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Dave Yeo

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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #240 on: February 21, 2025, 06:56:19 am »
I lost track of which build I was using and reverted to what I had backed up which cured the crash.
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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #241 on: February 22, 2025, 04:39:36 pm »
The Qt5 Dooble is simple, download, ftp://dry@ftp.os2voice.org/tmp/dooble-2024-01-09-Qt5.zip unzip and use, or first install the rpm, latest is in the Arca exp repository that you should have access to as a tester. The zip is newer and can jsut replace the rpm binary. There is also some updated Qt5 DLL's to fix the Window Title in other locales in the same directory, only works with the latest.
For Qt6, you need Paul's Qt6 stuff installed, see https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,3252.0.html which includes Martins script for starting Dooble.
Blocklist and filters are in the dooble directory on the same site if you want to install them for ad blocking.


With the "simple download" and QT from Arca Noae/Netlabs release, some websites work. This one, https:\pge.com, gives a blank page. Because many modern websites yield a blank page under both dooble and firefox, I thought I'd ask if there is something I can do to get a page like this to render?
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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #242 on: February 22, 2025, 06:04:01 pm »
Well https:\pge.com will never render, https://www.pge.com/ almost works fine in SeaMonkey here though I don't have an account to log in and the report outages thingy fails. Dooble_Qt5 does work better and seems functional.
The Qt6 Dooble uses a newer Webengine and will display more sites but both are based on old Chromium versions and will fail on sites that expect the latest. Sometimes changing the user agent helps, funny enough I use Dooble_Qt5's user agent in SM sometimes and pages start working. Still there's a lot of newer JavaScript stuff that our old browsers won't display.
Edit: adding that Dooble_Qt5 has a bug where often the 1st tab displays a blank page, open another and try again.
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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #243 on: February 22, 2025, 06:07:37 pm »
Why does pge.com render for you, and not for me?

Does something on-disk get corrupted? Should I delete .dooble from the Home directory?
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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #244 on: February 22, 2025, 06:10:36 pm »
FWIW,

After correcting the URL, the PGE site seems to render fine with both firefox and dooble5.  I've not tried dooble6.  Both the firefox and dooble.  This box is not quite fully updated.  Both browsers are not the most recent versions.

With firefox, I typically recommend testing with a fresh profile, just in case.


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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #245 on: February 22, 2025, 07:18:32 pm »
Why does pge.com render for you, and not for me?

Does something on-disk get corrupted? Should I delete .dooble from the Home directory?

Always worth trying a new profile. I prefer moving it out of the way for testing purposes.

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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #246 on: February 23, 2025, 01:41:38 am »
FWIW,

After correcting the URL, the PGE site seems to render fine with both firefox and dooble5.  I've not tried dooble6.  Both the firefox and dooble.  This box is not quite fully updated.  Both browsers are not the most recent versions.

With firefox, I typically recommend testing with a fresh profile, just in case.

Thanks! I had not bothered to check with Firefox for several years. The pge.com website had not worked for a long time. Today it works in Firefox. They do fix these websites, apparently, sometimes.

After succeeding in Firefox, I tried agian in dooble, but this time I deleted %HOME%\.dooble. Dooble is able to operate the website, aslo.

I'm sorry to have to delete my profile all the time, but since dooble does not have much for bookmarks and nothing for passwords, deleting the profile doesn't have much of a downside.
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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #247 on: February 23, 2025, 03:44:40 am »
Hi Neil

You could try exporting your whatever browser current bookmarks to eg bookmarks.html then open that html file in dooble - Voila! bookmarks!
Come to think of it do *not* save the bookmarks.html to the .dooble directory because dooble will not let you open files in that directory.


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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #248 on: February 23, 2025, 04:00:20 am »
I can't recall the last time I had to completely delete a production profile in firefox or dooble.  There have been a few times that I needed to restore the profile from a backup.

I use rsync with a few filters to exclude the cache directories and other transitory data such as firefox telemetry pings which is of no use to us.

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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #249 on: February 23, 2025, 07:00:23 pm »
For the Mozilla apps, I keep the cache on the ramdisk and regularly use rsync to backup my profile, keeping 2 generations. I also haven't had to restore a profile in ages.
For Dooble, I turn on wal (write ahead logging) which in theory should help with crashes corrupting the profile.
To turn on wal, run this sh script in your profile,
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ls *.db | while read filename;
  do sqlite3 $filename 'PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL;';
done;

to turn off

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ls *.db | while read filename;
  do sqlite3 $filename 'PRAGMA journal_mode=delete;';
done;

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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #250 on: February 24, 2025, 04:58:04 pm »
I tried dooble and firefox on archive.org. Each gives a blank page. I also deleted the .dooble directory again, and dooble still shows a blank page.

Thanks for the shell suggestion. Worth trying if I can get a reliable test scenario.
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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #251 on: February 24, 2025, 05:34:15 pm »
Dooble, both Qt5 and Qt6 display archive.org fine here.
I recently zapped my profile and let Dooble create a new one. After I did disable WebGL and WebRTC, both in settings at the bottom of Web. Don't forget to press Apply after changing.
I also imported both ftp://dry@ftp.os2voice.org/dooble/dooble_accepted_or_blocked_domains.zip and ftp://dry@ftp.os2voice.org/dooble/dooble_filter.zip (unzip first) using Tools-->Accepted / Blocked Domains and then the import button. Doubt that made much difference for archive.org but may have.

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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #252 on: February 24, 2025, 08:35:07 pm »
I tried dooble and firefox on archive.org. Each gives a blank page.

I typed "archive.org" into Dooble/QT5 and got a blank page from http://archive.org. When I changed that to https://archive.org the page came up immediately.
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Re: Dooble releases, Qt5 builds
« Reply #253 on: April 06, 2025, 07:38:04 am »
I've uploaded ftp://dry@ftp.os2voice.org/tmp/dooble-2025-04-05-Qt5.zip it's sort of experimental, had to revert a change I made to avoid dooble_settings.db being written to the root of the drive that was active when dooble was launched. Something to watch for.
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« Reply #254 on: April 06, 2025, 07:11:24 pm »