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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
