SlimBoat browser

[xman]

Forum search didn't find anything of SlimBoat browser: http://www.slimboat.com/en/

Old XP needs a lightweigth browser such as Trident based SlimBrowser made by FlashPeak. SlimBrowser is for Windows but now FlashPeak is developing SlimBoat for Linux, Mac and Windows. SlimBoat is a lightweight Webkit browser. I have very bad feelings about Webkit based Midori, but still I have to test SlimBoat.

There is 32bit and 64bit Ubuntu versions of SlimBoat, but I am not so familiar with Webkit, so I tested exe version in Racy 5.3. Wined SlimBoat had same problem as it has in Windows OS: It won't open https sites.

Edit: 2nd try in Windows with portable 1.1.4 and now I can open Gmail and other https sites.

Anyone tried Ubuntu version?

Edit: Xth try and Ubuntu 32bit Slimboat 1.1.11 works in Precise-5.4.1.1 after two packages installed:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/l ... 0/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/l ... 0/download

[darkcity]

Interesting find, is it open source, it only say freeware license.

What the difference between SlimBoat and SlimBrowser?

[xman]

What the difference between SlimBoat and SlimBrowser?

FlashPeak Inc. is developer of both Slims, but SlimBrowser uses Internet Explorer's proprietary Trident layout engine, and SlimBoat uses open source Webkit layout engine. SlimBrowser is over ten years old veteran but SlimBoat is a newcomer. SlimBrowser is for Windows only, SlimBoat is for Windows, Mac and Linux.

[darkcity]

Thats interesting, I hadnt heard of another company using Internet Explorers layout engine.

[xman]

I wrote about https sites as SlimBoat showstopper. I have to draw back my words. Second try was more succesful. I downloaded portable SlimBoat for Windows to Windows and extracted it. Gmail and other https sites are working now.

Thats interesting, I hadnt heard of another company using Internet Explorers layout engine.

Yes, there is some lightweight and fast Trident based browsers such as SlimBrowser, GreenBrowser and Avant Lite. I prefer SlimBrowser. Some browsers can use Trident and one or two other layout engines (Webkit, Gecko): Maxthon, Sleipnir, Avant and Lunascape. Even Chromium and Firefox and their variants can use Trident with IE tab extension.

[xman]

As I considered earlier, there have been some ssl issue: FlashPeak updated SlimBoat to 1.1.5 and fixed ssl library issue.

SlimBoat 1.1.5 uses QtWebkit 4.7.4.0. I have tried earlier other QtWebkit browser, Nokia QtWeb, but QtWeb had problems to save browser settings or bookmarks and so on. SlimBoat is better and highly configurable. There is possibility to import bookmarks from Firefox, IE or SlimBrowser. I imported bookmarks succesfully from SlimBrowser.

SlimBoat is not yet so polished as SlimBrowser but they are close.

[starhawk]

QtWeb is IIRC rather independent of Nokia.

SlimBrowser sounds useful, once they finish polishing it.

[drongo]

Don't know if this is relevant/of interest/off topic.

There was a minimal browser for XP called OffByOne.

It is not maintained but you can still download it.

It understands text, pictures, CSS etc.

It doesn't do anything with Javascript so is no good for most interactive sites.

I can't remember if it understood Flash/MPEG-2 etc.

Not available for Linux but it might work in Wine.

[xman]

QtWeb is IIRC rather independent of Nokia.

SlimBrowser sounds useful, once they finish polishing it.

Yes, maybe I exaggerate when I said that Slims are close together. SlimBoat can be described early alpha, while SlimBrowser is super stable. SlimBrowser is only browser which can open and play Silverlight videos in my old XP laptop. Flash performance is also best but not great.

Ubuntu version isn't directly Racy compatible: Deb installs but Slimboat don't open in Racy.

I did some more dirtywork with wine and 32 bit Slimboat exe in Racy. I installed flashplayer 10.3.183.25 for Windows to play flash videos. Test video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmIByrcwAQ, is very nice but flash crashes if I try play it full screen. Not a big problem, zoom works lovely.

[Okeh]

I'm running Slim Browser on MacPup on a very old Toshiba Tecra. That's because I need a reasonably functional browser. So far it runs quite fast, but it will crash when trying to download files. This is too bad since it is the fastest browser going on this machine with the exception of Puppybrowser, and more functional - when it works.

As a "webkit" browser, is there anything else that I should install? There are no missing dependencies.

