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Post by mog on Apr 14, 2021 16:00:42 GMT
Hi All, again,
I wonder if it's possible to install Falkon Browser in Bodhi? I used this browser with bionicpup32 and although not perfect it allowed me to play youtube videos with little or no hesitation, impossible in Firefox with only 2GB of Ram.
Thanking you in advance.
mog
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Post by Hippytaff on Apr 14, 2021 16:30:17 GMT
Hi mog
It appears to be in the Ubuntu repo, so you can install by opening terminology and doing
Or the gui way.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 14, 2021 17:13:03 GMT
I wonder if it's possible to install Falkon Browser in Bodhi? I used this browser with bionicpup32 and although not perfect it allowed me to play youtube videos with little or no hesitation, impossible in Firefox with only 2GB of Ram. Thanking you in advance. mog FYI, two ways to search for apps not listed in Bodhi AppCenter are included with bodhi. One is Synaptic which you can find in your start menu (enter password, click search, type in falkon), the other is APT (advanced package tool) from command line, i.e.: apt search falkon
90% of the time things I expect are there and named what I expect. To verify a guess is right before installing it without searching:
apt show falkon
Of course hippytaff already gave you an install command for your case, this info is more for future reference.
But I have much better solution for youtube, I can play 720p on my pentium 4 with 512mb that can barely do 360p in a browser... plus no ads.. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt install smtubesmtube.orgIn settings the default is 360p and I suggest you bump that up to 720p. By default it plays videos with mpv; I get even better performance with vlc. If you want to try that, after installing vlc, go to smtube settings, change the vlc entry to allow it to play videos (check the box) and it'll use it instead. I also add --qt-minimal-view to the vlc command line but that's personal preference; you can also set that permanently in vlc itself but I only want it that way when called by smtube. I do change the vlc setting to not resize for each video tho, again personal preference. You'll see other media player choices there too if you dont wanna install vlc but happen to have smplayer or something installed, give it a try if mpv isnt perfect for you already. (By better performance, I mean by watching cpu usage while playing HD video, mpv will sometimes peg at the 100% rail; vlc somehow manages to stay down around 70%). The reason this works better than in browser is because browser doesnt use the h264 or mpeg decoding offered by your GPU. Youtube by default uses VP9 encoding or something that only new video cards can decode in hardware, plus hardware acceleration on browsers under linux is not very reliable on most old video cards even when it is a supported codec For better video performance in general in a browser tho, look for 'h264ify' plugin. It will tell sites you cannot play VP9 and most will fall back to h264 or mpeg 2 or 1. Also, setting your user agent to appear as android/mobile, you get faster loading mobile versions of sites. There are browser add-ons that let you toggle back and forth as desired and remember site specific user agents if you don't like changing it manually. |
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 14, 2021 17:59:56 GMT
Regarding lighter browsers, I personally use palemoon on my old single-cpu machines. Its not ultra-light or anything, still opens everything firefox/chromium can (unlike most lighter browsers that struggle with certain sites), but it does use ~75mb less memory than firefox to open bodhilinux.com,for example, and is half the install size. sudo apt install palemoon
Also, adblockers help! I reccommend ublock origin which is available for firefox, palemoon, chromium, and more... Here's palemoon version: github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases Open that page with palemoon then click on the xpi under assets, it prompts you to install automatically.
If you wanna try to monitor what's going on, the two main things I pay attention to are cpu usage and used memory. If you want to install tools to see those displayed in real time :
sudo apt install lxtask
That is a very simple light Task Manager GUI. On my single cpu low memory machines I consider it an essential tool to understand how resources are used.
Alternatively or additionally, for use in tty or terminal (or terminal window):
sudo apt install htop
htop offers has a lot more options and displays each cpu seperately, but not as simple (and GUI looking) as lxtask.
If instead (or additionally) you want something more full featured with logging etc graphs an all that, the GUI by gnome has all those bells-and-whistles:
sudo apt install gnome-system-monitor
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Post by Hippytaff on Apr 14, 2021 18:02:10 GMT
Sorry, yeah, I wasnt very comprehensive, was on the move, so I cut to the chase 🙂
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 14, 2021 18:35:48 GMT
Sorry, yeah, I wasnt very comprehensive, was on the move, so I cut to the chase 🙂
I also have a habit of thinking of "one more thing" to add over and over. I didnt start out so comprehensive either  |
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Post by mog on Apr 15, 2021 15:46:38 GMT
Hello to you both, and thanks for the responses. Playing videos from a USB is no problem, MPlayer does it faultlessly, it's on line streaming (?is that the term?) from youtube, I sort of follow a couple of orchestras, one is hr symphonieorchester which is Radio Frankfurts orchestra, they have a presence on youtube and indeed produce quite a few videos to stream(?). It was for this purpose I was asking about Falkon Browser.
I shall look into the suggestions you both have given me and let you know how I get on.
Many thanks
mog
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Post by mog on Apr 27, 2021 16:19:44 GMT
OK People,
I have installed Falkon Browser, it is not the most up to date version, that is 3.1.0 this one is 3.0.0 but I can live with that.
How did I do it? I hear you ask, it is in the Synaptic Package Manager so easy peasy. I think it was you enigma9o7 who suggested to look in there but nonetheless thank you to you both.
How well does it perform? Well there is hesitation but it is much better than Firefox, and I can live with that, aren't I just such an equanimical sort of bloke!
Once again my thanks
mog
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 27, 2021 20:32:20 GMT
Great! Version 3.1 is in fact available for Bodhi 6 so in the future if you install a newer bodhi version, newer falkon will be available, but seems they didn't backport it for ubuntu 18.04 base so not easily available for Bodhi 5.
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