Re: Firefox 31

[email protected] wrote:
> ** Reply to note from [email protected] Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:02 +0000
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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
> 
> No .cmd file necessary to start; firefox -P profilename in an object is sufficient. 
> 
> 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.
> 

Ran pmdll against firefox.exe and up came a short list of dll's that 
firefox have, one is marked in red and is called gcc1.dll. The program 
DIDN'T walk down FF31 tree but only checked the dll's for firefox.exe.
And in the Select window you can't select all the dll's you wants to be 
checked, it only allows checking ONE entry in the dll tree! So what in 
the nine purple hells of Palain(*) is going on here? How does She do so 
that pmdll checks EVERY dll in the firefox tree?

On another tack: in the readme.os2 file for ff31 it is stated that for 
example libc-0.6.6-26.oc00.i386 is a RPM file with the extension of 
.rpm. But She don't have the rpm-yum package in the current OS She's 
running, WSeB, Can this file be downloaded as a .wpi file instead and 
using Warpin to install it? The same goes for several other things like 
freetyp6 are listed as rpm files. So must She install the latest rpm-yum 
package in WSeB or does these various files/libraries also exist as .wpi 
files? The last time She tried to install rpm-yum was a few years back 
and it failed to install. But ANPM is installed in eCs 1.2 so perhaps it 
will be better building FF45 with ANPM which will install the latest 
rmm-yum on the eCs 1.2 system. Then downlading these rpm packages that 
FF31 requires and just install them in their proper place in the FF31 tree

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

But is the format for the .sqlite files the same as these that FF10-0.2 
and FF17.0.1ESR uses? If so, FF31 can be called with the default profile 
which requirs a passord or with newprofile which don't need any password 
to be entered. But the first thing to do after FF31 is correctly 
installed is to start it, opening the notebook and walk through it, 
setting the desired preferences, save them and close down FF31 so the 
settings will take effect when FF31 is called up next time

(*) A wondeful spacman's oath from E.E. 'Doc Smiths Lensman series of books.


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