Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

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I don't either.
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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

#12 Post by rokytnji.1 »

Stevo wrote:Let me know if it works if you try it, I don't get much feedback for that particular version.
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Be patient and I will get back on this. Between new member support on the AntiX forum site. Anti's eudev test request. My trailer and motorcycle builds in the shop. My plate is really full lately Stevo. :bagoverhead:

But I will give feed back when I get time to do this. For sure.

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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

#13 Post by rokytnji.1 »

Ok. Break time from outdoor projects so here is feed back

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harry@biker:~
$ apt-cache policy palemoon
palemoon:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 27.7.2~repack-1~mx17+1
  Version table:
     27.7.2~repack-1~mx17+1 500
        500 http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch/main i386 Packages
harry@biker:~
$ which palemoon
/usr/bin/palemoon
harry@biker:~
$ locate palemoon
/etc/firejail/palemoon.profile
/usr/share/packageinstaller-pkglist/palemoon.pm
harry@biker:~
$ cd Downloads
harry@biker:~/Downloads
$ ls
palemoon-nonsse2_27.7.2~repack-1_i386.deb
With a Terminal Open. Conky and Icewm running. Palemoon is manageable as Qupzilla on this 1.2 ghz Pentium 3 IBM T23 laptop. Conky shows cpu usage at 50% after settling down from starting. Ram usage is not factor on this laptop because I run 1 gig of ram.

No adobe flash installed because of cpu limitations. Browsers crash when I have it installed.

Posting feedback in Palemoon presently. I think I have a new go to favorite browser on this Pentium 3.
:number1:

Thanks to Stevo. From the AntiX Team. Oh yeah. Just a little more info for you.

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root@biker:/home/harry# ps_mem.py
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used	Program

120.0 KiB +  42.5 KiB = 162.5 KiB	ifplugd
132.0 KiB +  53.0 KiB = 185.0 KiB	gnome-pty-helper
164.0 KiB +  34.0 KiB = 198.0 KiB	icewm-session
184.0 KiB +  36.5 KiB = 220.5 KiB	gpm
240.0 KiB +  35.0 KiB = 275.0 KiB	acpid
248.0 KiB +  55.0 KiB = 303.0 KiB	init
252.0 KiB +  95.5 KiB = 347.5 KiB	cron
168.0 KiB + 208.5 KiB = 376.5 KiB	startup
340.0 KiB + 107.5 KiB = 447.5 KiB	dbus-launch
328.0 KiB + 200.0 KiB = 528.0 KiB	udevil
396.0 KiB + 141.5 KiB = 537.5 KiB	rpcbind
496.0 KiB +  45.5 KiB = 541.5 KiB	rpc.idmapd
420.0 KiB + 243.5 KiB = 663.5 KiB	su
512.0 KiB + 264.5 KiB = 776.5 KiB	devmon
540.0 KiB + 332.5 KiB = 872.5 KiB	gconfd-2
320.0 KiB + 573.0 KiB = 893.0 KiB	avahi-daemon (2)
664.0 KiB + 268.5 KiB = 932.5 KiB	desktop-session
772.0 KiB + 203.0 KiB = 975.0 KiB	rpc.statd
920.0 KiB + 189.0 KiB =   1.1 MiB	sshd
664.0 KiB + 501.0 KiB =   1.1 MiB	at-spi2-registryd
  1.1 MiB +  62.0 KiB =   1.1 MiB	udevd
840.0 KiB + 354.5 KiB =   1.2 MiB	icewmbg
736.0 KiB + 497.0 KiB =   1.2 MiB	getty (6)
656.0 KiB + 596.5 KiB =   1.2 MiB	at-spi-bus-launcher
  1.1 MiB + 182.5 KiB =   1.2 MiB	bluetoothd
892.0 KiB + 414.5 KiB =   1.3 MiB	icewmtray
836.0 KiB + 590.0 KiB =   1.4 MiB	polkitd
  1.4 MiB +  76.5 KiB =   1.5 MiB	rsyslogd
924.0 KiB + 585.5 KiB =   1.5 MiB	dbus-daemon (3)
  1.3 MiB + 429.0 KiB =   1.7 MiB	console-kit-daemon
  1.6 MiB + 683.0 KiB =   2.2 MiB	dhclient (2)
  1.2 MiB +   1.2 MiB =   2.4 MiB	gksu
  2.5 MiB +  89.5 KiB =   2.6 MiB	wpa_supplicant
  2.5 MiB + 421.0 KiB =   2.9 MiB	cupsd
  2.2 MiB + 895.0 KiB =   3.1 MiB	slim
  2.6 MiB + 697.0 KiB =   3.3 MiB	bash (2)
  3.9 MiB + 848.0 KiB =   4.8 MiB	conky
  4.0 MiB + 965.5 KiB =   4.9 MiB	icewm
  4.5 MiB +   1.9 MiB =   6.4 MiB	wicd-monitor
  3.3 MiB +   3.2 MiB =   6.5 MiB	lxterminal
  5.7 MiB + 998.5 KiB =   6.7 MiB	wicd
 12.2 MiB +   4.4 MiB =  16.6 MiB	wicd-client
 14.1 MiB +   8.2 MiB =  22.3 MiB	volumeicon
 33.3 MiB +   7.2 MiB =  40.5 MiB	Xorg
146.7 MiB +   4.2 MiB = 150.9 MiB	palemoon
---------------------------------
                        300.6 MiB

