On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:57:54 -0500 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
>On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:37:06 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > >> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 10:02:59 -0500 >> >> Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> >Greetings all; >> > >> >Trying to find a web browser that actually works here. iceweasel has >> >been so emasculated that it asks about flash everytime, bringing up a >> >requester that has a button labeled "allow and remember", but it >> > doesn't remember, you have to do it for every flash presented. Half >> > of the time you click on it, the site has timed out, so you hit >> > reload hoping you can click the ok quick enough to make it work THIS >> > time. Usually it doesn't, so you never get to read or see that >> > story. >> > >> >And some news sites stories links are totally ignored, and some get >> >a "request entity to large" whatever the heck that is. >> > >> >So I installed googles chromium, but it crashes and you have to use >> > the reload button, hundreds of times a day. >> > >> >Konqueror is as emasculated as iceweasel. >> > >> >So I downloaded the vivaldi-beta deb, and tried to use apt-get to >> >install, but that spit out several dozen pages of E: lines and >> > didn't. >> > >> >So I stepped into the deb with mc, and copied its contents to the >> >directories it would have been put in, even ran the postinst thing. >> >Didn't run from a cli. >> > >> >Poking around in the installed stuff, I find an invalid link >> >in /opt/vivaldi-beta/libwidevinecdm.so to >> > /opt/google/libwidevinecdm.so, on checking that I find I don't have >> > it, as the google stuff in /opt is, and I quote >> > "/opt/google/fucked-google" which is an empty directory! >> > >> >Does anyone have a clue what that is all about? googles idea of an >> >easter egg that disappears if you register chromium which I assume >> > turns it into chrome? >> > >> >Comments please, and what browser are you all using that doesn't >> > hassle the user to death, it Just Works, like firefox did 3 years >> > ago. >> > >> >Thanks all; >> > >> >Cheers, Gene Heskett >> >> Best thing I have found is a fork of firefox called Pale Moon. It uses >> some of the plugins and extensions from firefox, but around version >> 25. I installed it over a month ago, and have not had a crash since >> then. >> >> http://www.palemoon.org/ > >Downloaded and installed the installer to my /home directory. On running >it I am unable to progress beyond the download of the tar.bz2, which I >have now done twice because after the download, the installer can't find >it! > >Why? Because it asks for my sudo password, and when iceweasel downloads >it, iceweasel is running as a sudo root, and puts the download >in /root/Downloads. It cautions about running the installer as root in >the readme's it showed me a few times. I have no access to the tarball >as me, so whats next? > >Thank you. > >Cheers, Gene Heskett Throw that installer back in your /home. Run it as non-root, move the first window out of the way, and click on install. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com]
