggle to find which post references a suitable version for a PC that lacks SSE2.

As an alternative to a separate thread - could anyone link to a post which offers a version for SSE only CPU?

cheers!

Walter Dnes wrote:For Pentium3-class machines, the SSE-only build is downloadable at URL ftp://contrib:get@ftp.palemoon.org/SSE- ... 86.tar.bz2.

Hi Walter - this link seems dead for me. Is it still correct? cheers

Hi Greengeek,

Seems dead here too.

Go first to

ftp://contrib@ftp.palemoon.org/SSE-Linux/

then click on the .tar.bz2 file. I just did it, downloaded just fine.

greengeek wrote:I would be keen to see a separate thread for an SSE version of Palemoon - it's a bit of a struggle to find which post references a suitable version for a PC that lacks SSE2.

As an alternative to a separate thread - could anyone link to a post which offers a version for SSE only CPU?

cheers!

HI; I do an SSE contributed build for 32-bit linux Pale Moon. See Pale Moon forum thread https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=13530 Note that since this is not the mainstream build, (un)installation has to be done manually from the tarball. What I find easiest is to...

• create a directory in my home dire, e.g. $HOME/pm
  cd $HOME/pm
  Download the current SSE tarball to $HOME/pm/ The current tarball URL is ftp://contrib:get@ftp.palemoon.org/SSE- ... 86.tar.bz2
  killall palemoon (as a precaution)
  rm -rf palemoon This deletes/"uninstalls" the local Pale Moon in directory $HOME/pm/palemoon
  tar -xvjf <tarball_name> This "installs" the local Pale Moon
  The basic launch command is $HOME/pm/palemoon/palemoon (YES!)
  Put that command into whatever menubar/program-launcher/etc you use.

This process installs in the user's home directory, and only the user can use it. If you change $HOME/pm/ to /opt or /usr/local, then all users can use it. I don't expect multiple users on a Pentium3-class machine (i.e. SSE-only)

6502coder wrote:Go first to

ftp://contrib@ftp.palemoon.org/SSE-Linux/

then click on the .tar.bz2 file. I just did it, downloaded just fine.

That's right; the version number is part of the tarball name, so your method works best for handling the constantly changing names. I also update a dedicated thread on the Pale Moon forum as new versions are uploaded https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=13530