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Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 21:23
by smokey01
MU wrote:
Smokey,
the configfile for the embedded bookmarks is:
/root/.EmbeddedBookmarks/channels2.txt
The bookmarks of Puppybrowser itself are:
/root/.PuppyBrowser/bookmarks.rc
I can't promise, when I find time to enhance the normal bookmarks to support categories, too.
Mark I deleted the embedded link and all is working again.
Thanks
Posted: Thu 18 Jun 2009, 07:14
by capoverde
(posted with Puppybrowser 0.5 on Puppy 4.21)
Browsed around with Puppybrowser 0.5 on Ppup476 tonight; it hung twice after playing some Youtube videos, say 5 or 6, but restarted normally after killing it.
Seem to remember this did happen with some older SeaMonkey version, can't say which; or maybe it still happens now? I rarely watch several Youtube vids, must try out.
Also: the default setting for password saving is "Yes", but IMHO "No" would be safer.
It's already my favorite browser anyway.
Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2009, 13:14
by kilon
puppy-browser does not start , it complaints that it needs "libgee.so.0"
any idea how to install this library ?
Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2009, 13:32
by MU
A libgee pet is attached to the message, where you can download the browser.
Mark
Posted: Fri 19 Jun 2009, 13:57
by kilon
MU wrote:A libgee pet is attached to the message, where you can download the browser.
Mark
works like a charm. I forgot to download it , stupid me....lol
thanks
Posted: Thu 24 Sep 2009, 10:21
by Michalis
I just run puppy browser the default install in 430-small and It has some bugs, 2 actually. First of all I used it in order to write an e-mail at hotmail.
The e-mail I wrote was in Greek and I had problems whenever I wanted to type an accent character. To explain it exactly in order to accent a letter in Greek I have to use the button next to "L" which in english gives the semistop ";" or ":". Whenever I was pressing it the cursor was just disappearing and had to tick with the mouse in the text box every time.
Second bug I found was that Greek letter "Σ" was looking as "Z". Both of them are in the alphabet but they are different. The strange is that the small "Σ" was looking as it suppose to be "σ". Also when pasting the text to geany "Σ" was looking perfect. So the encoding was correct but the look was wrong
If you want any more details or anything to test tell me.
Posted: Thu 24 Sep 2009, 11:37
by DaveS
Mark, do you think it might be possible to get Simple Mail to work? That would then be moving toward a very lightweight browser/mail app.
Posted: Thu 24 Sep 2009, 12:18
by ttuuxxx
DaveS wrote:Mark, do you think it might be possible to get Simple Mail to work? That would then be moving toward a very lightweight browser/mail app.
Dave its a frontend like skipstone, you still need a working backend like seamonkey, and its not compatible with FF3 series or webkit yet, But hopefully in the future
So adding simplemail wouldn't save that much space over seamonkey mail.
ttuuxxx
Posted: Thu 24 Sep 2009, 14:12
by Flash
I just discovered this browser in 4.3 final and watched quite a few youtube videos without any problem, unlike SeaMonkey, which closes sometimes apparently because Flash gets overloaded.
Is there any way to import bookmarks from SeaMonkey?
Posted: Thu 24 Sep 2009, 19:31
by MU
Flash wrote:I just discovered this browser in 4.3 final and watched quite a few youtube videos without any problem, unlike SeaMonkey, which closes sometimes apparently because Flash gets overloaded.
Is there any way to import bookmarks from SeaMonkey?
you can use this script, but might have to set the path to your seamonkey bookmarks first.
Code: Select all
#!/bin/bash
######################################################
### convert seamonkey bookmarks for PuppyBrowser
######################################################
### enter here the path to your seamonkey bookmarks!
sb=/root/.mozilla/default/r3y1skkw.slt/bookmarks.html
#######################################################
outfile=/root/.PuppyBrowser/profiles/default/bookmarks.rc$$
touch $outfile
cat "$sb" | grep 'HREF=' |while read a;do
b=`echo $a |sed -e "s#</A>##" -e "s#.*>##" -e "s/|/-/g"`
c=`echo $a |sed -e "s#.*HREF="##" -e "s#".*##"`
echo "$b|$c" >>$outfile
done
echo -----------------------------
echo created: $outfile
echo
echo Please rename it or add the contents to:
echo /root/.PuppyBrowser/profiles/default/bookmarks.rc
Save it as "/root/seamonkey2PB".
Then make it executable by typing:
chmod 755 /root/seamonkey2PB
Then run it by typing:
/root/seamonkey2PB
Mark
Posted: Thu 24 Sep 2009, 19:38
by MU
DaveS wrote:Mark, do you think it might be possible to get Simple Mail to work? That would then be moving toward a very lightweight browser/mail app.
No, PuppyBrowser is a simple pure Gtk Application.
Simple Mail is a Firefox addon using the special firefox framework (XUL I think).
It is not possible to use extensions in PuppyBrowser, that's the price for the reduced, small backend.
Mark
Posted: Thu 24 Sep 2009, 19:50
by MU
Michalis wrote:If you want any more details or anything to test tell me.
thanks for your report!
PuppyBrowser is using a profile called "MU" from Seamonkey for the default settings.
You may test this, please:
run seamonkey.
