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Question: Firefox :: Total Votes:27
Poll choices Votes Statistics
Update to Firefox v2 gtk1. 7  [25.93%]
Leave Firefox as is. 3  [11.11%]
Remove Firefox from DSL. 17  [62.96%]
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Posted: April 13 2008,16:27 QUOTE
Quote (imhennessy @ April 13 2008,12:07)
I voted for removal.
Dillo does almost everything I need, and the firefox/bon echo 2 uci is great.

I'm only mentioning this in this thread because there was a question about anyone having trouble with the uci, and I have had some.

I will gather my info and do a full fledged "Help Me!" soon, but in the mean time I will mention that I made the mistake of loading the Flash plugin for the uci, and immediately all web pages with flash killed firefox, no matter which version I tried.  Rebooting did not help.

Further details to be posted in a separate thread.
ivan

Shouldn't be a problem in DSL ver 5. (prior versions require flash 7).
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Posted: April 13 2008,18:00 QUOTE
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I will gather my info and do a full fledged "Help Me!" soon, but in the mean time I will mention that I made the mistake of loading the Flash plugin for the uci, and immediately all web pages with flash killed firefox, no matter which version I tried. Rebooting did not help.

This isn't a problem with the firefox UCI but a separate Flash issue. The solution is to remove the flash plugin or its link; rebooting with both extensions will load them both and cause the 'problem' to continue. So don't load them both -- remove the flash extension, run base norestore (I don't remember if the flash plugin ends up in ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins), or just delete the flash plugin. Running without flash and all its security problems is safer anyway.

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Posted: April 13 2008,20:57 QUOTE
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i tested v2 with 64mb ram, works well for me! now my default browser :)

Is that with any swap?

nope, i wanted to do some swap, but then forgot to make a swap partition when i installed dsl xD, should make a swap partition soon though...

anyway, i found out ff2gtk1 is not very stable jet on my 400mhz 64mb ram with no swap laptop, on the heavier websites ff just stuns the whole system, which then needs a "hard" restart (off-button for 5 secs xD), and thats not very cool. maybe when i have swap it would work better... so, now using ff1 again as default...
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Posted: April 14 2008,21:19 QUOTE
I think the answer depends on what user base you are going after. Those with aging computers or those with fast computers that want a really small OS...
Personally I run Ubuntu on anything with at least 256MB RAM and a decent processor, anything else: its gonna be DSL now that I've gotten familiar with it.
If most people are like me, I'd say ditch firefox and switch to Opera. My experience on a 120MHz, 16MB RAM machine was firefox took 10 minutes to load while filling up the RAM and a quarter of the 64MB swap, while Opera loaded in under a minute and was useable for browsing sites Dillo could not.
That is the Opera in MyDSL, btw.

I haven't checked but what are the footprints of firefox and opera?

I wish Opera luck with what seems to be their new goal of targeting the mobile and embedded market. I hope it is profitable for them.
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Posted: April 14 2008,22:22 QUOTE
Given a 2.4 kernel, the answer is the older machines.
I too use and like Opera. However, Opera is not open source.
Wish Dillo Fltk would be an answer to this dilema.
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