tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 03/30 09:45, Dale wrote: >> tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I switched to waterfox for privacy reasons and it supports the older >>> plugin system. >>> No need to stay to older version (keeping older bugs, which may >>> affect seurity) ... >>> >>> Waterfox is opensourced and it has a smaller memory footprint. >>> >>> https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/ >>> >>> No advertising intended...I am only an user. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Meino >>> >> I ran up on a site where that was talked about. It's not in the tree >> tho. How did you install it? Is it just download and run it from >> command line or a manual addition to the menu system? Is there a >> overlay with it in it? While I like Firefox, the memory hog that it >> sometimes is, I'm not opposed to switching to something else. >> >> Thanks for the info. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > Hi Dale, > > I downloaded the archive, unpacked it in a separate directory, moved > that to /usr/local/., made a symlink from /usr/local/bin/waterfox to > the executable in that directory and: DONE :) > > Ok...I did an entry inti menu.xml of my openbox...manually ;) > > Since waterfox is contained in a single directory, gentoo will not be > "polluted" and the removal/upgrade of waterfox is easy. > > It is not the original genuine sacred of Gentoo, though. ;) > > Cheers! > Meino >
Cool. I was peeking into overlays and was having no luck at all. I thought I found it twice but it seems they were removed or something. There was other stuff in the overlays but not Waterfox. I'll go download it and give it a whirl. Heck, if it isn't so much of a memory hog, that will be a bonus. LOL Thanks much. Dale :-) :-) P. S. May reply again if it works really well, for the benefit of others who may want to give it a try. ;-)