[xman]

Warning! MacPup is an exception. Ubuntu Slimboat does not start on Slacko, Racy or Precise. I also tried it on Linux Mint: no problem, deb installs and Slimboat plays well. So, for most Puppies Slimboat browser needs some compiling effort to be an lightweight alternative for old machines.

[xman]

No more black screens and hard boots after trying to start Slimboat. Yes, I got Slimboat-1.1.11 to work in Precise-5.4.1.1.

Only two packages was needed: libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.28-1_i386.deb and libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.28-1_i386.deb, 622KB and 337KB.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/l ... 0/download

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/l ... 0/download

[kent]

I'm running Slim Browser on MacPup on a very old Toshiba Tecra. That's because I need a reasonably functional browser. So far it runs quite fast, but it will crash when trying to download files. This is too bad since it is the fastest browser going on this machine with the exception of Puppybrowser, and more functional - when it works.

As a "webkit" browser, is there anything else that I should install? There are no missing dependencies.

download libs from http://www.slimboat.com/tmp/libs/libs.tar.gz
and extract it to ./slimboat

[Okeh]

Thanks for this.

I installed the libs to the Slimboat directory. I have it in /root/slimboat116/slimboat/

If I run slimboat.sh in terminal, I get this:

/root/slimboat116/slimboat/slimboat.sh: line 13: 12759 Segmentation fault $dirname/$appname "$@"
Script completed hit RETURN to close window.

If I run slimboat, I get this:

/root/slimboat116/slimboat/slimboat: error while loading shared libraries: libQtWebKit.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Script completed hit RETURN to close window.

Help!

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[kent]

Thanks for this.

I installed the libs to the Slimboat directory. I have it in /root/slimboat116/slimboat/

hi, please download newest slimboat version. 1.1.17 from http://www.slimboat.com/en/dlpage.php

[jrb]

Warning! MacPup is an exception. Ubuntu Slimboat does not start on Slacko, Racy or Precise.

Hi xman, Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I just downloaded slimboat_i386.tar.xz from http://www.slimboat.com/en/dlpage.php and installed it with the builtin install script to Slacko 5.4. It refused to install until I used PPM to install gst-plugins-base-0.10.36-i486-2.txz and its dependencies. Then it installed fine.

I did a test download which worked and I'm typing this reply in it right now. So far I'm quite impressed. Will let you know if any problems arise.

Thanks again, J

[stvjhson]

I installed SlimBoat Web Browser in Precise puppy 5.4.3 and got it to run after putting together some additional supporting libraries.

However, I do get ssl certificate errors when I browse https sites. I don't get the same issue when I run it on ubuntu. Do you get the same problem?

I took a look under /etc/ssl/certs of puppy and found it is empty. I guess there are no root certificates included with Precise puppy, which SlimBoat seems to depend on? Is there any package I can get to install these root ssl certificates?

Warning! MacPup is an exception. Ubuntu Slimboat does not start on Slacko, Racy or Precise.

Hi xman, Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I just downloaded slimboat_i386.tar.xz from http://www.slimboat.com/en/dlpage.php and installed it with the builtin install script to Slacko 5.4. It refused to install until I used PPM to install gst-plugins-base-0.10.36-i486-2.txz and its dependencies. Then it installed fine.

I did a test download which worked and I'm typing this reply in it right now. So far I'm quite impressed. Will let you know if any problems arise.

Thanks again, J

[jrb]

However, I do get ssl certificate errors when I browse https sites. I don't get the same issue when I run it on ubuntu. Do you get the same problem?

I took a look under /etc/ssl/certs of puppy and found it is empty. I guess there are no root certificates included with Precise puppy, which SlimBoat seems to depend on? Is there any package I can get to install these root ssl certificates?

Yes, I do get those error messages, Quite annoying. I have done a bit of googling but come up with no solutions.(other than turning off the warning messages in Tools-Options.)

Did you find anything in /etc/ssl/certs in Ubuntu? I'm afraid I don't really understand the ssl system. Maybe someone with more knowledge could help out? Might have to post it as a new thread in the Users forum.

[Okeh]

I installed 1.1.18 and the libs in the libs directory under Slimboat. Still doesn't run.

Using Macpup 5.2.8

[jrb]

I installed 1.1.18 and the libs in the libs directory under Slimboat. Still doesn't run.

Using Macpup 5.2.8

You have to start slimboat with the slimboat.sh script in the /slimboat directory. It calls the attention of the OS to /slimboat/libs

If any of the dependencies libs are not being found then you can reboot or load the devx.sfs for your puppy and type

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ldconfig

at the command line.