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> I found at the MYSDL repository (ibiblio) which has lots of programs
>
> firefox-2.0-gtk1.uci from 2005  Bon Echo 2  9.8MB
>
> Compiled to use less resources than the official version (GTK2?).
>
> Can we get files out of a .uci 'mountable extension' to use with BL?

Don't know yet.  firefox is included in DSL 4.3 and later.

> I will try copying them to a mounted hard drive while running the live CD.

I was able to copy files from the running live CD to my BL partition.

Firefox 2.0 (bon echo, 2006) is 'installed' to /usr/local/share/firefox 
with a wrapper script in /usr/local/bin, but can be started from the 
former with ./firefox (another wrapper script).  You might even be able to 
copy all the .so libraries to /usr/lib and start with firefox-bin.

cd /usr/local/share/firefox
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt  (assuming BL2 is hda1)
sudo mkdir /mnt/firefox-2.0-dsl  (or just firefox if you don't have 1.5)
sudo cp -a * /mnt/firefox-2.0-dsl/

sudo reboot (or exit) and boot into BL
startx (Xvesa worked)
cd /firefox-2.0-dsl
./firefox

Loads and appears to work fine.  Same dependencies as Firefox 1.5 - gtk, 
gdk, libglib, libgmodule, libgcc but libstdc++ 5 (same as Seamonkey) 
rather than version 6.  My firelibs.tgz package has both.

You can also, as a test, copy to a USB flash drive, ignore comments about 
permissions not being preserved, and run it from there.

Firefox 1.5 has a mozilla start page (big) and 2.0 a dsl start page 
(small) so it is hard to compare memory usage.  While the page was loading 
1.5 used 3.4% and 2.0 used 2.5% of RAM, I think.

I set them both to start with a blank page but Bon Echo still starts with 
the DSL page.  Cleared cache in Bon Echo and Deerpark after going to 
about:blank. 3.5% memory for Bon Echo (Firefox 2.0) and 2.9% for Deerpark. 
When I load mozilla.com they both go up by the same amount.

DSL tried to compile to minimize resource usage.

I ran across discussions of how Firefox (1.5, 2?) keeps using more and 
more memory.  Suggestions are to clear history list frequently.
And change various settings.  Set memory cache to a fixed (small) 
amount using about:config (you can adjust only disk cache size with 
preferences).  4MB if you have 256MB memory, and if you have less get more 
memory, it suggests.  Plugins take up memory (don't use them on an old 
laptop, or disable when not in use).  Don't use themes.

Set it to release memory when firefox is minimized (see various websites 
for how).

When Bon Echo (DSL) loads it 'checks for compatibility updates to your 
extensions'.  It uses the plugins in /root/.mozilla which Firefox 1.5 also 
uses. So if you copy Firefox 2 to a computer with 1.5 you will retain any 
plugins installed to 1.5.  (For seamonkey 1.1.x I had to copy the contents 
of three directories).  More plugins work with 2.0 than 1.5.  And later 
versions (such as adblock - Firefox 1.5 uses 0.7.5.5 and Seamonkey 1.1 a 
later version 1.02 that will also work with Firefox 2.0 (I just checked).

Click on Tools, Extension/Add-ons, Updates (or Get Extensions).
Plugins like mplayer are apparently a special category of add-ons.

Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 Updates both found the same Adblock Plus 1.02 update
but 1.02 does not work with Firefox 1.5 so this feature is not helpful.
When I updated Adblock Plus with 2.0, it got disabled in 1.5 (message at 
startup about this).  It makes a HUGE difference if you browse with images 
turned on.

Seamonkey 1.1 is based on the same code as Firefox 2 but works with fewer 
extensions.  Such as transliterator.

So far Firefox 2 has not crashed.

Page Down is not working for either version (down arrow is) and you need 
to click three times to expand lists.

> I also want to try in BL their version of DILLO, to which they somehow
> added frames and SSL, not found in the official version.  (Which needs the
> X11 headers to compile, along with precompiled FLTK toolkit).

DSL 4.3 uses dillo 0.8.5 gtk1.
DSL dillo 'could not find any fonts' when used with Xvesa.
The dillo 0.8.6 that I compiled and posted finds its fonts.
0.8.5 uses version 1.2 of libgtk/gdk/glib/gmodule also png jpeg

The latest dsl dillo I think is fltk version.  I don't have it yet.
When downloading large files with lynx you need TWICE as much free space 
as the file requires because it gets saved in /tmp and then copied to 
where you request.  I ran out of hard drive space on the laptop.
/tmp is emptied when you exit lynx.  Do the largest download first.

> Sindi Keesan