Apps :: FireFox 0.8 is Out!   (was FireBird)



Unfortunate associations here....
Firefox is down in my book & Rapidws as well :D
Rapidweather, are you running a system which isn't Pentium 2 or above? The only builds I can find for Firefox are for 686 and greater processors, so they won't work on older systems.
I tried to install Firefox (from the gzipped tarball) on my two DSL installations. On my 166Mhz AMD 686, it runs nicely -- but I haven't yet found a single improvement on Firebird, and some CSS tricks which rendered nicely on Firebird are a mess on Firefox.

On my 133Mhz Pentium, no joy at all. As the two installations are otherwise identical, I can only assume that there's a hardware issue. So that particular machine will have to live with archaic old Firebird for the time being.

Incidently, the 133Mhz machine (64mb ram) is running OpenOffice 1.1 (relatively) beautifully. Slow as molasses, but hey, it works.

Ken Simons, Toronto
The error message I got didn't refer to out of date libraries, or something that you get by trying to run firefox on a 586 box. I did dig around on the Mozillazine board, and found where someone had compiled a 586 version,
of FireFox which I use on Mandrake 8, which is a 586 distro. Up to now, I could only run Phoenix 5.0.
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I might try unzipping that 586 version in DSL's /opt, and see what happens.
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If I succeed with that experiment, I'll get back here. But, DSL 0.6 probably sticks with Firebird 7, since it will run ok on older boxes.
I get kinda confused here, I have tried to install Redhat 9 on 586 boxes and
at the end of the install, it gives up. That should have been made clear by the Red Hat installer right off, not after you have selected all your packages, etc.
The installer quits before it starts writing the packages to the hard drive, but
after it has already partitioned the drive to suit Redhat Linux 9.
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So, if you can get a distro to run and install, then the browser should run.
If you have an older distro, then a browser designed for a newer distro won't run, unless in my case, it has been re-compiled to run on the older distro.
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original here.