Afternoon, one and all.
This is my first post here, although I suspect it won't be the last.
I'm a long-term Chrome user; ever since it was in beta back in 2008, in fact. I fell in love with its speed and simplicity.....although it, like so many other browsers, has turned into a lumbering 'super-tanker' due to all the additional security features that have needed to be added over the years.
Originally an XP user, for the last couple of years I've been happily running 'Puppy' Linux, and currently multi-boot around a dozen of the little darlings. Puppy has, until fairly recently, been 32-bit only, mainly because it targets elderly hardware; 64-bit 'Pups' are a fairly recent addition. I re-package the 64-bit versions of Chrome into the SFS 'load-on-the-fly' package format that Pup uses.
Since Google dropped support for 32-bit Chrome, we've been experimenting, on the Puppy Forum, with various other Chromium-based alternatives. We've developed a liking for FlashPeak's Slimjet browser.....but it has
one major flaw.....it doesn't support NetFlix. (FlashPeak don't integrate the necessary h264 support into Slimjet.....for 'copyright' reasons!) Iron, however,
does. It also has a somewhat different interface, despite being a Chrome 'clone'; the tabs are reminiscent of pre-Australis FireFox! (Ugh!!)
I run two elderly machines; a 12-yr old Compaq desktop PC (pre-HP buyout, so of amazing build quality, and still going strong).....and a 14-yr old Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop.
I wanted to say 'Thanks!' for the current version of Iron. It is finally enabling me to run a bang-up-to-date Chromium 'clone', even on older Puppies with very much older versions of the glibc....all on very elderly hardware. Current versions of Chromium will no longer run on older 'Pups', as it's been compiled against a much more recent version of the 'C' library.
We're using the .deb package, extracting, correcting the permissions for Pup's unique method of operation (it runs as root!!), then re-packaging into the SFS package format. And it runs
perfectly.
Cheers! Much appreciated.
Mike.
