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Slimjet Browser in 5?

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• Started 7 years ago by TraceE
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   TraceE
   

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   I have recently updated to Slitaz 5 from 4 on my old Toshiba Satellite Pro.

   I am mainly loving 5 but one thing I have noticed is the latest version of Firefox (51) is maxing the cpu out at 100% a lot.

   I have tried Pale Moon which was a bit better but still wanted to try more alternatives ... reading around I have come across Slimjet and as it had a .deb package I converted to .tazpkg and installed it ... which went fine ... but I cannot run it?

   Can anybody help me to start Slimjet or suggest other Firefox alternatives that are lighter on the cpu?

   P.S. ... Also I couldn't get the latest libflashplayer.so to work no matter where I put it ... any advise on that?

   Posted 7 years ago #
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   totoetsasoeur
   

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   No idea about Slimjet, but have you tried midori?
   http://pkgs.slitaz.org/?info=midori

   Posted 7 years ago #
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   Aleksej
   

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   Hi TraceE,

   To debug the app, please open your terminal and run the app from there. Read the error messages. If you can't cope with them, please copy and paste here.

   Posted 7 years ago #
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   TraceE
   

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   @totoetsasoeur ... yes have tried it and had problems with Amazon UK ... was just wanting to try other options too ... :)

   @Aleksej ... I tried that ... and the app couldn't be found?

   Posted 7 years ago #
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   Aleksej
   

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   TraceE,

   If you converted deb package slimjet, so I think you have now SliTaz package slimjet installed.

   Please, take a look to the list of files of the slimjet package:

   tazpkg -lf slimjet

   Here "-lf" is shortcut for "list files". You should found something like "/usr/bin/slimjet" among other files. Please pay attention to the all executable files you able to run: they all located in the folder "/usr/bin":

   tazpkg -lf slimjet | fgrep /bin/

   What do you see?

   Posted 7 years ago #
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   Ceel
   

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   Hi,

   The file in /usr/bin is flashpeak-slimjet; it's a symlink to the script /opt/slimjet/flashpeak-slimjet.
   The script requires bash to be launched.
   But still an error:
   # /opt/slimjet/flashpeak-slimjet
[3932:3932:0211/134040:ERROR:nacl_fork_delegate_linux.cc(315)] Bad NaCl helper startup ack (0 bytes)
Instruction non permise

   I tried to install slimjet from the .tar.xz file; same error.

   Posted 7 years ago #
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   Aleksej
   

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   Hi Ceel,

   I just tried to do the same, in parallel with you :)
   It works for me. But I assume it an evil browser, and I will not use it anymore :-|
   I opened this forum in it, then it asks me if I need to translate the page, I rejects and then the blackout appeared: my system is just ruined. I long pressed the Power button and then started my notebook again. Thanks gods all well :-D

   Ceel, I see you run it as root user. I think it may be the root of the error. It created the configuration folder for USER with the ROOT permissions: my user is "lexeii" and I got the root permissions using just "su" command, then started the "/opt/slimjet/flashpeak-slimjet" as root, and then it created the folder "/home/lexeii/.config/slimjet" that only root user can access.

   Please remove the "$HOME/.config/slimjet" folder as root and then try to re-run slimjet as user. It works for me (but I want to remove it completely right now). Also, you may try to set so-called SUID bit on the selected executable files inside "/opt/slimjet" folder: some sandboxing binaries needs that bit set to run (as far as I know, Chrome sandbox, new Opera sandbox, and so on). The command is like (run as root):

   chmod 4755 /opt/slimjet/slimjet-sandbox

   PS. I set this bit manually for the "get-opera-blink" package because SliTaz packages can't store this bit inside the package (I may be wrong but it looks like): http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/602cd7b0094d#l2.105

   PPS. Note the "s" for the SUID bit ("-rwsr-xr-x" is equal for "4755" chmod)
   

   root@slitaz:/home/lexeii# ls -l /opt/slimjet/slimjet-sandbox 
   
   -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root         20008 Feb 11 15:43 /opt/slimjet/slimjet-sandbox

   Posted 7 years ago #
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   TraceE
   

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   Just got back to have another try but I see you guys have had a go at doing it already.

   Aleksej ...are you saying this is a bad browser to use with Slitaz or it was just bad on your system?

   If it's going to cause problems with Slitaz I will look for a different browser.

   Posted 7 years ago #
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   Aleksej
   

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   TraceE,

   Did you made the very first thing to improve the overall SliTaz system responsiveness - to install properly video drivers? Your system may working well if you use just text editor and terminal, but you may notice strange lags even when you scroll the web page... If I remember correctly, to install video driver you need run the command "tazx" in the console with root permissions (available pressing Ctrl + Alt + F#, where # is from 1 to 6; then log in as root). Also you need the working internet connection, and just good luck :)

   As touching this browser, well, sorry, there's only my emotions. Maybe something bad in my system, but no one application not leaves me along with the black screen yet. Frankly, this browser not looks like I can like it :)

   If your needs are very simple (no modern web sites, social networks, no Youtube, etc.) you may use the simple and fast old Opera browser (install package "get-opera" and then execute as root the command "get-opera").

