I am using 5 rolling on a 32 bit machine. I am quite low on ram. The latest updates seem to have broken both Firefox and Thunderbird.
I have found a Firefox 4 tazpkg which installs and runs fine although very outdated. I tried claws mail but that does not work.
They were both fine yesterday pre some updates. Is this a known issue? Uninsall and reinstall FF and TB does not help.
Thunderbird and Firefox broken
(16 posts) (5 voices)- Started 6 years ago by terrybull
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Posted 6 years ago #
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All updated browsers require SSE2 flag which is Pentium 4 or newer CPU.
The contributor that was building firefox and thunderbird packages left slitaz a long time ago.
They are old versions which is why they ran on a pentium 3 system prior to the update that broke them.
Someone tried to rebuild firefox on the build server but it failed.
Maybe try get-opera which is old opera-12.16.1860 may run but no sound or video as flash no longer works.Claws mail is starting on my fully updated system.
Try to start in terminal to see error message:
claws-mailPosted 6 years ago # -
Thanks mojo. I've now noticed that its stopped working on another system so I suspected it was something like your reply confirms. I have an old tazpkg of firefox v 4.0 that is working.
Do you or do you know where I can find a more up to date version, pre the latest update that will work on my system. I'll just block it in the updates.Posted 6 years ago # -
try palemoon - I use it on all old machines
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/request-of-newer-pale-moon-tazpkg-i-jurij-small-tazpkg-repo#post-47152
its more secure than to use old firefox
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Palemoon-sse that worked with pentium-3 and other non sse2 cpu's was discontinued.
This final post by Moonchild the lead palemoon developer in the Palemoon SSE thread is at the bottom of this page: http://tinyurl.com/palemoon-ssePosted 6 years ago # -
Thanks for the replies.
I tried seamonkey but thats a no no too.
I've found a tazpkg of Firfox 10 something in my archives but nothing newer. So just asking again can anyone help with a more recent firefox. It seems such a nuisance that I was happy with the system working well until the last update broke it. Surely someone must have a recent tazpkg saved. Please.Posted 6 years ago # -
try https://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/extra/firefox-official-38.0.5.tazpkg
plz report if it works.(I'm not on my slitaz machine this moment)Posted 6 years ago # -
https://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/5.0/palemoon-26.5.0.tazpkg (release-date 28.09.16)
firefox 38.0.5 is from 12.05.2015
maybe this script from next still works......
http://mirror1.slitaz.org/packages/next/get-palemoon-27.6.1.tazpkg
Posted 6 years ago # -
maybe try to compile 52esr - it should work https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.0esr/linux-i686/
Edit: The installation file provided by Mozilla in .tar.bz2 format does not contain sources but pre-compiled binary files, therefore you can simply unpack and run them. There is no need to compile the program from source.
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no - this is only for very old CPUs like Pentium 3 and some other non SSE2 CPUs.....
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@terrybull
I packaged firefox-17.0.11esr.tar.bz2 and thunderbird-17.0.11esr.tar.bz2 compiled by mozilla in 2015.
They both run on my updated slitaz-5.0
Remove any existing versions of firefox and thunderbird on your system before you install these to avoid possible file collisions.http://www.mediafire.com/file/2jh586rc3cc6hxh/firefox-esr-17.0.11esr.tazpkg
http://www.mediafire.com/file/aowhu2es31caqrf/thunderbird-esr-17.0.11esr.tazpkgPosted 6 years ago #
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