Firefox 7 Beta.. HUGE improvement

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DaveS · #16 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 25 Aug 2011, 20:41

Laie wrote:Firefox 7 Beta installed.
When I come to the Puppy Forum the fonts are very tiny - too tiny for my old eyes . I zoom in (Ctrl;+) and the fonts get bigger. I click into the next page and the fonts are tiny again. It sucks. What's my fault?
Changing the font size in Edit/Preferences/Content doesn't help.

Another thing:
When starting Firefox two tabs get opened: My start page and the Mozilla Firefox Start Page.

click the 'advanced' button in edit>preferences>content>fonts and colors, and increase the minimum font size.
edit>preferences>general, and configure what ff displays when it starts.

nooby · #17 Post by **nooby** » Fri 26 Aug 2011, 09:56

When starting Firefox two tabs get opened: My start page and the Mozilla Firefox Start Page.

Laie that is how Mozilla Firefox wants it. It is a free software and that tab is their way to say. Hey we are the ones doing all the work. Maybe you as user can join our program for giving feedback

So it should look like that. But as Dave suggest you can change the preferences.

Laie · #18 Post by **Laie** » Fri 26 Aug 2011, 18:44

Thanks, DaveS,
I missed the button minimum font size, stupid me...

And I never noticed the small difference: If there are more than one tabs opened, the button in edit>preferences>general says "current pages". I just had to close the other tab and choose "current page".
Hmm, oops again.

DaveS · #19 Post by **DaveS** » Fri 26 Aug 2011, 18:46

Laie wrote:Thanks, DaveS,
I missed the button minimum font size, stupid me...
And I never noticed the small difference: If there are more than one tabs opened, the button in edit>preferences>general says "current pages". I just had to close the other tab and choose "current page".
Hmm, oops again.

Cool... glad you got it fixed

don922 · #20 Post by **don922** » Sat 27 Aug 2011, 11:33

DaveS wrote:I made a .pet for you nooby. It is here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/firefox/

username puppy
password linux

If you already have Firefox installed, it will overwrite it. I SHOULD also automatically update when a new beta is released.

I downloaded and am using this .pet. It seems to work well.

DaveS: I don't understand your statement,
"I SHOULD also automatically update....."

Should it read
"IT SHOULD also automatically update when a new beta is released"?

Thank You!

nancy reagan · #21 Post by **nancy reagan** » Sat 27 Aug 2011, 12:41

DaveS wrote: click the 'advanced' button in edit>preferences>content>fonts and colors, and increase the minimum font size.
edit>preferences>general, and configure what ff displays when it starts.

GREAT RELIEF HERE THANKS

DaveS · #22 Post by **DaveS** » Sat 27 Aug 2011, 16:58

don922 wrote:
DaveS wrote:I made a .pet for you nooby. It is here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/firefox/

username puppy
password linux

If you already have Firefox installed, it will overwrite it. I SHOULD also automatically update when a new beta is released.
I downloaded and am using this .pet. It seems to work well.

DaveS: I don't understand your statement,
"I SHOULD also automatically update....."

Should it read
"IT SHOULD also automatically update when a new beta is released"?

Thank You!

Ooops... yes

DaveS · #23 Post by **DaveS** » Sat 27 Aug 2011, 16:59

nancy reagan wrote:
DaveS wrote: click the 'advanced' button in edit>preferences>content>fonts and colors, and increase the minimum font size.
edit>preferences>general, and configure what ff displays when it starts.
GREAT RELIEF HERE THANKS

Cool

Colonel Panic · #24 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Mon 29 Aug 2011, 16:07

DaveS wrote:
Laie wrote:Firefox 7 Beta installed.
When I come to the Puppy Forum the fonts are very tiny - too tiny for my old eyes . I zoom in (Ctrl;+) and the fonts get bigger. I click into the next page and the fonts are tiny again. It sucks. What's my fault?
Changing the font size in Edit/Preferences/Content doesn't help.

Another thing:
When starting Firefox two tabs get opened: My start page and the Mozilla Firefox Start Page.
click the 'advanced' button in edit>preferences>content>fonts and colors, and increase the minimum font size.
edit>preferences>general, and configure what ff displays when it starts.

I hadn't seen that either, so thanks for that. I need a magnifying glass to read the on-screen type sometimes

Sit Heel Speak · #25 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Mon 29 Aug 2011, 23:52

Laie wrote:Firefox 7 Beta installed.
When I come to the Puppy Forum the fonts are very tiny - too tiny for my old eyes . I zoom in (Ctrl;+) and the fonts get bigger. I click into the next page and the fonts are tiny again. It sucks. What's my fault?
Changing the font size in Edit/Preferences/Content doesn't help.

