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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I have found a Firefox 4 tazpkg which installs and runs fine although very outdated.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.
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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:
[c]claws-mail[/c]
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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.
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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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Kultex.
I downloaded and installed palemoon-28.4.0 and it does not run at all. No hdd activity. Is it my Pentium 3 that is the issue here?
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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-sse
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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.
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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)
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Thanks LL. I'm busy today but I'll have time over the weekend and report back.
Best regards
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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
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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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Hello
I haven't updated SliTaz since 2 or 3 weeks. Do I understand that if I do the updates, Firefox and Thunderbird will no longer work? Excuse me if I have a stupid question, but why create new packages that don't work?
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no - this is only for very old CPUs like Pentium 3 and some other non SSE2 CPUs.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2
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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.tazpkg
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Thanks for the replies. I'll play with these later.
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mojo. I apologize for the delayed response. Combination of illness and family matters preventing me looking at this. I got around to it today and am happy to report that both the Fox and Bird versions 17.0.11 run perfectly on this P3. Many thanks for taken the time to assist.
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