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firefox on a i486

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ristosu
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firefox on a i486

#1 Post by ristosu »

Has anyone tried firefox on a i486?

I did. It returns 1, after a short wait, without showing anything at all. firefox -V gives:

FIREFOX_DSP=
APPLICATION_ID=firefox
CMDLINE_DISPLAY=
DISPLAY=:0.0
REMOTE=0
TRY_USE_EXIST=0
OPTIONS=
DEBUG=0
DEBUGGER=
Running: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox -remote 'ping()'
PING_STATUS=2
Cleaning user profile
Running: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox

I had a similar problem with mozilla on woody. That's why I upgraded to sarge... The package is mozilla-firefox_1.0.4-2sarge5_i386.deb.

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Humbletech99
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#2 Post by Humbletech99 »

that's strange because It shouldn't make any difference if it's an i486 or i686 since I believe all Debian packages are compiled for 486 upwards.

Did you apt-get the firefox?

are you running 3.1 stable?

try doing an apt-get remove firefox followed by an apt-get update and apt-get install firefox and see if that sorts your problem.

ristosu
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#3 Post by ristosu »

Yes, yes.

I tried to remove/re-install, it made no difference. Anyway, thanks for your interest.

The package name says that it should work even on an i386, but if there is i586 assembly code in the sources... I don't know, I think it would crash in that case, now it just exits.

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#4 Post by Humbletech99 »

when you say i486, I take it mean the original pentium?

according to website, firefox's minumum requirements are pentium II so maybe this is a problem.

ristosu
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#5 Post by ristosu »

Less than that, the original Pentium is i586, Pentium II is known as i686. I'm afraid I'm alone still trying to use these machines :(

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#6 Post by Humbletech99 »

have you tried using another browser, maybe konqueror or opera or something?

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#7 Post by ristosu »

I installed dillo, it works and is fast, but doesn't support frames.

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