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Posted: **Sat 25 Dec 2010, 19:01**

Hi puppy fans I did not post any new Google-chrome pet for awhile it seamed like everybody was posting them. Now I see people looking for pets so here is the latest development release.

Google-Chrome-dev-10.0.612.1

If you have never installed Google-chrome before get the libs for it to run in puppy here
google-libs-10 Updated 03/21/2011

If you want to use the Google-phone to make phone calls you will need those libs for the plugin that you have to download from Google itself.

Google-Phone-libs

And so that rox will respond well with google-chrome here is a pet to help with that it was supply by jemimah

xdgopen.pet

Posted: **Sat 25 Dec 2010, 20:53**

Hi Grumpy,

I'm using an old Chrome pet from you on a puplet while I used the official deb package plus your libs-7 in Wary 104 (which I summed up in a single pet)

While there's no match with seamonkey about fast script execution and more a constant in Chrome versions on Puppy is the absence of correct handling of downloaded files. Most of times clicking in chrome on a completed download leads to opening geany which complains with a beep...

No solutions?

Posted: **Sat 25 Dec 2010, 21:35**

Chrome uses the xdg-open script to open files. Here is an example of one that works:

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#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in  
        '') exit
                ;;
        *://*) exec rox -U "$1"
                ;;
        *@*.*) exec rox -U "mailto:${1}"
                ;;
        *) exec rox "$1"
                ;;
esac

You'll also want to set up URI symlinks for Rox like so:

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# ls -al /root/Choices/URI/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2010-12-22 17:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2010-06-14 18:34 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   29 2010-12-22 06:43 file -> /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   13 2010-12-22 06:43 ftp -> /usr/bin/gftp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   29 2010-12-22 06:43 http -> /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   27 2010-12-22 06:43 mailto -> /usr/local/bin/defaultemail
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   33 2010-12-22 06:43 rstp -> /usr/local/bin/defaultmediaplayer
#

Posted: **Sat 25 Dec 2010, 21:41**

Thanks jemimah,

I saw that code in your rover pet (rover_run) and when I wrote the first post I was about to write "except in Puppeee where it works like a charm" lol.

Posted: **Sun 26 Dec 2010, 02:56**

you rock wolf! Thanks for everything!

Posted: **Sat 22 Jan 2011, 20:55**

I admire your work WOLF

Posted: **Wed 09 Feb 2011, 17:11**

Main link and one of the S. Korean sites only downloads 21M and stops.
Using Puppy 4.31 with Opera 10.62 package.
Is this pet for a specific Puppy?

Posted: **Wed 09 Feb 2011, 17:35**

Ignore previous post, except which version of Puppy is this for?

Posted: **Wed 09 Feb 2011, 18:07**

It should work with puppy 4.1 and up I know it works with quriky and early versions of wary not sure about wary5 but should. if you have problems let me know will help you get it workiing.

Posted: **Wed 09 Feb 2011, 19:47**

Chrome 5 dev segfaults (with google-libs-2.pet)
Chrome 7 won't do anything, no menu item so I typed google-chrome
Chrome 10 (google-libs-9.pet - downloaded itself somehow along with

gives an error message saying it won't install.

300MHz 256MB Winbook XLi

What do I try next other than a different Puppy?

Posted: **Wed 09 Feb 2011, 20:00**

I think that your system is not able to handle this pet your mem is on the low side so it may not work for you.

Posted: **Wed 09 Feb 2011, 20:15**

Out of disk space not memory. It needed a larger pup_save file and a reboot to install, but like version 7, no menu item, and typing google-chrome gets me back the #

/opt/google/chrome

chrome.pak and google-chrome and a few png and other libraries etc. are 0 length. Is there a way to manually unpack a pet to /opt (tar?)

There is a 45MB chrome. Typing ./chrome got me error messages
about failed to load chrome.pak, no surprise.

ldd chrome - finds the dependencies (libraries)

Chrome 7 stable acted the same.