When it starts, it should show the selection of a profile, "default" and "MU".
Choose "MU".
Then try if you can reproduce the errors there.
If yes, try to change language or font settings.
If that fixes your issue, exit and start PuppyBrowser.
Maybe it works correctly now.
Mark
Posted: Fri 25 Sep 2009, 03:31
by Flash
Mark,
Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> Tools -> Export bookmarks creates an html file. Rather than trying to use the bookmarks in /root/.mozilla/ and so forth, it seems to me that it would be simpler to use that file. Also, I believe other browsers create the same sort of file to use for backing up and importing/exporting their bookmarks, so it would be a more general solution.
Posted: Fri 25 Sep 2009, 09:22
by Michalis
MU wrote:run seamonkey.
When it starts, it should show the selection of a profile, "default" and "MU".
Choose "MU".
It doesn't ask me anything. Also I went to: tools --> Switch Profile, and has only the deafault one, no MU.
I'm using seamonkey and puppy browser which come with 430 small. I'll try to find the MU profile in the system and copy it to the profile folder of seamonkey and report back.
Posted: Fri 25 Sep 2009, 14:07
by MU
Michalis wrote:MU wrote:run seamonkey.
When it starts, it should show the selection of a profile, "default" and "MU".
Choose "MU".
It doesn't ask me anything. Also I went to: tools --> Switch Profile, and has only the deafault one, no MU.
I'm using seamonkey and puppy browser which come with 430 small. I'll try to find the MU profile in the system and copy it to the profile folder of seamonkey and report back.
So maybe it was left out, when Barry repackaged it for Puppy 4.3.
I must check this in detail later.
You could start seamonkey, and then create a new profile "MU".
Tools - switch profile - manage profiles - create profile.
I had used this e.g. to modify the
preferences - appearance - fonts.
There I had replaced all fonts with "Deja vu Sans", so instead of serife fonts you see sans-serif, what I prefer on a monitor.
Modifying the font settings you quickly can verify, that PuppyBrowser really is using that profile from seamonkey.
Mark
Posted: Sat 26 Sep 2009, 13:21
by Michalis
I made the MU profile. Now seamonkey asks me, when I open it, which profile I want. I symlinked the folder MU to /root/.puppybrowser/ .All the fonts in the MU profile are Dejavu Sans.
I think that don't bother at all, must be stupidity of hotmail (is it strange since it belong to microsoft?). I didn't notice such behavior in other forums and yahoo that I tested.
Any way just for the record, the problem with the accents is happening also in seamonkey with both profiles and is selecting the same letters accented in translated to greek words of the page. I mean words like: mail, reply, index and others. Of course strange behavior but is other problem of hotmail (most likely) or seamonkeys' library.
The other problem with the capital letter "Σ" looking as "Ζ" is happening only in puppybrowser and only in hotmail. My opinion is don't bother fixing it, except if you have more reports about it.
Posted: Sat 26 Sep 2009, 23:28
by MU
ok Michalis, thanks for checking it.
I will not be able to fix this.
Puppybrowser is a grafical interface built around the seamonkey code to display websites (using "gtkmozembed" to include it).
So that code is like a "black box", I can include it, but I cannot modify it.
A solution might be, to use instead one of the alternative gecko-engines.
On the first page with the downloads I added a link to "xulrunner". This is a different implementation of that code, maybe it does not have those issues.
I will not check this on my own, as the way this code is included (using gtkmozembed) is outdated, and Seamonkey 2 no longer supports it.
So instead it might be better, to focus on the webkit engine (from KDEs Konqueror/Apples Safari) instead.
But at moment, I have no time for this.
Also it would mean, that Puppybrowser will no longer be part of Puppy, because webkit is pretty huge.
So I am not certain at all, if there is a future for Puppybrowser.
On the other hand, Seamonkey 2 seems to have an improved performance, and so might make lightweight-solutions like Puppybrowser obsolete.
see first test results:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46952
Mark
Posted: Sat 03 Oct 2009, 17:45
by ttuuxxx
Hi mark I came across a small wysiwyg program that uses firefox or mozilla, ie. its not a plugin so it probably would work on seamonkey and your browser. The thing is that I think it was made on widows, when you load it up, it starts but there's a small error, when you look at the error its basically looking for C drive. It does look somewhat simple to fix and would be a great addon, because it does do css and html. The best part its only 400kb so the size is great. here's a link if you would like to look into it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pweditor/
ttuuxxx
Posted: Tue 25 May 2010, 22:12
by zenfunk
Found an ultratiny htmlviewer script (1.2 kB):
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/24 ... er-script/ It uses webkit and python- so not so tiny in he end, but if you have them installed anyways then the size of his script is unbetable.
Original site here:
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/python- ... 20-minutes
HTH, Christian
Posted: Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:24
by Argolance
Hello,
I am trying to find a very basic/simple html reader/viewer
(without any tool or search bar, even previous and next buttons) to let user display program help files
(for example). I tried all what is possible to try following links of this thread... but didn't succeed in making anything work properly: Something is always missing or defective
The 1.2Kb python browser script mentioned by zenfunk seems to be very interesting but I don't know exactly how to install/make it work.
Could someone give me some help?
(Puppy Racy 5.3)
Cordialement!