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Re: SlimBoat Browser

#31 Post by stvjhson »

May I ask which website gives you the ssl errors? I am using the latest version 1.1.19 and have no ssl errors with gmail and hotmail.
rameshiyer wrote:I have installed the SlimBoat Browser in Precise Puppy. However, while opening https website, either slow or showing SSL error. How to solve these?. Otherwise, it seems to be good even better than other browsers?.

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Slimbot Browser

#32 Post by rameshiyer »

Not frequently. I have experienced SSL certificate error while logging www.facebook.com etc. This may be occasional glitch. Anyway I am extensively using Slimbrowser. Thank you all.

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SlimBoat

#33 Post by rameshiyer »

Why Slimboat is not working in Arch Puppy.?

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Re: SlimBoat

#34 Post by stvjhson »

What errors do you have get on arch puppy?
rameshiyer wrote:Why Slimboat is not working in Arch Puppy.?

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Slimboat browser

#35 Post by rameshiyer »

Dear Stvjhson

No error found. Not launching at all.

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Re: Slimboat browser

#36 Post by stvjhson »

No segmentation fault or missing libraries message in the launching console?
rameshiyer wrote:Dear Stvjhson

No error found. Not launching at all.

rameshiyer

Slimboat

#37 Post by rameshiyer »

No message either lauching through command prompt or clicking slimboat.sh. No output at all. She is adamant!. Please lookinto this.

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Re: Slimboat

#38 Post by stvjhson »

FlashPeak has just posted SlimBoat 1.1.20. Maybe you can try it out and see if it makes any difference.

By the way, where did you download this Arch Puppy? I might install it and try it out sometime.
rameshiyer wrote:No message either lauching through command prompt or clicking slimboat.sh. No output at all. She is adamant!. Please lookinto this.

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Re: Slimboat

#39 Post by stvjhson »

I just downloaded archpup-12.12.2 from this forum post: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 851#671851 . Extract slimboat_i386.tar.xz (v1.1.20) together with the gstream libs listed on http://www.slimboat.com/en/dlpage.php . It runs fine for me.

rameshiyer wrote:No message either lauching through command prompt or clicking slimboat.sh. No output at all. She is adamant!. Please lookinto this.

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Slimboat

#40 Post by rameshiyer »

Anyway I may be unlucky in Arch Puppy. May be due to some conflict with other programs.

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#41 Post by scsijon »

1.1.23 out, will try with mageia puppy as I have been looking for a single default replacement browser and this one looks interesting

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#42 Post by scsijon »

wow! Very Impressed, the things this can do are great!

And the win$ and puppy versions actually handle the same to the user.

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#43 Post by dejan555 »

If Eyes-Only says it's good then I must try it :)
Seems like some Slimboat developers found this thread so I guess it will be good if they keep it compatible with puppy from early versions.
With all these mainstream browsers going heavy on size and resources we pupians always like to find something like this as long as it has enough functionality and compatibility with current web standards, that's why I still use seamonkey but I'll test this ASAP.
Too bad it's not GPL/open source. :?
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]

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#44 Post by Eyes-Only »

Dejan555 wrote:"If Eyes-Only says it's good then I must try it."
LOL Dejan! What makes ME such an authority all of a sudden? :lol:

Just for the record here I haven't done any "official" browser work in literally years my friend. Since retiring I now just play around with them all - and I now prefer this state far better over the former. This way I don't feel guilty if I want to use another browser other than something based solely upon Gecko. ;)

Thanks for that vote of confidence just the same though my friend!

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#45 Post by dejan555 »

I know what you mean :)

OK, sooo... I tried this on my puppy, it does seem fast, flash won't work for me though I tried to copy libflashplayer.so from seamonkey plugins dir to slimboat/plugins; slimboat/libs; slimboat/plugins/codecs; and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins - is that where it's usually located in lucid/precise since I understand it works out of the box there?

Also I noticed tab names and toolbar buttons don't always update according to current page.

EDIT: Oh yeah this is on dpup485, I installed generic linux 32bit package and added gstreamer libs from squeeze repo
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]

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#46 Post by OscarTalks »

Version 1.1.24 is out.
The gstreamer libs package on the downloads page is just an empty file at the moment. Maybe they are updating that.

Anyway I downloaded the Debian Wheezy gstreamer libs and included them and have packaged SlimBoat as a .PET which seems to work in Dpup Wheezy. Haven't tried other Puppies yet (though I know it won't work in Racy).

Flash Player is working (in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins).

With datafilehost you want the smaller "download" button.
The larger "download now" thing is an ad.

SlimBoat 1.1.24 Wheezy .pet
download = FILE REMOVED
Please see below for newer version
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#47 Post by zenn »

Nicely done, OscarTalks. Installed your pet, using Slimboat as I type, on Precise 5.4.3. I was looking for a lightweight alternative to Seamonkey as I'm running on only 256MB of ram.

Youtube works but with frequent stuttering of both video and audio. Using Htop to check the usage shows regular spikes to 100%.

However, using Seamonkey to view the same video yielded a smoother experience, with only occasional lags in video, none for audio.

Strangely when using SlimBoat, the Murga Linux forum is displayed in rather small font size but when I click on a thread, individual posts have the usual (acceptable) font size.

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#48 Post by OscarTalks »

Hello zenn,

Thanks for testing and reporting. Tried a few YouTube videos here in Wheezy and seems all OK. If RAM is low I hope you have some swap. I think fonts can be changed in preferences but it is a new browser for me so only just started looking myself.

Anyway I have made another version using the official Ubuntu Precise gstreamer libs so this one may work better in Precise Puppy.

With datafilehost use the smaller "download" button.
The larger "download now" thing is an ad.

SlimBoat 1.1.24 Precise .pet
download = FILE REMOVED
Please see below for newer version
Last edited by OscarTalks on Fri 12 Apr 2013, 02:21, edited 1 time in total.
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#49 Post by slavvo67 »

I'm using UpUp Precise and Slimboat certainly lightened the load a little. Works very good except not so good with Youtube streaming video. One other comment, the Google Search link uses a customized Google Search and not the direct Google.com. Not an issue if you don't use it but it worries me that there may be some other monitoring going on behind the scenes.

That said... I like it. Nice, lightweight, clean and almost as fast as Dillo. THIS IS DEFINITELY WORTH A LOOK AS A DEFAULT BROWSER FOR DISTRO MAKERS!

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#50 Post by stvjhson »

It looks like they have fixed the gstreamer libs download link now. It now points to a xz package of about 400KB.
OscarTalks wrote:Version 1.1.24 is out.
The gstreamer libs package on the downloads page is just an empty file at the moment. Maybe they are updating that.

Anyway I downloaded the Debian Wheezy gstreamer libs and included them and have packaged SlimBoat as a .PET which seems to work in Dpup Wheezy. Haven't tried other Puppies yet (though I know it won't work in Racy).

Flash Player is working (in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins).

With datafilehost you want the smaller "download" button.
The larger "download now" thing is an ad.

SlimBoat 1.1.24 Wheezy .pet
download = http://www.datafilehost.com/download-f6fe5296.html
md5sum = 826e8bd7325e5583fb79cd22ef91c2b5

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