The reason for trying to install Chrome is that I want to use it on a desktop with 128MB RAMBUS RAM (can't add more for free) instead of Firefox, which uses 200% of RAM there. Someone said Chrome uses less.

Posted: **Wed 09 Feb 2011, 20:40**

I am not an expert on mem usage but google-chrome is not a lite program so I think if you are worried about mem usage then go with SeaMonkey it is designed just for that. I will build a pet of the latest stable google-chrome with a new set of scripts I have gotten and upload for you to try but for memory load size SeaMonkey is better.

Posted: **Wed 09 Feb 2011, 21:55**

Hi sindi

Here is a new google-chrome and new lib with application luncher.

Google-Chrome

google-libs-9

xdgopen

This pet provided by jemimah.

Posted: **Thu 10 Feb 2011, 00:27**

With both lynx and Seamonkey/squirrel mail (webmail) I see the links
starting with [urlhttp: and ending with /url]. I tried typing various parts of this line into the address line of Seamonkey and get 404s not found.
Could you post again as just plain http:/..... ?

I would be happy to test this stable 9 package for installability but I did get 10 usable. It did not install but I was able to tar -zxvf it and copy the google directory to a location outside the file system and start chrome by cd'ing to chrome and typing google-chrome. It uses 89+52+33+24% of my 256MB. Opera 10.62 and Seamonkey 1.1.18 use 32%.

Firefox and Chrome are both using ALL the memory so there is no point trying them with a smaller puppy. Firefox used 200% of 128MB on a desktop with two RAMBUS slots. I set Puppy to not load itself to memory on both computers.

I see that MyWolfe comes with Chrome. How does it compare with Puppy 4.31 for use on old slow computers with 256MB memory?

Anyone know why Firefox and Chrome use so much more memory in linux than in Windows?

Posted: **Thu 10 Feb 2011, 05:58**

sorry about the links fixed now and I am not sure how well MyWolfe-021 will be on your computer but MyWolfe-022 has the full LebriOffice in it. and I just completed MyWolfe-028 which has the full Xfce-4.8 but it runs firefox.

Posted: **Thu 10 Feb 2011, 14:57**

Libreoffice calls for PIII, 256MB RAM, up to 1.55GB hard
disk space. I was hoping Chrome uses less RAM than Firefox
(in linux they both use 200-256MB, less in XP), for old
laptops (200-300MHz) and an 800MHz desktop with 128MB
RAMBUS. Opera 10 linux uses about 100MB and should barely work
with Pulp 0.1 (20MB to boot), but I will put Chrome on other
computers. I give away free desktops and might try MyWolfe
with the office suite if people want Office.
Libreoffice claims to need Gnome - does it really?

Posted: **Thu 10 Feb 2011, 16:13**

No it does not need gnome I have it in MyWolfe-023 for my son to have at collage and will be recompiling it from source soon to go into a MyWolfe with xfce-4.8 office edition

Posted: **Fri 11 Feb 2011, 23:48**

I got libs 8 yesterday from link earlier in this topic and the new chrome 9 just now and will try to install in 128MB plus 200MB swap, pulp01. Probably will be very slow.

My figures on RAM used by browsers are probably way off (I used top - htop lists 1/4 the amount).

Posted: **Sat 12 Feb 2011, 00:13**

google libs 8 and 9 did actually get downloaded by Firefox 2 in pulp 0.1 despite it claiming the links were broken.

I do not know how to install pet's with pulp1. Nothing to click on.
I cd'ed to download and typed petget filename.pet and got a bunch of error messages about specific lines and things terminating. Nothing at all got copied any place. I don't even know if petget works in pulp1 - I only tested it on browsers that I manually unpackaged to their own directories.

So I manually unpackaged the libraries and copied to /usr/lib and /lib
and unpackaged chrome in download and cd'd to where google-chrome wrapper script resides and it cannot find libcups, which was not in the google library pet or in pulp itself. Printing seems to have been stripped out.

128MB is not enough to run Puppy with Chrome. I will try the new pet on some other computer eventually.

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