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greyowl
@ PPC and Xecure
Thanks for the help.
It wasn’t a waste of time because I have learned quite a few things with these efforts and suggestions.Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
Xecure
Better use palemoon for now. I just tried and building badwolf for stretch 32bits fails. It seems some of the stretch libraries are missing important components used by badwolf, so no-go.
I will add” learn how to package Appimages” to the list of interests. Too much on my plate right now to promise anything. It took me 2 month to learn how to build debian packages, and that is “simple” nowadays. Appimages are a newer frontier.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.
anticapitalista
@present time Palemoon 28.16.0-1 is here as an i386 deb. for debian 9 and 10 among others.
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:stevenpusser&package=palemoon
This very latest will also hit antiX-17 repos very soon.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
@present time Palemoon 28.16.0-1 is here as an i386 deb. for debian 9 and 10 among others.
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:stevenpusser&package=palemoon
Thanks for the information and link.
Hopefully, Steven will continue to provide updates here for 32 bit systems.Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
Better use palemoon for now. I just tried and building badwolf for stretch 32bits fails. It seems some of the stretch libraries are missing important components used by badwolf, so no-go.
I will add” learn how to package Appimages” to the list of interests. Too much on my plate right now to promise anything. It took me 2 month to learn how to build debian packages, and that is “simple” nowadays. Appimages are a newer frontier.
Thanks for trying 🙂
Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
ModdIt
Getting harder to find lightweight 32 bit browser may be understated for the future.
One other at present is Vivaldi. Chrome based and supposed to run on older hardware.
Personaly I will have a play with ungoogled chromium.
Some help with setup found here
https://avoidthehack.com/how-to-install-configure-ungoogled-chromium@ ModdIt
Thanks for the information on ungoogled-chromium.
I am running antiX 17, 32 bit, Stretch.
I explored the links, but could not find a download for 32 bit Stretch stable. I could only find the download for Buster. Buster will not work on my computer.
Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
Another option is to use seamonkey.
I finally got around to trying SeaMonkey.
Wow! What a nice surprise and discovery.
Compared to Firefox, it uses one quarter of the RAM and opens webpages twice as fast.
There is no question that this is the browser for my old laptops.
I may have some questions on the setup and usage, and if so, I will open another topic.Thanks again for the suggestion.
Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
Brian Masinick
It’s too bad that SeaMonkey has been forgotten. I don’t know if you remember Netscape or Mosaic, two of the early Web browsers. Mozilla was the company formed from the Netscape work. Netscape became SeaMonkey once it was redesigned.
SeaMonkey preceded Firefox and it contains both the browser and the Email client, plus a calendar.
Firefox and Thunderbird were created to provide separate services and they continue to evolve, whereas SeaMonkey maintains the same interface, therefore older, lighter and faster.
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Brian MasinickThanks for the history on SeaMonkey.
I used Netscape for a while back in the Windows 95 era.
From reading on the SeaMonkey website, it appears that some people are trying to breath new life into SeaMonkey with more frequent security updates and eventual expansion of add-ons capability.
Their efforts will be well appreciated.Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
Brian Masinick
I don’t expect that very much will be changed but it is a good thing that the project still exists for at least some legacy hardware.
It’s not fancy by today’s standards but it remains a very powerful network application with browsing, email and calendar capabilities.
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Brian MasinickJust a small comment on Firefox and Thunderbird were created to provide separate services.
Thunderbird still contained a fully functional browser, as far as I am aware that is still the case.
Brian Masinick
Just a small comment on Firefox and Thunderbird were created to provide separate services.
Thunderbird still contained a fully functional browser, as far as I am aware that is still the case.
Thunderbird definitely has a powerful HTML editor within the email program but pressing a link will trigger a web browser to open (usually Firefox, but that is configurable.
Thunderbird reads mail in a format that looks similar to a browser but other than rendering email HTML that is the extent of what it does to the best of what I have observed either in the application itself or in it’s description.
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Brian Masinickseaken64
SeaMonkey is my browser of choice. I am using it now. If I am not mistaken the calendar features were removed a few versions back. (Edit – Correction, Lightning (the Calendar) is included as an Extension) But there is a Mozilla Browser, email and newsgroups client, website/webpage Composer, IRC chat, and an address book. Uses legacy Firefox add-ons – I use NoScript with good success.
It has been the best browser for me on my 32-bit systems. I also have had fairly good results with Palemoon non-sse2 and Chromium. Firefox ESR also works in 32-bit.
As a side note – I recently got Gopher working with an add-on in SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey is still very useful. Hopefully it will remain that way.
Seaken64
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@ seaken64
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I have been using uBlock Origin add-on with SeaMonkey. It makes it even faster.
The add-on Cookies Exterminator also works well with SeaMonkey.Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
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