Following my success with the Opera 'Blink'-based browser:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117733
.....it was kind of inevitable that I'd be trying it out with some of the others. And what better than my day-to-day browser, in use across the 'kennels'?
SRWare's 'Iron' browser.
I've tried applying the same 'principle' to Chrome, with the addition of creating a 'spot' environment for it to run in, but it steadfastly refuses to play ball. Something in Google's proprietary coding prevents it from running in anything other than 'standard' configuration.... Ah, well; you can't win 'em all. And with the portable-Opera running so incredibly well, I think I'm going to drop Google Chrome altogether.
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Iron, however, responds very well to the same build recipe. The only thing I wasn't sure about was the wrapper-script's 'exec' line....but Fred came to the rescue (again! Bless 'im....)
My thread here:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117130
....from a couple of months back, was more about my musings following personal research. Fred came up with the magic incantation for the 'exec' line that seems to work:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 05#1039505
Not entirely certain where he dug it up from, since I couldn't find any reference to it myself (not for lack of trying, mind you!) - but it's the one single thing that's made these 'portables' possible, building on what I've used in the Opera-portable package.
There's 64- & 32-bit versions of the current release, Iron 78, available. However, try as I might, I cannot get the WideVine DRM stuff functional. There's no information forthcoming, either; nobody on the Iron forums seems to know anything about it (or else they're remaining tight-lipped). And the developer team are being no help at all. Usually, this would be a 'deal-breaker' for me, but I'm rather fond of Iron, since it's like a 'poor-man's' Chrome, without the extra fussiness; it'll happily run-as-root, like it's doing here.
So, for anybody who wants to watch NetFlix, Hulu, Spotify, etc., I've also put together 64- & 32-bit versions of the last release which supported DRM without any hassle.....v.69. It's not that old; it's new enough to have the present re-vamped Chromium interface, for instance.
As usual, d/l; unzip the tarball.....the 'portable' build is inside. Click on it, followed by clicking the 'LAUNCH' script. It's that simple.
PepperFlash updating is a simple case of clicking on the 'Update' script beside the launcher.
(First run always takes a bit longer than usual, because it's creating, and populating, the 'Profile' directory.)
Downloads as follows:-
32-bit v69 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vOCY-F ... sp=sharing
MD5 - b1625db68ee0ffa242cebe742ea0c160
Sha256 - eeece238eb4e0dc23501c52d10645203bb550ee6217dffa05b6f69dbb7592fd1
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64-bit v69 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Q0AI3 ... sp=sharing
MD5 - c286194fdec472b742869bd11b54d84c
Sha256 - e19bc1896fbc3350a72a2254f49c9ec2e67846e6a977ebdb084e447f650c4308
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32-bit v78 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tw_cki ... sp=sharing
MD5 - 75b1997019fbbdc023ac7bbeb557ed94
Sha256 - ce7d7cdee74ee0a09c7f66401ab97f0cf5a27c2f9cca8a344ecd119749e323df
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64-bit v78 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-4Vd5r ... sp=sharing
MD5 - fe985a799aac285e141175a2736aee66
Sha256 - 5a4f9637908de64595daccfd09ae959f9835a11b5f882a46c14915fde2bbf580
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Any earlier than Tahrpup for the 32-bit builds, they'll complain. You have been warned.....
Help yourselves to whichever you want. Feedback will be welcome, as always.
Enjoy.
Mike.
. Someone has changed the spelling of the Profile name from 'Profile' to "PROFILE" going from 78 to 81. (screenshots not)
. Opened up my last data partition backup to extract the original 'Profile' and now carefully repeat the copying and linking with the correct spellings 
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. I'll see if Iron78 is the same (maybe a Slacko thing?).