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Firefox old version portable9/1/2023 ![]() The script which starts firefox is located in /root/my-applicatons/bin and has the line: So, it won’t work OOTB with the above build. The firefox menu entry pet was written with the assumption that your firefox folder is named ‘ firefox32’ and that it is located in the /opt folder. But if you want a mentu entry, you can download and install Mike Walsh’s FF-Quantum-MenuEntry pet available here. Menu entry: You can start portable-firefox by file-browsing into its folder and left-clicking the ff file. I’ve used it in other Puppy versions.Įven if ListDD didn't tell you, you may also need to install Mike Walsh’s glib-2.0_schemas.pet, available from here. Don’t worry about it’s “precise” designation. You can download and install Mike Walsh’s libgtk-3-0_3.4.2_i386_precise.pet from here. Left-Clicking the “Missing button” on the bottom will tell you -surprise, surprise- what's missing. File-browse into the firefox folder, Right-Click the binary named firefox and select “ListDD” from the pop-up menu. However, your Puppy may not have installed required gtk3 libraries. If so, Left-Clicking the “ff” file should open firefox. That may be all you need to have built yourself a firefox-portable. Within the extraction folder you’ll find a folder named “extralibs” and a file named “ff”. 19#1025219 in “blue” you’ll find a link named “ 32bit-additions” followed by the instructions “extract in new firefox folder (contains "ff" script and "extralibs" folder), Download the and UExtract it. Don’t discard the original tar.bz2 yet.ģ. ![]() Move the firefox folder wherever you want. This will generate a folder named, for example, firefox-76.0., within which is another folder just named firefox. ![]() In most Puppies file-browse to the file, Right-Click and select UExtract. Download the desired tar.bz2 to a location where you can find it. inux-i686/ thru en-US to the “firefox-76.0.tar.bz2” here. Starting here, you can follow the links to (I think) every version officially published by firefox, including from this link named “linux-i686”. ![]() These instructions are for the 32-bit version of firefox-76.0 as that was the last version of firefox which a forum member's computer and/or Puppy could use.ġ. If you've discovered that after your firefox has been updated, you can use the following instructions to create a portable of the version of firefox which did work. But sometimes your Puppy won't work with it. Having the newest version of an application is often advisable. ![]()
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