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Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

No problem Retrotech,

Actually, you can still update Firefox with the sfs but, I have turned automatic updating off. Same goes with the pets. You can update by going to the 'Help' tab and click on About Firefox -> Check for Updates

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2301 Location: USA

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

I have modified the Firefox packages. Changes are as follows:

- prepare-firefox.pet functions have been integrated
- firefox becomes the defaultbrowser upon the first run of the sfs
- if old saved settings are found on first run, you will have the option to remove them
- firefox-8 and firefox-9 packages have a few addons (extensions), while firefox-7 doesn't
- if libdbus-glib files are not found in /usr/lib folder, they will be put there
-- if they are already there, then the original files will not be overwritten

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

I was playing around with PupStudio today and found that Firefox-9 would often freeze up. I don't really know why. I tried resetting the network connection with the Network Wizard (not the simple one) but Firefox still crashed. Then I tried installing the recommended video driver (Xorg-High).
Firefox still loads slower for me than with smaller pups but so far it hasn't crashed. (fingers crossed).

UPDATE: I have reverted to using Firefox version 7.0.1 becuase I find it to be the more stable.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

I'm using puppy 5.28

Firefox 7 and 9 suffer with the fullscreen bug -

where you can't exit fullscreen mode - pressing F11 just reopens fullscreen.

updating JWM fixes bug - pet here
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02507

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I've come across another bug. When you right click to open a download or open its folder-

Instead of opening with default program or opening folder, mTpaint is loaded as says 'cannot open file' - even if it is an image file

any idea how to fix?

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

Firefox 10.01 official appears to be unstable on this old Pentium 4.
I think I will stick to version 7... Namoroka seems good as well.

I've modified my older pets. The install method is better and the fonts are bigger.

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

I tried version Firefox-7.0.1-2.sfs in Xprimo and it didn't work, although the pet of the same version did work.
I was confused as to why at first, but I figured it out.

Uploaded Firefox-7.0.1-3.sfs..now works in dpup exprimo, and should work now in any pups that come with Firefox preinstalled.

** warning the sfs will remove the old firefox files if they exist in /usr/lib/firefox

ilanrab · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 99

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

New versions for Firefox-7.0.1 pet and sfs have been uploaded.

I must have changed the pet over ten times, but I think I finally got them the way I like them.
Versions 8 and 9 are still the old versions.

jodother · Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 8 Location: Germany

I installed FF 9.0.1 pet on Lucid 5.2.8 with xfce. Update within FF to version "10.0.0" seemed to work (just like any former updates) but after update to 10.0.2 FF didn't start. So I uninstalled this version and re-installed the original 9.0.1 pet.

Guess I have to wait for the next pet or hope that this issue will be fixed in one of the next FF internal updates?

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2301 Location: USA

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Toronto

The reason why I didn't make up a Firefox-10 pet, is becuase it was unusable on my Pentium 4 test computer. It would freeze up doing simple tasks like surfing through the murga forum. I had some freezing problems with Firefox-9 as well, although not as bad. Firefox 10 ran okay on my dual-core, but it seemed to be laggy when loading web-pages. If Firefox 11 is more stable, then I will make a pet for it, but I didn't want to put out a pet that I know is buggy, ( EDIT - very buggy and unstable ) - thus avoiding complaints from forum members and explanations from me. (kind of).