Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-09-10 Thread David Halko
 Sorry for the late repsonse, Jerry.


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 I think that it would be difficult for me to pose a legitimate argument
 to your statement, but, for those of you running OpenIndiana on your
 desktop, or Solaris, or one of the many open Solaris based distro's, how
 many of you are running a current, or close to current copy of Firefox
 and/or Thunderbird?

Whenever I do a Solaris install, the FIRST thing I do is go to
sunfreeware.com or unixpackages.com, download the latest version of Firefox
and install it. I just did this under Solaris 10 Update 10 on SPARC under a
week ago.

After that, I wait until a user in the community complains, then I upgrade
all 300 virtual desktop instances with the latest version of Firefox that I
can. (I still have 2 VDI hosts running Solaris 9, unfortunately. They get
what they get.)


 None of those are compiled by Mozilla personnel, although they are
 distributed on the Mozilla site.  All of the current *Solaris stuff is
 in the contrib section, and has been for some time.

 Jerry


We need to keep our development resources out of this area of compiling
individual packages and keep professional packagers doing this for us. It
should be their day job. Their time is worth every penny.

This is the instanity of a packaging system for every distro. SVR4 can
download packages from a network stream directly, SVR4 can natively handle
custom methods (like compression) without source-code change, it has stood
the test of time, and packages have been available for our consumption for
decades.

If we need an update, then we should pay for an update, if we don't want to
spend our own time, or we should compile it and contribute it, and maybe
ask for a credit! ;-)

 Thanks - Dave
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:

I was at a presentation yesterday evening about google drive, and tried it 
out on my OI environment today.


It seems that not having Chrome on OI, or the special Google Drive software 
GDrive, limits the experience significantly.. Lots of Drive Apps require 
Chrome and those that do sort of work on Firefox seem to have problems being 
made available for the Open With menu on Google Drive, or even accessing the 
Drive for storing results.


Has anyone found  a way to integrate Google Drive neatly into an Open Indiana 
environment? Or can this be expected to be easier in the future?


Unless Google Chrome is made completely available as free open source, 
including all mutimedia players, and with a way to disable Google's 
proprietary trackers, it should be seen as an outright assault on 
Solaris and its derivatives.


Google's ploys for encouraging the installation and use of Chrome 
(displacing Firefox) are downright shameful.


Yesterday I was using a Ubuntu Linux system remotely.  I clicked on a 
link and a window popped up asking if I wanted to make Chrome my 
default browser and if I wanted to start Chrome.  There was no way to 
quit this window other than 'xkill' (Window manager buttons disabled) 
and no way to select a different browser.


Likewise, on a Windows VM with limited storage allocation, I installed 
Adobe Reader.  The installation process also installed Google Chrome 
(1.2GB of precious space) at the same time with no indication that it 
was going to do such a thing and no apparent way to opt out.


Now Adobe is ditching Flash except for from within Google Chrome. 
Adobe has become allied with Google and is transferring its various 
monopoly powers (Flash and Acrobat Reader) to Google.


Google is rapidly becoming the next Microsoft.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
That all might be the case but I happen to like a lot of the google services! 
And their integration too. If you differ, use other services ;)
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Robbie Crash
Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every
single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good customer
service.

Chromium is fully open source. The difference is that Google Chrome is a
customized Chromium build. The same as the build on Ubuntu is different
than the build on Windows. The differences are outlined here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome. If
you're on a system with Chrome installed, you can either launch it
incognito, which disables all their 'proprietary trackers', or you can
disable all of them through settings.

If the Ubuntu system you were on had no way to select a different browser,
that would be something the system was having an issue with. Sounds like
there wasn't another handler installed for http links.

Chrome is only 1.2GB of space when you have multiple versions installed, so
Adobe Reader didn't install it at that point, it would've been installed
previously, and Reader MAY have upgraded it when you agreed to install
Chrome when you agreed to download the Reader installer. It's very clear on
the screen, it has a picture of Chrome, the Chrome logo, a highlighted box
that says Yes, install Chrome as my default browser and Google Toolbar for
Internet Explorer – *optional*. (28.4 MB) Install
Optionshttp://get.adobe.com/reader/
.

