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Sindi wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > Mozilla says linux Firefox 2 needs gtk+2 and
> > libstdc++ 5
>
> That's for the official precompiled binary.  There
> are non-official binaries with different dependencies.

DSL 4.3 (kernel 2.4.31) has a Firefox/Bon Echo 2 which uses versions 1.2 
of libdtk libgdk libgmodule libglib and version 5 of libstdc++.so.5.  DSL 
needs at least 32MB RAM but probably more to load Firefox (which took so 
long to load I thought it was not there, even on my fastest computer with 
1GB RAM).  Simpler to use DSL if you need Firefox than change all the BL 
libraries.  But DSL CD won't work with lucent internal modem, only 
hardware modems.

Slackware 11 with default fwm loaded a blank grid instead of the firefox 
1.5.0.7 that it came with.

> > I found a firefox-1.5.tar.gz 8MB at fileshack.com.
> > Could be a Windows version (no linux in filename)?
> If it is a Linux version, most likely gtk2.

It is listed as a linux version.

> There is an early gtk1 Firefox available for download
> at some sites -- version 1.5.0.1 or 1.5.0.3 or something
> like that.  Keep in mind that Firefox 1.5 had a long run
> -- there were a lot of improvements and bug fixes between
> 1.5.0.3 and 1.5.0.12.  It is definitely worthwhile using
> 1.5.0.12, rather than an early 1.5 or early 2.0 (which
> actually predated 1.5.0.12).

Could you package all the libraries required by Firefox that are not 
present in BL3 as a complete add-on, that could be used with the base BL3 
install-to-hd for people who mainly just wanted a 'modern' browser?
I would add it to a fresh BL3 install in another partition, and keep BL2 
for normal use and chroot to use Firefox when Opera failed.

> Cheers,
> Steven