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friedgold

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Posted: July 06 2005,16:12

Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ July 05 2005,22:20)

As we have stated before, this is not an error with DSL.

This is a bug in the version of Firefox that DSL uses by default. (Firefox 0.9.1)

The main reason that we have not updated to a more recent version of Firefox is that it is a LOT of work to rewrite an application as large as Firefox in GTK 1.2, which is what was done with 0.9.1.

If someone gets ambitious and rewrites a newer version of Firefox in GTK 1.2, I'm relatively sure that if it proves stable, and is relatively the same size as the current version, that it would be included in a future release as a replacement to the existing version.

Until someone does this, either someone in the DevTeam (not me, I suck at coding things that big) or another user does this, Firefox 0.9.1 is likely here to stay, because it works, is fast, uses gtk 1.2, and is just relatively cozy to browse the web with.

At this point, if you need a newer version of Firefox, there are several newer, including the latest version, I think, available as MyDSL packages.

-J.P.

I was under the impression that GTK1.2 support is present in the mozilla source and just needed to be enabled at compile time by running configure with --enable-default-toolkit=gtk instead of --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2. Or has this been dropped for more recent firefox releases?

cbagger01

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Posted: July 06 2005,16:15

The difficult part is not recompiling with GTK1.2 instead of GTK2.x

The difficult part is recompiling a custom patched source that has been stripped of some functionality in order to get an executable that can be squeezed into a 50MB livecd.

At least that is my impression. I'm not the guy that did the customizing, so I don't know for sure.

Knusper

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Posted: July 06 2005,18:53

so, i installed the newest (1.0.4) firefox version from the firefox hp, even the german versuion.. the alt-gr key still does not work... it seems that this is not a problem of the older firefox version... with the XVesa driver the alt-gr + q string works at other appllications (e.g dillo) well...

edit: needles to say, that it also did not work with the firefox1.0PR.dsl.info extension....

another edit: okay, jls legalize's trick does it... under Xvesa...
but i made it like that:

Code Sample

dsl@box:~$ xmodmap -e "remove mod4 = Mode_switch"
dsl@box:~$ xmodmap -e "add mod5 = Mode_switch"

stamfar

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Posted: July 16 2005,12:52

Quote (friedgold @ July 06 2005,12:12)

[quote=SaidinUnleashed,July 05 2005,22:20]As we have stated before, this is not an error with DSL.

This is a bug in the version of Firefox that DSL uses by default. (Firefox 0.9.1)

The main reason that we have not updated to a more recent version of Firefox is that it is a LOT of work to rewrite an application as large as Firefox in GTK 1.2, which is what was done with 0.9.1.

If someone gets ambitious and rewrites a newer version of Firefox in GTK 1.2, I'm relatively sure that if it proves stable, and is relatively the same size as the current version, that it would be included in a future release as a replacement to the existing version.

Until someone does this, either someone in the DevTeam (not me, I suck at coding things that big) or another user does this, Firefox 0.9.1 is likely here to stay, because it works, is fast, uses gtk 1.2, and is just relatively cozy to browse the web with.

At this point, if you need a newer version of Firefox, there are several newer, including the latest version, I think, available as MyDSL packages.

as I have stated before the bug does not only appear in Firefox 0.9.1, but in all decent browsers from the myDSL repos;
namely all versions of Firefox, Mozilla and Opera.

stamfar

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Posted: July 16 2005,13:53

Quote (Knusper @ July 06 2005,14:53)

another edit: okay, jls legalize's trick does it... under Xvesa...
but i made it like that:

Code Sample

dsl@box:~$ xmodmap -e "remove mod4 = Mode_switch"
dsl@box:~$ xmodmap -e "add mod5 = Mode_switch"

WoW!

That did the trick ! *Finaly* i can start using DSL again,
my use has mainly been settig up old machines we get for free ,mostly P1, with 128 of ram or (more than often) below.
Making them into internet/surf machines where people who dosen't have an internet connection/computer can surf/check email for free.

and nothing touches DamnSmalls speed when it comes to old hardware, and its a joy to setup and use.

hopefuly this will fix will be baked into the 1.4 release

th@nks everybody
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