Adobe ditched Flash for Android, not for anything else. And really, that
was for the best, Flash sucks on Android. Google's inclusion of Flash is no
different than the builtin PDF reader or the built in MP3 codec, they're
common enough things to be included by default. It's just one plugin that I
don't have to go and install myself after the fact.

Google has some significant issues, their data collection being the most
obvious. But to say that they're acting anything like MS did in the 90s is
ridiculous.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Bob Friesenhahn 
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:

 On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:

  I was at a presentation yesterday evening about google drive, and tried
 it out on my OI environment today.

 It seems that not having Chrome on OI, or the special Google Drive
 software GDrive, limits the experience significantly.. Lots of Drive Apps
 require Chrome and those that do sort of work on Firefox seem to have
 problems being made available for the Open With menu on Google Drive, or
 even accessing the Drive for storing results.

 Has anyone found  a way to integrate Google Drive neatly into an Open
 Indiana environment? Or can this be expected to be easier in the future?


 Unless Google Chrome is made completely available as free open source,
 including all mutimedia players, and with a way to disable Google's
 proprietary trackers, it should be seen as an outright assault on Solaris
 and its derivatives.

 Google's ploys for encouraging the installation and use of Chrome
 (displacing Firefox) are downright shameful.

 Yesterday I was using a Ubuntu Linux system remotely.  I clicked on a link
 and a window popped up asking if I wanted to make Chrome my default browser
 and if I wanted to start Chrome.  There was no way to quit this window
 other than 'xkill' (Window manager buttons disabled) and no way to select a
 different browser.

 Likewise, on a Windows VM with limited storage allocation, I installed
 Adobe Reader.  The installation process also installed Google Chrome (1.2GB
 of precious space) at the same time with no indication that it was going to
 do such a thing and no apparent way to opt out.

 Now Adobe is ditching Flash except for from within Google Chrome. Adobe
 has become allied with Google and is transferring its various monopoly
 powers (Flash and Acrobat Reader) to Google.

 Google is rapidly becoming the next Microsoft.

 Bob
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
I was staying out of this, honestly I was ...

 Adobe ditched Flash for Android, not for anything else. And really, that
 was for the best, Flash sucks on Android. Google's inclusion of Flash is no
 different than the builtin PDF reader or the built in MP3 codec, they're
 common enough things to be included by default. It's just one plugin that I
 don't have to go and install myself after the fact.

https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Linux Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey (Flash Player 11.2 is the last
supported Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to
provide security updates.)

Solaris Flash Player 11.2.202.223 is the last supported Flash Player
version for Solaris

Umm it has dropped

 Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every
 single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good customer
 service.

This is a personal preference only!  There are no hallmarks, or tests
that can say which is a better browser.

I have Chromium installed on my Ubuntu at home, and it stays updated
via the Ubuntu Package manager, but I _always_ use Firefox as my
browser because of AdBlock+ and additional plugins, that is
_my_preference_!

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Robbie Crash wrote:


Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every
single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good customer
service.


I have used both and the user experience seems very similar to me. 
There are a few web sites which refuse to offer multimedia to Linux 
FireFox (even though it is technically capable) but offer it to 
Chrome.  Presumably this is due to the contractual agreements between 
Google and the many thousands of web sites which are allied with them 
because of Google's monopoly position on the Internet.



Chromium is fully open source. The difference is that Google Chrome is a
customized Chromium build. The same as the build on Ubuntu is different


Customized apparently means offers a lot more essential stuff. 
Hardly anyone is using Chromium.



If the Ubuntu system you were on had no way to select a different browser,
that would be something the system was having an issue with. Sounds like
there wasn't another handler installed for http links.


This was obviously a Google-supplied dialog window.  It interjected 
itself into the OS dialogs when it was installed.  There are plenty of 
other browers on the system.



Chrome is only 1.2GB of space when you have multiple versions installed, so
Adobe Reader didn't install it at that point, it would've been installed
previously, and Reader MAY have upgraded it when you agreed to install
Chrome when you agreed to download the Reader installer. It's very clear on
the screen, it has a picture of Chrome, the Chrome logo, a highlighted box
that says Yes, install Chrome as my default browser and Google Toolbar for
Internet Explorer – *optional*. (28.4 MB) Install
Optionshttp://get.adobe.com/reader/


There was no mention of Chrome at the time.  The installation was on a 
a from-scratch Windows install.



