On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:54 -0700, Andrew Brookins wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Michael M. Moore<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I tried the vimperator Firefox extension for a while. There were things > > about it I really liked, but it makes working with most of Google's > > services very difficult -- something about all the frames GMail, > > GCalendar, GReader, etc., use. In the end, web browsing is probably one > > thing that a mouse is somewhat useful for. > > Vimperator is great. One way to get around key conflicts with Google > apps is to create separate instances of them using Prism, which is > another Firefox plug-in. I have Gmail and GCalendar "prism apps" that > open as separate instances of Firefox (actually xulrunner) with > vimperator disabled.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it out, but it didn't work for me, for reasons I couldn't quite be sure of. I think the reason might be that I don't have 32-bit libraries installed (and don't particularly want them installed). There's a message on the Mozilla Wiki Prism page to that effect: "NOTE: "bash: ./prism: No such file or directory" error on 64-bit Linux (Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon) occurs if you do not have the "ia32-libs" package installed. Installing the package with "sudo aptitude install ia32-libs" resolves the issue." I'm using 64-bit Debian (Squeeze) rather than Ubuntu, but I'm guessing the problem is the same. Nevertheless, you gave me an idea -- I can use Epiphany for Google services, effectively using Epiphany in the manner that you are using Prism apps. I'd rather do that than install a mess of 32-bit libraries I don't need for anything else, and I already have Epiphany installed. I don't know why I didn't think of that before. > On a somewhat related topic, I read that an unstable build of Chrome > is available for Linux > (http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel). On other > operating systems, Chrome will let you convert a web site into a > standalone application, so maybe it will do so on Linux. Of course, > there is no vimperator for Chrome... yet. ;) The key word there being "unstable" :-) I read that it is as yet quite a ways from being usable on Linux. The vimification project continues. -- Michael M. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
