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ggc

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Registered: 2016-01-24

Posts: 35

Curiosity - Browsers, SSE and SSE2

Hello everyone,

i've just installed Q4os 2.6 on a really old Pc with an Amd Duron 850 MHz (in my plans, i was ready to donate it to my town's library)

Everything worked rather fine, much better than expected. Congrats to q4os developers for this .

But i've seen that browsing isn't possible with Konqueror on many pages (gmail for example), and both Firefox and Chromium won't work on this machine due to the lack of SSE2 instructions in the cpu.

Meanwhile i've found a p4 2.8 GHz that works even better (even if it sucks even more power, the Duron about 100 Wh, the p4 even 160 Wh...) but i would be pleased to know if there a currently supported browser for non sse2 cpus, i've seen there was a palemoon non-sse version but not updated anymore.

I've searched in this forum without finding a solution. And i repeat, only as curiosity, the problem is solved .

Thank you in advance.

Here are the Amd Duron 850 Specs:

$ inxi -F
System:    Host: duron850 Kernel: 4.9.0-8-686-pae i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine:   Device: desktop System: Olidata S.p.A. product: N/A
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: <A7V-M> v: REV 1.xx
           BIOS: Award v: ASUS A7V-M 1001B date: 10/06/2000
CPU:       Single core AMD Athlon (-UP-) cache: 256 KB speed: 857 MHz (max)
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV5 [Riva TNT2 / TNT2 Pro]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1680x1050@59.88hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI nv05 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+
           GLX Version: 1.2 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card VIA VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller driver: snd_via82xx
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.0-8-686-pae
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
           driver: 8139too
           IF: enp0s15 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:02:44:8b:f9:08
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 20.5GB (19.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Maxtor_32049H2 size: 20.5GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 18G used: 2.9G (18%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 0.99GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 48.9C mobo: 28.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 5532 fan-2: 0
Info:      Processes: 135 Uptime: 7 min Memory: 207.0/497.1MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.5

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

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Re: Curiosity - Browsers, SSE and SSE2

You could still try to install Palemoon and check, if it works. Download installer from here https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/f … erimental/ . It's easily possible to proceed clean uninstallation from the start menu, if required.

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

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Re: Curiosity - Browsers, SSE and SSE2

We have just tested the latest Palemoon 28.2.1 on a non SSE CPU i386/32bit computer, and it worked fine. You only need to use the installer from here https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/f … erimental/

ggc

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Registered: 2016-01-24

Posts: 35

Re: Curiosity - Browsers, SSE and SSE2

Tried too. Unfortunatly the scripts installs Pale Moon, but when i try to run it, i get

$ palemoon
Istruzione non consentita

Illegal instruction.

Maybe the Amd Duron lacks others instructions, i don't know.

Anyway no problem, and thank you for the reply!

Keep up the great work.