Adobe ditched Flash for Android, not for anything else. And really, that
was for the best, Flash sucks on Android. Google's inclusion of Flash is no


Adobe ditched the Flash plugin for Linux and Solaris, in part due to 
their contracts with Google.  It may still work today but will be 
worse than useless in less than a year.



Google has some significant issues, their data collection being the most
obvious. But to say that they're acting anything like MS did in the 90s is
ridiculous.


Google has built up a huge position on the Internet and billions of 
people only experience the Internet by launching from Google.


Regardless, I am not seeing that Chromium is available for Solaris.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Robbie Crash
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.comwrote:

 I was staying out of this, honestly I was ...

  Adobe ditched Flash for Android, not for anything else. And really, that
  was for the best, Flash sucks on Android. Google's inclusion of Flash is
 no
  different than the builtin PDF reader or the built in MP3 codec, they're
  common enough things to be included by default. It's just one plugin
 that I
  don't have to go and install myself after the fact.

 https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

 Linux Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey (Flash Player 11.2 is the last
 supported Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to
 provide security updates.)

 Solaris Flash Player 11.2.202.223 is the last supported Flash Player
 version for Solaris

 Umm it has dropped


Yeah, my bad. I was only referring to the within Chrome part, rather than
their actual dropping of supported platforms. They've dropped support for
all mobile everything as well. But, they're not updating the Linux version
in Chrome either. It's not that Adobe is only updating for Chrome, they're
only updating for their supported platforms, and Google is bundling it into
Chrome.




  Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every
  single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good
 customer
  service.

 This is a personal preference only!  There are no hallmarks, or tests
 that can say which is a better browser.


It's demonstrably more stable, faster and uses less resources. However,
this seems to only be on Windows from what I'm reading now, so maybe ignore
that comment since I pretty much only use Windows on the desktop.



 I have Chromium installed on my Ubuntu at home, and it stays updated
 via the Ubuntu Package manager, but I _always_ use Firefox as my
 browser because of AdBlock+ and additional plugins, that is
 _my_preference_!


Fair enough. Although, AdBlock+ and NoScript and such are also available in
Chrome.


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Francois Dion
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote:
 I was staying out of this, honestly I was ...

 Adobe ditched Flash for Android, not for anything else. And really, that
 was for the best, Flash sucks on Android. Google's inclusion of Flash is no
 different than the builtin PDF reader or the built in MP3 codec, they're
 common enough things to be included by default. It's just one plugin that I
 don't have to go and install myself after the fact.

 https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

 Linux Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey (Flash Player 11.2 is the last
 supported Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to
 provide security updates.)

 Solaris Flash Player 11.2.202.223 is the last supported Flash Player
 version for Solaris

 Umm it has dropped

I posted yesterday about this on the solaris-x86 list. BTW,
11.2.202.228 is the last player for solaris (bundled in
fp_11.2.202.228_archive.zip). 202.223 is not available for download.

Francois

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)

On 15/08/2012 17:53, Francois Dion wrote:


I posted yesterday about this on the solaris-x86 list. BTW,
11.2.202.228 is the last player for solaris (bundled in
fp_11.2.202.228_archive.zip). 202.223 is not available for download.


And if you look carefully inside that package, you only see
the 202.223 solaris version, not a 228, as it pretends.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
 
 Yeah, my bad. I was only referring to the within Chrome part, rather than
 their actual dropping of supported platforms. They've dropped support for
 all mobile everything as well. But, they're not updating the Linux version
 in Chrome either. It's not that Adobe is only updating for Chrome, 
 they're only updating for their supported platforms, and Google is bundling 
 it into
 Chrome.
 

Once I had some free time and I tried to build chromium with everything.
Well, their multimedia support comes from ffmpeg, which is capable to play
flv files and many other things. BTW, compilation of the ffmpeg part failed 
althougt there is no problem with pure ffmpeg. So maybe it was a patched
version.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Robbie Crash
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn 
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:

 On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Robbie Crash wrote:

  Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every
 single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good customer
 service.


