Slow weekend, with me in an exuberant mood. Starting point, the thread about my rsync-3.1.2 crazy MD5sum:
< http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2016-February/077482.html > Ken's last remark in the thread (emphasizing my error:), "Alex - get yourself a better browser (or don't use it for downloading) ;-)", hurt a lot but it greatly helped as well by putting me in a mean, fighting spirit. I decided to rip into chrome/chromium browsers big time, by submitting Bug 591438: <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=591438> It all resulted in a long, bloody, hard-fought slug fest, the multi-billion behemoth against the little guy (with limited smackeroos) but with the unshakable belief that truth, honor and dignity (the RFCs too, I might add) were on his side. As in all good fairy tales, in the end the little guy fully prevails and the goliath finally admits and corrects the mistake (_quietly_, as is the want of many a proud fighter). Now, the Chrome, in all its incarnations (say > 50.0.2661.102) downloads any "gz" file one can throw at it beautifully with a perfect final size and check sum. As an additional note, there is now a new browser around, "vivaldi" (an Opera+, I'd say), with a lot of nice features (I would recommend it for 32-bitters like me - Chrome is no more). It so happens they use the Chromium (aka open Chrome) code as a base (unfortunately, with warts and all). I straightened them up too: < https://vivaldi.net/en-US/forum/all/9830-disadvantages-of-relying-too-much-on-chrome-chromium > so as of > 1.1.453.50 vivaldi is squeaky clean as well. Cheers and special thanks to Ken for his eagle eye and generous help, -- Alex
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