Re: Brave?? (was Re: google-chrome weirdness)
On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 15:11 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:46:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > [] > > The alternative is Brave, which also uses the "Blink" engine. > > Brave's claim to fame is that it has built in ad and spy blocking. As > > such, it is very fast indeed. It will also import your Chrome profile. > > > > http://brave.com > > I've been looking and wondering. "dnf install brave" fails with > > No match for argument: brave > Error: Unable to find a match > > From which (I THINK) Fedora isn't (yet?) supporting it. That > implies two questions: is it in the works? and can people running it > anyway comment on incidents if any of dependency hell? It has its own repo. See https://brave-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-brave.html#linux poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Brave?? (was Re: google-chrome weirdness)
On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:46:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: [] > The alternative is Brave, which also uses the "Blink" engine. > Brave's claim to fame is that it has built in ad and spy blocking. As > such, it is very fast indeed. It will also import your Chrome profile. > > http://brave.com I've been looking and wondering. "dnf install brave" fails with No match for argument: brave Error: Unable to find a match From which (I THINK) Fedora isn't (yet?) supporting it. That implies two questions: is it in the works? and can people running it anyway comment on incidents if any of dependency hell? Fwiw, dnf update on a machine with Opera and Vivaldi installed (by downloading rpms and running rpm -ivh) checks Opera and Vivaldi repos and has been trouble-free so far. -- Beartooth Implacable, curmudgeonly codger learning linux I try to be paranoid, but I just can't keep up. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: google-chrome weirdness
Hi Tom, Not what you asked, but Chrome no longer supports ad blockers to "enhance the user experience". In other words, to more effectively collect data/spy on you. https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/05/31/2110257/google-struggles-to-justify-why-its-restricting-ad-blockers-in-chrome The alternative is Brave, which also uses the "Blink" engine. Brave's claim to fame is that it has build in add and spy blocking. As such, it is very fast indeed. It will also import your Chrome profile. http://brave.com -T ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: google-chrome weirdness
On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 21:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf > had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in > order to make fonts look better when fedora was going > through a long "spindly" phase for fonts): > > ...[snip]... > > Renaming that file allows Oswald to render correctly. > > What it is about Oswald (and no other fonts I checked) > that makes it screw up so badly, I have no idea. My guess would be that the browser may have misidentified the font, and it's being rendered with data from something wildly different. e.g. Try rendering a 24 point font as if it were a 2 point font, and I'm sure layout would be scrambled. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: google-chrome weirdness
On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 20:38 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Google-chrome has started rendering the "Oswald" web > font with all the characters in a string mostly on top > of one another, but only for my user. > > See: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald > > If I create a completely new user, log out and log back > in as new user, google-chrome works. That web page > above renders just fine. > > If I merely rename ~/.config/google-chrome and run > google-chrome as my original user, it still screws up > the font. It may have cached the site in a mangled manner. Look in: ~/.cache/google-chrome/ ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: google-chrome weirdness
On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 20:38:31 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > So who knows where besides ~/.config/google-chrome > google-chrome will get information? Because something > about my user screws it up even when I try to start > from scratch with no saved profile. Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in order to make fonts look better when fedora was going through a long "spindly" phase for fonts): none true hintfull true Renaming that file allows Oswald to render correctly. What it is about Oswald (and no other fonts I checked) that makes it screw up so badly, I have no idea. It doesn't happen in firefox even though that fonts.conf file would (I imagine) affect it as well. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
google-chrome weirdness
Google-chrome has started rendering the "Oswald" web font with all the characters in a string mostly on top of one another, but only for my user. See: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald If I create a completely new user, log out and log back in as new user, google-chrome works. That web page above renders just fine. If I merely rename ~/.config/google-chrome and run google-chrome as my original user, it still screws up the font. So who knows where besides ~/.config/google-chrome google-chrome will get information? Because something about my user screws it up even when I try to start from scratch with no saved profile. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