 I have used both and the user experience seems very similar to me. There
 are a few web sites which refuse to offer multimedia to Linux FireFox (even
 though it is technically capable) but offer it to Chrome.  Presumably this
 is due to the contractual agreements between Google and the many thousands
 of web sites which are allied with them because of Google's monopoly
 position on the Internet.


More likely it's based on the fact that the websites are built to work with
IE than with anything else and the builtin support in Chrome for
proprietary file types handles those links, where as Firefox requires
additional extensions. Such as mp3 handling, supported by Chrome by
default, but handled by the native application in Firefox if there's one
registered. Same thing as how on Windows if you have QuickTime installed,
Firefox plays mp3s with that rather than downloading the file.




  Chromium is fully open source. The difference is that Google Chrome is a
 customized Chromium build. The same as the build on Ubuntu is different


 Customized apparently means offers a lot more essential stuff. Hardly
 anyone is using Chromium.


Customized means it includes proprietary filetype handling, and includes
usage stats and the other things listed on the differences page I linked to.




  If the Ubuntu system you were on had no way to select a different browser,
 that would be something the system was having an issue with. Sounds like
 there wasn't another handler installed for http links.


 This was obviously a Google-supplied dialog window.  It interjected itself
 into the OS dialogs when it was installed.  There are plenty of other
 browers on the system.

The do you want Chrome to be your default browser windows was undoubtedly
a Google window, the lack of ability to choose a different browser isn't
something that a browser should typically be able to do. I just built and
tested this on an Ubuntu VM with Chrome and Firefox installed as default,
and links opened in Firefox. When I launched Chrome by hand, it did ask if
I wanted to use it as default. Selecting no, links still opened in Firefox.
The behaviour you're seeing is not normal.



  Chrome is only 1.2GB of space when you have multiple versions installed,
 so
 Adobe Reader didn't install it at that point, it would've been installed
 previously, and Reader MAY have upgraded it when you agreed to install
 Chrome when you agreed to download the Reader installer. It's very clear
 on
 the screen, it has a picture of Chrome, the Chrome logo, a highlighted box
 that says Yes, install Chrome as my default browser and Google Toolbar
 for
 Internet Explorer – *optional*. (28.4 MB) Install
 Optionshttp://get.adobe.com/**reader/ http://get.adobe.com/reader/


 There was no mention of Chrome at the time.  The installation was on a a
 from-scratch Windows install.

The mention of Chrome is on the
http://get.adobe.com/**reader/http://get.adobe.com/reader/ page
when you go there through IE. Downloading Reader from elsewhere, or through
alternate browsers does not offer Chrome, but instead offers McAfee AV if
you visit through Chrome, and nothing if you go through Firefox. But in IE,
I assure you it's there, and from what I can tell, not installed in any
other way.




  Adobe ditched Flash for Android, not for anything else. And really, that
 was for the best, Flash sucks on Android. Google's inclusion of Flash is
 no


 Adobe ditched the Flash plugin for Linux and Solaris, in part due to their
 contracts with Google.  It may still work today but will be worse than
 useless in less than a year.

 Adobe abandoned Linux and Solaris. Google is supporting Flash on Linux
through PPAPI. Google is helping in this situation, not hindering, by
offering an avenue to have updated Flash support. Adobe has always been
awful at supporting Flash on Linux. I don't understand what rationale
Google would have to say to Adobe We don't want you supporting the
platform you barely support, we'll do that for you.



  Google has some significant issues, their data collection being the most
 obvious. But to say that they're acting anything like MS did in the 90s is
 ridiculous.


 Google has built up a huge position on the Internet and billions of people
 only experience the Internet by launching from Google.

People go to Google because it offers the best service. The majority of
people's initial browser launch doesn't start at Google. It starts at MSN
or Apple, people then choose to go to Google. Simply being dominant in the
market doesn't mean you're being anti-competitive or shitty.



 Regardless, I am not seeing that Chromium is available for Solaris.



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Jerry Kemp


On 08/15/12 10:02 AM, Robbie Crash wrote:
 Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every
 single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good customer
 service.

I'm not going to argue with you here, but I will say that my experiences
have been the opposite.  At least on the Mac (Chromium vs. Firefox).

