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I agree with the general opinion of removing Firefox altogether.
I'm also an Opera fan, but I believe the "big" browser should always be an extension, left to the user to decide.
Quote (curaga @ April 07 2008,09:46)
I agree with the general opinion of removing Firefox altogether.
I'm also an Opera fan, but I believe the "big" browser should always be an extension, left to the user to decide.

16 votes; and this distro is known for its strong following.  I suspect most Firefox users have been loading their own for some time now, given that its most important extension, AdBlock Plus, requires ver 1.5 or later.
Quote (roberts @ April 06 2008,13:24)
Before voting you may wish to try FFv2-gtk1 with your current hardware.

You can test it by using the firefox-2.0-gtk1.uci this is located in the uci section of the MyDSL repository.
I was under the impression that there was a stripped version done by John.  Since you are saying to try that .uci out, is it fine to assume that these changes _only_ make the package fit? (i.e., the same size as the current Firefox in DSL)

From running ps and looking at the vsz column, v2 looks like it's running in the 50MiB while the one in the base uses high 30MiB (opened 2 tabs).

I'd rather see that any Firefox version is included in the base, just because web browsing is a huge chunk of computing time (at least for me) and having a standard modern browser is important.  I'm making my decision based on the guess that most people who use the livecd will not look at extensions.  Even if you could download it, 10MB can take a while... So if DSL remains as a "desktop" livecd, I think it is necessary to keep one version in.

I'll have to see if v2 can run on 64MB of RAM before making my decision on the two though. (What about v1.0.8?)

Personally, I am an Opera user as well.  However, due to the licensing (as already pointed out), I would highly doubt this will ever be included.

Quote (jaapz @ April 07 2008,09:39)
@stupid_idiot: but still, opera is a lot heavier than the gtk1 firefox, so it won't really fit into the damn small part of our little linux distro.
I don't think so.  I've used Opera on frugal+32MB of RAM, whereas I'd give up on Firefox just because it took so long to start up and load every page (admittedly, this was on even older versions of these browsers).
John did strip ff2gtk1, but mostly in jar files. The runtime is basically the same. The physical size of the stripped version is smaller than the uci. FF2gtk1 does demand much more resources than currently used and hence my suggestion to try the uci.
i tested v2 with 64mb ram, works well for me! now my default browser :)
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