Saved for last was a browser that is by no means revolutionary, but introduces some very interesting parts that we don't often see. I only recently made the transition from Firefox to Chrome, and many would say I'm a good year late on that.Ī little over a month ago, Joel put out a nice piece discussing some of the best browsers for Windows. Once you fall in love with a particular browser, it's very tough to be pulled away from it. It's the vehicle that lets you stroll out into this wonderful Internet that we all know so well.
#ELECTRON 3D SLIMBOAT REVIEW INSTALL#
I do notice that I get fewer errors and warnings in console if I install Flash Player 11 rather than using the native version 10 in Wary.Once you've tried Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari, is there anything left? The browser is generally considered to be the most important part of your home PC experience. Those can be removed by manually editing /etc/profile afterwards. It does subsequently boot to desktop without needing "xwin" but you do get the locale warnings in console. I have removed the /etc/profile and done some quick tests. The dialog box does not appear when you boot the live CD, only on the first boot after a save-file is created. Later:- I think the issue with the first run dialog is a bug in Wary and not connected to glibc upgrades you know. Anyway, I've taken that package down for now and will do more tests when I get time. Really though we may have to accept that SlimBoat is not guaranteed to run in Puppies with glibc version earlier than 2.11 since that is what it is compiled against. Perhaps that needs to be approached in a different way. I did include a modified /etc/profile in an attempt to resolve the locale issue so maybe that is what is causing the problem.
#ELECTRON 3D SLIMBOAT REVIEW UPGRADE#
What about if you create the save-file first and then do the glibc upgrade? To be honest I have always had my doubts about the idea of a glibc upgrade done in this way and would be reluctant to do such a thing in an everyday pup. I didn't test extensively but the tests I did all seemed OK at the time. Hmm, don't really know what to say about that then. SlimBoat integrates more features and functions than any other internet browser. Reduce time waste, keyboard & mouse entries with by doing everything automatically. Version 1.1.43 now re-uploaded to my Yandex Disk here:- Shorter startup time, faster web page browsing powered by efficient webkit engine. You may also need to upgrade libxml2 if you want to remove a whinge in console, but it runs without doing this step.Īny other comments or suggestions welcome. pet in my Yandex Disk includes watchdog's fix for locales). There are a few whinges in console and a few minor rendering glitches, but for the most part it runs quite well.Ī reminder that it won't run in Wary or Racy unless you do a glibc upgrade which there are a couple of threads about if anyone wants to give that a try (a. Also still works in Wheezy, will check Ubuntu derivs later but probably OK.
Tested and Flash Player works in Slacko 5.6 and 5.5 and 5.3.3 but not sure about 5.4 (haven't got that one to hand) which I recall had Opera but those libs were probably included somewhere. I have modified the wrapper script thingy so that Slimboat will now find libraries in the subfolders of /usr/lib so it should find the needed libs in either Firefox or Seamonkey in the conventional Puppy configuration. I have come up with another cunning plan which does not duplicate the libs and does not increase the size of the package. There is a setting in Tools>Options to delete the cache whenever you close the browser so the data does not need to build up if you don't want it Marv and anyone else interested, The cache is located in /root/.cache/FlashPeak/SlimBoat so you can look there.
0 kommentar(er)