Regardless, options are good.

 
 Chromium is fully open source. The difference is that Google Chrome is a
 customized Chromium build. The same as the build on Ubuntu is different
 than the build on Windows. The differences are outlined here:
 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome. If
 you're on a system with Chrome installed, you can either launch it
 incognito, which disables all their 'proprietary trackers', or you can
 disable all of them through settings.
 

FWIW, back in April 2011, some guy named ruben did a successful compile
of Chrome and put his URL up on the desktop-discuss list.  The body from
his email message is posted below.

Don't bother clicking the link, his stuff is gone now.  You could
probably find his site on the Wayback machine if you really wanted to.

Anyway, for those of you who remember the follow on discussion, it
wasn't one of thanks for your hard efforts.  Several people posted
messages of distrust because the package(s) were not available from
Google, Illumos or Sun/Oracle, or a site they were familiar with.

It was a sad discussion to observe, and I felt bad for the guy who
jumped through all the hoops he did get get it working.

Jerry




...

 Hello, I recently ported Chromium 10, the open source base of the
 current Google Chrome 10 stable browser, to Solaris 5.11 snv_151a. A
 test build for i386 is available here:

 http://chromium.hybridsource.org
 
 There are a couple issues I'm still ironing out, as written in the
 notes.  Thanks to James Choi for his early patches from last year that
 got this Solaris port going. 


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Robbie Crash
That IS unfortunate, but sensible. Things are shitty now. You need to not
trust people.

I don't trust code I either can't see, or in the case of Windows, know that
they have more to lose than they have to gain by fucking me over.
On Aug 15, 2012 10:02 PM, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote:



 On 08/15/12 10:02 AM, Robbie Crash wrote:
  Chrome/Chromium is a better browser than Firefox in essentially every
  single way. Promoting a better browser is not shameful, it's good
 customer
  service.

 I'm not going to argue with you here, but I will say that my experiences
 have been the opposite.  At least on the Mac (Chromium vs. Firefox).

 Regardless, options are good.

 
  Chromium is fully open source. The difference is that Google Chrome is a
  customized Chromium build. The same as the build on Ubuntu is different
  than the build on Windows. The differences are outlined here:
  http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome. If
  you're on a system with Chrome installed, you can either launch it
  incognito, which disables all their 'proprietary trackers', or you can
  disable all of them through settings.
 

 FWIW, back in April 2011, some guy named ruben did a successful compile
 of Chrome and put his URL up on the desktop-discuss list.  The body from
 his email message is posted below.

 Don't bother clicking the link, his stuff is gone now.  You could
 probably find his site on the Wayback machine if you really wanted to.

 Anyway, for those of you who remember the follow on discussion, it
 wasn't one of thanks for your hard efforts.  Several people posted
 messages of distrust because the package(s) were not available from
 Google, Illumos or Sun/Oracle, or a site they were familiar with.

 It was a sad discussion to observe, and I felt bad for the guy who
 jumped through all the hoops he did get get it working.

 Jerry




 ...

  Hello, I recently ported Chromium 10, the open source base of the
  current Google Chrome 10 stable browser, to Solaris 5.11 snv_151a. A
  test build for i386 is available here:

  http://chromium.hybridsource.org
 
  There are a couple issues I'm still ironing out, as written in the
  notes.  Thanks to James Choi for his early patches from last year that
  got this Solaris port going.


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-08-15 Thread Jerry Kemp
I think that it would be difficult for me to pose a legitimate argument
to your statement, but, for those of you running OpenIndiana on your
desktop, or Solaris, or one of the many open Solaris based distro's, how
many of you are running a current, or close to current copy of Firefox
and/or Thunderbird?

None of those are compiled by Mozilla personnel, although they are
distributed on the Mozilla site.  All of the current *Solaris stuff is
in the contrib section, and has been for some time.

Jerry


On 08/15/12 09:30 PM, Robbie Crash wrote:
 That IS unfortunate, but sensible. Things are shitty now. You need to not
 trust people.
 
 I don't trust code I either can't see, or in the case of Windows, know that
 they have more to lose than they have to gain by fucking me over.
 
 

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