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harry@biker:~
$

top - 13:00:18 up 39 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.35, 0.38, 0.43
Tasks: 139 total,   3 running, 136 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 30.4 us,  6.2 sy,  0.3 ni, 61.8 id,  1.3 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem :  1026564 total,   217672 free,   207164 used,   601728 buff/cache
KiB Swap:  2097148 total,  2096980 free,      168 used.   793764 avail Mem 

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                    
12357 harry     20   0  535168 167956  75068 S 18.0 16.4   4:02.65 palemoon                                                   
 2164 root      20   0  138268  56264  25072 R 11.1  5.5   2:33.17 Xorg                                                       
15226 harry     20   0   40920  19720  16824 S  5.2  1.9   0:00.88 lxterminal                                                 
15259 harry     20   0    5888   2784   2404 R  1.3  0.3   0:00.24 top                                                        
 2566 harry     20   0  111244   9708   7968 S  1.0  0.9   0:17.93 conky                                                      
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.48 ksoftirqd/0                                                
 2740 harry     20   0   28608   4900   4496 S  0.3  0.5   0:00.42 at-spi2-registr                                            
    1 root      20   0    3752   1764   1620 S  0.0  0.2   0:01.23 init                                                       
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd                                                   
    4 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.07 kworker/0:0                                                
    5 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0H                                               
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 R  0.0  0.0   0:03.72 rcu_sched                                                  
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcu_bh                                                     
    9 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0                                                
   10 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 lru-add-drain                                              
   11 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuhp/0                                                    
   12 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kdevtmpfs                                                  
   13 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 netns                                                      
   14 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 oom_reaper                                                 
   15 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 writeback                                                  
   16 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 crypto                                                     
   17 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd                                                
   18 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 bioset                                                     
   19 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd                                                    
   20 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_sff                                                    
   21 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 devfreq_wq                                                 
   22 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdogd                                                  
   24 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.49 kworker/0:1                                                
   26 root      20   0       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.49 kswapd0                                                    
   27 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 vmstat                                                     
   40 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthrotld 

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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

#14 Post by rokytnji.1 »

I forgot to mention. Before all of this and the install. I did a

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apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
as root in terminal so to have everything current before doing this tryout. Making sure libraries were as current as possible first.

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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

#15 Post by Stevo »

Thanks! So I guess either the antiX team could rebuild the nonsse2 version from the sources in my OBS repo, or just pull the deb and source files from the repo and copy those into the antiX repo. But I have those set to use the "obs" release, and I don't know if the antiX repo will handle that.

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#16 Post by mike lovin »

Stevo wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 4:16 pm https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/yo ... -supported

Your processor does not support SSE2, unfortunately. The standard Pale Moon browser in our repos also requires SSE2, but I build a palemoon-nonsse2 version in my separate, approved by the PM developers, OBS repository that should work on your system.

Add repo to your system:

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sudo echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/Debian_9.0/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/palemoon.list
Download and install the repo authorization key to your system:

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wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/Debian_9.0/Release.key -O Release.key && sudo apt-key add - < Release.key && rm -f Release.key

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install palemoon-nonsse2
But one of the mods needs to snip this section off into a new thread.

Hmmm...I wonder if antiX could use the nonsse2 browser in their repo.
I'm having the same issue with Firefox running a AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and MX Linux 18.3 32bit, does this fix still work?

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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

#17 Post by mmikeinsantarosa »

We don't have a non sse2 firefox so i'd persue palemoon. Steveo should see this and post. So standby...
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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

#18 Post by mike lovin »

mmikeinsantarosa wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2019 1:46 pm We don't have a non sse2 firefox so i'd persue palemoon. Steveo should see this and post. So standby...
Ok, I posted yesterday about Firefox not working with MX Linux 18.3 32bit on my machine, and Dolphin_Oracle suggested I try Palemoon from the repo, so I did, but it still didn't work, then I discovered this thread today but noticed it's over a year old. I hope this fix still works! :)

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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

#19 Post by Stevo »

No, Pale Moon started requiring SSE2 be enabled, or it would refuse to build at all, some time ago.

I don't know about Midori, though. It uses the libwebkit2gtk engine instead of a built-in one like Pale Moon. Maybe that would work.

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Re: Firefox does not start with Athlon XP CPU (Known Issue)

#20 Post by mike lovin »

Stevo wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2019 2:33 pm No, Pale Moon started requiring SSE2 be enabled, or it would refuse to build at all, some time ago.

I don't know about Midori, though. It uses the libwebkit2gtk engine instead of a built-in one like Pale Moon. Maybe that would work.
Ok thanks I'll try that. :)

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