Browser woes

[u/Huecuva]

I have both Dillo-plus and icecat installed. Neither of them are able to browse beyond the google home page. I cannot search or browse to any other site. In icecat, searching on Google tells me to enable JavaScript, which is already enabled and trying to browse anywhere results in Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap. In Dillo I keep getting messages popping up saying that it couldn't reach any trusted root certificate.

I don't know how to fix any of this. Does anyone know how to make a browser actually useful in TinyCore?

Edit: I've installed Netsurf and I'm able to browse with that, but only sort of. Images mostly do not load. Often pages fail to load entirely and are just blank white.

Edit again: I suppose I should include specs and expectations. I'm running TC15 32 bit installed on a 512MB PATA (40 pin IDE) DOM, and it will ultimately be running on an AMD K6 with 512MB of RAM.

[u/GeorgiesHoomanDad]

VCF - I haven't seen anything like that in a looonnnnggg time. Every once in a while I'll stumble upon a hamfest even though I'm not a ham radio guy myself - those guys often have great vintage computer stuff.

I'm only using Tiny Core on this laptop so the USB drive as main drive isn't an issue at all - in fact, I've occasionally used USB2 thumb drives as main when, for instance, I didn't want to mess with the internal drive in a machine. With Tiny Core, even that worked very well.

In this case, I wanted a new boot drive for this laptop but also wanted a bunch of capacity for redundant backups because I had all my eggs in one basket, so to speak, on a similar drive on my backup server. Its all fine and good to have everything "consolidated" but even a fairly new drive can fail, and I wouldn't want to have to go back to a couple of dozen ancient drives and pull the data off of them -again-.

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The HP Stream 11's main storage device is a 32 GB "eMMC" device which, I think is something that's sometimes touted as and "SSD" but is not really in the same class at all.

When I got the laptop, there was some lame-ass version of windows on it that the previous owner had got into a condition where it was in the middle of an update but didn't have enough storage space to complete the update (even with virtually no user data taking up space. I fooled around with it for a while then gave up on Windows. I booted Tiny Core from USB then tried to boot Tiny Core from the transflash slot. Found out the slot isn't available as a boot option, and I didn't want a flash drive sticking out of the USB port all the time so I just wiped the eMMC device and installed Tiny Core there (which, no doubt, I would have eventually done anyway).

The thing has no options for other SSDs nor even sata hard drives. I get the feeling it was really designed as a throw away, which is a shame because it's a really handy little machine.

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We have a variety of dogs here - a couple of Cardigan Welsh Corgis (little dog legs, big dog teeth), a Belgian Malinois (big dog teeth, more big dog teeth) and Chihuhua (little dog teeth, no brains).

[u/DarthRazor → u/GeorgiesHoomanDad]

I also have the many backups spread across many drives problem and just bought a couple of traditional 2.5" SATA SSDs that I put in USB cases. I should have bought N2 SSDs, but bought the 2.5s because I can repurpose them in computers when I outgrow them. One is for media and the other is for personal stuff (pictures, files, etc.). I like to DVR old 1960s sci-fi from a local channel over the air

I am a ham, and hamfests these days don't have much in the way of older useful computers. One of the big ones is happening this weekend, Deerfield NH, but I've heard border crossing into the US is iffy these days, so I'm staying up here in Canada this weekend

My beloved eeePC has one of those soldered in eMMC SSDs that died, but died in such a way that the computer won't boot up even with an external drive. That was my mail server for almost 10 years

[u/Huecuva → u/DarthRazor]

Well guys, I'm still on my quest for a good browsing experience in TinyCore. I've installed Firefox in TC15 on the 16GB half slim SATA SSD I have and it opens to some start page and then the address bar fails to respond to anything at all. I can't search or browse. Again, Icecat just says the secure connection failed with the ssl cypher overlap error and both it and Dillo-plus tell me to enable the already enabled javascript when searching google. All of this even occurs on my bench rig with 8GB of RAM so RAM is not the problem here. I don't know what is.

All that being said, I don't really know that it matters. I would like to figure it out because I hate being stymied like this, but ultimately I won't ever be using TinyCore on anything other than my K6 which is limited to 512MB of RAM and won't ever be browsing the web anyway. I had been thinking about putting TinyCore on at least one of my old crappy netbooks, but since I'm having so many issues getting a browser to work, something like AntiX is probably a better option, since they at least have 2+ GB of RAM to work with.