Edit/Preferences/Content and then under Fonts & Colors click the Advanced button and set Minimum Font Size larger. On my 20-inch flatpanel monitor I like 12.

Laie wrote:Another thing:
When starting Firefox two tabs get opened: My start page and the Mozilla Firefox Start Page.

Edit/Preferences/General and play with the buttons and settings under Startup.

tlchost · #26 Post by **tlchost** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 18:28

[quote="DaveS"]I made a .pet for you nooby. It is here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/firefox/

Would it be possible to make a pet of the new Forefox 7 available?

Thanks

DaveS · #27 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 18:33

tlchost wrote:
DaveS wrote:I made a .pet for you nooby. It is here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/firefox/

Would it be possible to make a pet of the new Forefox 7 available?

Thanks

Sure... is there a FF7? I have been using the beta, which just auto-updates. Will check it out. Which Puppy version?

loubapache · #28 Post by **loubapache** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 18:34

I installed the stable release of Firefox 7 on my Ubuntu machines and this is a very fast Firefox!

It would be nice to have a PET or SFS for Puppy Linux 5.2.x.

TIA.

#29 Post by **Makoto** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 18:37

Yeah, the final version of FF7 has been released. It works great on all my other systems (noticeable improvement), but I downloaded and installed the Linux version (manual install) yesterday, removing the extracted and working FF5 directory - I didn't get around to installing FF6, there

- and replacing it with the extracted FF7 directory... and nothing will execute. Error messages in the terminal claim none of the binaries are dynamic executables.

Wonder if I downloaded the wrong version. I'll have to try again, later.

tlchost · #30 Post by **tlchost** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 18:52

DaveS wrote: been using the beta, which just auto-updates. Will check it out. Which Puppy version?

Apparently the beta does not update to the release version. I am using Fluppy013, and the beta pet you released worked fine in Fluppy.

Thanks

Thom

nooby · #31 Post by **nooby** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 19:00

DaveS wrote:I made a .pet for you nooby. It is here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/firefox/

tlchost asks DaveS
Would it be possible to make a pet of the new Forefox 7 available?

Thanks

Dave wow that is nice and friendly, caring even. oops yes I know it is the FF7 Beta. Anyway I remember that I got it working.

I joined some Nightly build testing on mozilla but not sure how ir works with updates to the standard version. Maybe them are always nightly builds even when the Standard version arrives.
end of edit

I am so messed up now. Should one use pets or SFSs instead?

I have now used a pet installed Firefox that works in pemasu's old Snow 5 because that one allow me to save musik files much easier than the modern ones so I still ahve FF 3.6.22

But I also ahve FF4 and FF5 and FF6 and FF7 but not installed.
have just saved the pet files just in case.

And I want to use Pup-Rescue and that way get Antivirus and Bleachbit and to be modern so if your pet work in Lupu528 that would be great.

Edit now I am back in FF from Chromium that I loaded using seaside's SFS-exec or SFS-tray. Used on for C12 and the other for C14.

I guess I use latest build in either Slacko or in Lupu 528 latest version.

So I should look into it ASAP tomorrow or on Saturday.

DaveS · #32 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 19:10

OK, its up. Download from here http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/DaveS/firefox/
firefox-7.0.pet

username puppy
password linux

give it a spin

nooby · #33 Post by **nooby** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 19:17

Ah you have done it again. But now the latest one?
Do I strain your patience if I ask for an sfs too?
SFS are so flexible to use

But thanks very much for the .pet.
I will use it in your Pupu-rescue distro

Edit, oh that is great. Then I wait with going to bed until the sfs is there then. Much appreciated.

DaveS · #34 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 19:18

nooby wrote:Ah you have done it again. But now the latest one?
Do I strain your patience if I ask for an sfs too?
SFS are so flexible to use But thanks very much for the .pet.
I will use it in your Pupu-rescue distro

No problem... will upload in a min or two.

DaveS · #35 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Sep 2011, 19:33

nooby wrote:Ah you have done it again. But now the latest one?
Do I strain your patience if I ask for an sfs too?
SFS are so flexible to use But thanks very much for the .pet.
I will use it in your Pupu-rescue distro

SFS is up. Same link. Let me know if there are any problems, but it works fine on my machine

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