Light, a light firefox

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cstkingkey
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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tukusejssirs wrote:I have just read about the Light (for I search the Web how to make ff lighter). I have not read all the 10+ pages of this forum, so maybe this could have been answered. But could you tell me, how did you build the Light? I mean what options did you include? I would like to build mine (I need to be able print, e.g.). Btw, I am a Linux user (if you have different options for different OS's). Thank you in advance.


You can find the available options in configure.in. And you need fix the builds with some options.
tukusejssirs
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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thanks - I have missed that file in your sourceforge :)
fraterlinux
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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Hi

I use PCLinuxOS. I installed today Light 37 smoothly. However, it does not start, showing an error. What could be wrong?
shown below error:

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$ light 

(process:5441): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

Segmentation fault

Is there a forum or technical support IRC for Light?

Thanks,

FraterLinux
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cstkingkey
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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fraterlinux wrote:Hi

I use PCLinuxOS. I installed today Light 37 smoothly. However, it does not start, showing an error. What could be wrong?
shown below error:

$ light

(process:5441): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

Segmentation fault

Is there a forum or technical support IRC for Light?

Thanks,

FraterLinux


any other error messages?
fraterlinux
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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I686 RPM versions I've tried and do not work: 36, 36r2, 37r2 by an error segmentation fault.
Libraries loaded by version 37:

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$ ldd /usr/local/bin/light 
   libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0xb770e000)
   libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7709000)
   libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7616000)
   libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0xb75c9000)
   libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb75aa000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0xb73e0000)
   /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb774b000)


The 35r3 version fine work in PCLOS:

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$ ldd /usr/local/bin/light 
   libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0xb76d5000)
   libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb76d0000)
   libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb75dd000)
   libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0xb7590000)
   libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7571000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0xb73a7000)
   /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7712000)


The i686 RPM of Light is a static compilation to work on any Linux with RPM? Has a terminal command to try to find out why the segmentation fault error? You compiled with that dependencies version 36 and 37 ???
cstkingkey
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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fraterlinux wrote:I686 RPM versions I've tried and do not work: 36, 36r2, 37r2 by an error segmentation fault.
Libraries loaded by version 37:

Code: Select all

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/light 
   libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0xb770e000)
   libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7709000)
   libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7616000)
   libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0xb75c9000)
   libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb75aa000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0xb73e0000)
   /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb774b000)


The 35r3 version fine work in PCLOS:

Code: Select all

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/light 
   libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0xb76d5000)
   libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb76d0000)
   libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb75dd000)
   libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0xb7590000)
   libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7571000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0xb73a7000)
   /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7712000)


The i686 RPM of Light is a static compilation to work on any Linux with RPM? Has a terminal command to try to find out why the segmentation fault error? You compiled with that dependencies version 36 and 37 ???

I'm not familiar with linux. light 37 is compiled by gcc 5.0
fraterlinux
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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The 35r3 works. How was compiled? As modified that broke the package in 36 and 37 ???

PCLOS has gcc 4.9.2 package. You could find help in forum advanced Linux user to optimize compilation to work on any linux? Depending on how you do the build will not run on Linux distributions. I am an ordinary Linux user, I do not know how to help him. I liked a lot of Light, very fast, low memory usage. Compatible with ADDONS and functional. I would like to use the new versions as they are released ...
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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Does Light block attack sites and web forgeries like Firefox?
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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Does Light block attack sites and web forgeries like Firefox?
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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Does Light block attack sites and web forgeries like Firefox?
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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Does Light block attack sites and web forgeries like Firefox?
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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Does Light block attack sites and web forgeries like Firefox?
cstkingkey
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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greyowl2 wrote:Does Light block attack sites and web forgeries like Firefox?

No
paulnaveda
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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I am a great fan of your project. My compliments! Light runs smoothly on my machine. I'am running it on a windows 7 machine and it responds much quicker than the fully bloated firefox build.

There is however one thing I would like to ask. It does not remember any username or password of the websites I have to login to. Is that correct? For me, that is a bit awkward. Is it possible to change the configuration in order to make it remember the usernames and passwords? If so, could you give me a hint where to look? Thanks!

Cheers,
Paul
greyowl2
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Re: Light, a light firefox

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cstkingkey wrote:
greyowl2 wrote:Does Light block attack sites and web forgeries like Firefox?

No


Thanks for the clarification.

I really like Light and appreciate your work

I have one problem however. It does not always remember my session even though I have it set to open previous session. Is this something that can be corrected?
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