Re: Firefox 31

[email protected] wrote:
> ** Reply to note from [email protected] Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:02 +0000
>>   

As Salaam Aleikum!

> 
>> What's the URL for getting this animal, i.e. FF31? And what more  software does She need to install it? As I'm running
>> WSeB, She thinks  that the gcccore(sp?) is installed, but can She get info which build it  is? The last package that was
>> downloaded is GCC-3.3.5-csd6.zip, but is  there a newwer version out there? Perhaps the Warpzilla can get info on  this
>> as well on freetype, exceptq and other stuff that's needed for  getting FF31 working? And can it use the old profile data
>> that FF  17.0.1ESR uses or must it be converted? In the README.OS2 for FF45 there  was some dire warnings about
>> compatability with the old .sql files  that FF 10.0.2 and 17.0.1ESR uses. Best would be if FF31 is compatible  with the
>> current .sql files, then it would only be to install,  eventually upgrading GCC and freetyp and then kick it off with a .cmd 
>> file. She's not acquainted with the Run! program, so She uses .cmd files  instead for launcing the various FF versions.
> 
>  http://wisdomtree.info/zsoft/os2/internet/browser/firefox-31.8en-USos2b5.zip
> 

Ok, so She downloads this file from the above URL and unzips it in it's 
proper place in the mozilla tree.

> No .cmd file necessary to start; firefox -P profilename in an object is sufficient. 
> 

But She may have to use a .cmd file to start FF31.8.en-USos2b26, 
especially if She also have SMPMW118 running. Currently, when She sees a 
link in Her mail,She copies it to the clipboard, close down SMPMW118 and 
then fires up FF - this ole' box only have 640Mib RAM but the new box 
have 4Gib RAM so the mailer and FF could be run 'in parallell' without 
any hassle if .cmd files are used for kicking them off.

> Get pmdll-2.12.zip likely from Hobbes. Run this against firefox.exe and it's dll files. Anything in red is missing. Write list
> of missing files and I will send them to you.
> 

Thank the Great Mother for that! Nowadays, hobbes can be reached by a 
web browser instead by NFTP/2 - NFTP has no search options but the 
web-based hobbes have a search function so searching for the 
abovmentioned tool should be a piece of cake :-)

> Have never tried to use a profile from prior version. Always made a new profile and copied over relevant files. It may
> function though.
> 

She has two profiles for FF 10.0.2 and FF 17.0.1ESR, one that requires 
Her to enter a password and one called 'newprofile' that don't requires 
any password. Here using for example the 'newprofile' against 10.0.2 and 
17.0.1ESR has given Her no troubles at all.

Bot when we are at the subject of profiles: Is there any way of syncing 
the profiles from the mailer and the various FF profiles WITHOUT having 
to store the profile data in the 'cloud'? She gets jumpy of putting such 
sensitive data in the cloud so every intelligence agancy like our 
Swedish FRA, the CIA, FSB and other interested parties can access my 
personal data. That's why She didn't buy a Huawei smartphone instead of 
the model She now have - a special smartphone which is designed to be 
easy to use by persons haveing sight and/or hearing impairments which 
She have. With a Huawei you don't know how many 'backdoors' the phone is 
programmed with which will send data to the Chinese intelligence 
services. She wants Her data on Her smartphone PRIVATE, not accessible 
by others She don't trust. Sharing data with persons She knows well is OK.


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