   You may also try to use the new Opera based on the Blink engine (the same as in Chrome): use the package "get-opera-blink".

   Also you can find the Firefox ESR in the forum topic close to this. The ESR version is older than the latest Firefox, but includes all the bug fixes to the current moment. It should be a bit lighter than the latest Firefox.

   Other browsers I not used in the last few months, and can not say something good or bad about them.

   Posted 7 years ago #
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    Ceel
    

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    Hi Aleksej,

    Yes, I run flashpeak-slimjet as root the first time as indicated on the web site when installing from .tar.xz

    Finally I removed it and reinstalled following your advises. I meat problems with /opt/slimjet/lib/libnss3.so and /opt/slimjet/lib/libnssutil3.so:
    

    /opt/slimjet/slimjet : symbol lookup error: /opt/slimjet/lib/libnss3.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure
    /opt/slimjet/slimjet : symbol lookup error: /opt/slimjet/lib/libnssutil3.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure

    As these 2 libs are already present in /usr/lib/palemoon, I suppressed the 2 files in /opt/slimjet/lib/ and slimjet "started": it took long minutes to open a window with nothing else that the address bar, I had to close.
    Seems to be OK now (it proposed to me to translate the forum too; I had more chance that you ;-)

    I'm going to test it a few weeks.

    Have a nice sunday.

    Posted 7 years ago #
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    TraceE
    

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    Ceel ... I find it hard to follow exactly what you did ... can you give me a simple step by step of how to install this browser? ... and I will test it too ... :)

    Posted 7 years ago #
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    I-Jurij
    

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    I did so:
    download and unpack to /opt/slimjet,
    install GConf, ORBit2 (or download, unpack its and move libgconf-2*, libORBit* to /opt/slimjet/lib),
    change libnss* to slitaz libnss*,
    run $ /opt/slimjet/flashpeak-slimjet (choose variant 2 - su).
    That`s all.
    But still an error:
    # /opt/slimjet/flashpeak-slimjet
    [3932:3932:0211/134040:ERROR:nacl_fork_delegate_linux.cc(315)] Bad NaCl helper startup ack (0 bytes)
    and no work yoyutube-dl plugin (perl error).

    Posted 7 years ago #
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    Ceel
    

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    I find it hard to follow exactly what you did ...

    Yes, I can understand... :-)

    Well,

    1. Installing from the compressed archive.
       I did it in a very similar way that I-Jurij did:
       • Download the archive: http://www.slimjet.com/fr/postdl.php?version=lnx32&type=zip
       • Open a terminal and become root (su / root)
       • If the directory /opt does not exist on your system, create it:
         mkdir /opt
       • Move the archive in /opt and uncompress it:
         mv /path/to/slimjet_i386.tar.xz
cd /opt
tar -xJf slimjet_i386.tar.xz
       • Install dependences
         tazpkg -gi libcups
tazpkg -gi GConf
       • and bash
         tazpkg -gi bash
       • Close the terminal: [Ctrl]+[D] twice
       • Open the terminal as user and launch slimjet:
         /opt/slimjet/flashpeak-slimjet &

       Slimjet should start. In my case I got an error
       /opt/slimjet/slimjet : symbol lookup error: /opt/slimjet/lib/libnss3.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure
       As libnss3.so already existed in /usr/lib/palemoon (Pale Moon is installed on my system) I deleted /opt/slimjet/lib/libnss3.so.
       Then I tried to launch it again and got another error
       /opt/slimjet/slimjet : symbol lookup error: /opt/slimjet/lib/libnssutil3.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure
       For the same reason than explained above, I deleted /opt/slimjet/lib/libnssutil3.so and the slimjet started.

    2. Installing from the debian package.
       This should be easier because TazPkg will most of the job.
       • Download the package: http://www.slimjet.com/en/postdl.php?version=lnx32&type=deb
       • Open a terminal as root (su / root). Convert the .deb in .tazpkg package
         tazpkg convert /path/to/slimjet_i386.deb
       • and then install it
         tazpkg -i slimjet-13.0.3.0.tazpkg
       • Install bash:
         tazpkg -gi bash
       • Close the terminal: [Ctrl]+[D] twice

       Now, you can run SlimJet from Applications > Internet > FlashPeak SlimJet or from a terminal typing flashpeak-slimjet
       The first time, Slimjet is very long to open.

    Whatever the way I used to install it I always get
    [3199:3199:0215/220430:ERROR:nacl_fork_delegate_linux.cc(315)] Bad NaCl helper startup ack (0 bytes) when I launch it from a terminal (and may other messages) but it starts.

    My first impression after a few days, SlimJet won't become my web browser: it is slower than Pale Moon.
    Second bad point, SlimJet is based on Chrome and I don't like Chrome. But this is purely own feeling.
    If you search for a fast browser you can try QtWeb. Unfortunately, it hasn't have any update since 2013/09/09 and becomes less and less compatible with the internet but still usable.

    Posted 7 years ago #
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    TraceE
    

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    Thanks for all that Ceel ... I tried it but went back to firefox after buying a faster laptop .. the only problem I'm having now is installing flashplayer (which is detailed in another thread).

    Posted 7 years ago #

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