Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome as a browser ... I find Firefox so clunky now! :D Well . . . I have no idea what plans there are for updating the port, since I'm not the port maintainer for Chromium. On the other hand, 5.x is still smother and nicer than Firefox in many, many ways. The real limitations for Chromium are the restrictions that apply to extension development. If those restrictions don't really affect you, if for instance you don't care about vi-like keybindings and don't use KB SSL Enforcer on Chromium or HTTPS Everywhere on Firefox (so you don't care about the fact that Chromium's extension system limits KB SSL Enforcer's functionality so that it leaks data that should have been encrypted), then you could start using Chromium on FreeBSD now. Just install it from ports. I'm not *too* worried about getting the most up-to-date version of my browser, as long as the version I'm using doesn't have security vulnerabilities addressed in later versions, unless there is a specific feature I need. In this case, there *are* some specific features I want, features for extension development that should fix some of the flakiness of Vimium. Your mileage may vary, of course. I'm basically going back to using Firefox, after figuring out how to get Vimium installed (but not operating properly), I think. 5.x just doesn't support what I need, and I don't have the time and specific skills needed to submit updates to the port myself. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpoYJTlHDTLm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:55:41AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome as a browser ... I find Firefox so clunky now! :D Well . . . I have no idea what plans there are for updating the port, since I'm not the port maintainer for Chromium. On the other hand, 5.x is still smother and nicer than Firefox in many, many ways. The real s/smother/smoother/ oops -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp9dFsnfpBgD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:55:41AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome as a browser ... I find Firefox so clunky now! :D Well . . . I have no idea what plans there are for updating the port, since I'm not the port maintainer for Chromium. On the other hand, 5.x is still smother and nicer than Firefox in many, many ways. The real s/smother/smoother/ oops Fair enough I am semi-conscience of security, it's something I do keep in mind and I'm sure portaudit would complain anyway if I did install it ... that would make my e-mail's all the longer. I did come across wiki.freebsd.org/Chromium but it breaks at the patch and that's where I left it (for now) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD
Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 04 November 2010: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Vimium is one of several Chromium extensions that provide some vi-like keybindings, and arguably the one with the best vi-like experience. Unfortunately, it is not quite up to the standards of Vimperator on Firefox, but it is definitely better than nothing. Also unfortunately, it does not install on FreeBSD in its current official form. It only produces an error. I figured out why the version of Chromium in ports does not support the URL scheme wildcard: that was a feature of the matches value that was added in Chromium v6.x. Chromium is up to 7.x now, but the version in FreeBSD ports is still 5.0.x, so my ugly fix is necessary to make Vimium installable. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Works for me. Thanks, Chad! -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpn4fLcLFPjb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD
Last night, I decided to read a little bit about Chromium browser extensions, and peeked at the source for the Vimium extension to see what was wrong with it. Vimium is one of several Chromium extensions that provide some vi-like keybindings, and arguably the one with the best vi-like experience. Unfortunately, it is not quite up to the standards of Vimperator on Firefox, but it is definitely better than nothing. Also unfortunately, it does not install on FreeBSD in its current official form. It only produces an error. I cloned the GitHub repository to my laptop and figured out how to tweak it so that it *would* install, but it's an ugly (if simple) hack and not the right way to do things, I think. As such, it is not the sort of thing that is likely to be a good idea to submit upstream to the Vimium maintainer -- at least until I can determine *why* the official Vimium does not install on FreeBSD's Chromium browser port. If you want details about how I got Vimium to install, and on Vimium plus FreeBSD in general, I chronicled the experience in my personal devlog: http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2010.308.12.13.14 -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpGIBuLJr8HV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Vimium is one of several Chromium extensions that provide some vi-like keybindings, and arguably the one with the best vi-like experience. Unfortunately, it is not quite up to the standards of Vimperator on Firefox, but it is definitely better than nothing. Also unfortunately, it does not install on FreeBSD in its current official form. It only produces an error. I figured out why the version of Chromium in ports does not support the URL scheme wildcard: that was a feature of the matches value that was added in Chromium v6.x. Chromium is up to 7.x now, but the version in FreeBSD ports is still 5.0.x, so my ugly fix is necessary to make Vimium installable. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpbpemqKeh6O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Vimium is one of several Chromium extensions that provide some vi-like keybindings, and arguably the one with the best vi-like experience. Unfortunately, it is not quite up to the standards of Vimperator on Firefox, but it is definitely better than nothing. Also unfortunately, it does not install on FreeBSD in its current official form. It only produces an error. I figured out why the version of Chromium in ports does not support the URL scheme wildcard: that was a feature of the matches value that was added in Chromium v6.x. Chromium is up to 7.x now, but the version in FreeBSD ports is still 5.0.x, so my ugly fix is necessary to make Vimium installable. So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome as a browser ... I find Firefox so clunky now! :D -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
