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All credit should go to fredx181 who developed the technique and MikeWalsh who aided especially in its popularization.

This post provides the files relating to a 64-bit 'mozilla' web-browser. Files for a 32-bit are found here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 670#p61670

I'm sure I previously posted about creating a portable --IIRC, an 'old' firefox-- by simply downloading a tar.gz from the original publisher's repo, extracting it, and adding to the extracted folder 'extralibs' and the script to start the browser so that it would use them.

But I can't find that post. I figured a post containing the name 'extralibs' would be helpful.

You can obtain the package here, https://www.mediafire.com/file/u570edon ... ar.gz/file. Download and extract it.

The package contains the extralibs folder, the afore-mention script and instructions. Also included is a pet to create a menu entry for the Waterfox-Classic web-brower, if run as a portable from /mnt/home. You can deconstruct it and use it as a template for any other web-browser-portable from anywhere.

Depending on your Puppy and your choice of web-browser, gtk3 libs may be required. Best obtained via your Puppy's package manager. Otherwise, ask.

But I can't find that post.

I know you did because I followed the post's instructions and made one which is still being used on a Bionic64-8.

Could it be this post you are looking for? https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=8330#p8330

@rockedge, Well, turns out that had the post been found I'd still would have provided a new package. The post you found on the old forum provided a link to a different post from which the extralibs package could be downloaded. The link between those posts is broken: well, the link isn't to the correct post.
Those posts concerned 32-bit firefoxes. That package didn't include a pet to create menus. Only providing 32-bit libs I guess it was small enough to be included as an attachment. [The first place I looked for it was on my mediafire account and was surprised by its absence].

The new package has 64-bit libraries.

As the 32-bit package on the old forum is MIA, I've attached a replacement.

The libs are the same as those found in fredx181 & MikeWalsh's 'mozilla' portables from which they were flinched. So, if you already have one of those you can save yourself the time and bandwidth of downloading and extracting. Just copy the extralibs folder you already have into the 32-bit portable you are building.
There's also a launcher-script named 'gl' --generic launcher . When you open it in a text editor you'll find that the operative command line reads:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LAUNCHDIR/:$LAUNCHDIR/extralibs${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH} "$LAUNCHDIR/NAME-OF-BINARY" "$@" -profile "$LAUNCHDIR/profile"

Edit that to supply the actual name of your web-browser's binary. You can also change the script's name.

As the more detailed instructions here, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 5e2a#p8330 and here, viewtopic.php?p=61613#p61613 indicate, the extralibs folder and the launcher-script are placed within the web-browsers folder, i.e. where the binary is located.