Re: vivaldi?

From	Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: vivaldi?
Date	2016-01-03 17:10 +0100
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On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 10:02:59 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett@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/

-- 
Charlie Kravetz
Linux Registered User Number 425914
[http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html]
Never let anyone steal your DREAM.   [http://keepingdreams.com]

Thread

vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 16:10 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 16:20 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 16:30 +0100
      Re: vivaldi? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 17:00 +0100
        Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 18:20 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-01-03 17:10 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 18:00 +0100
      Re: vivaldi? Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-01-03 19:20 +0100
        Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 22:10 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 18:30 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 18:40 +0100
      Re: vivaldi? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 19:50 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-01-03 21:50 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 22:20 +0100
      Re: vivaldi? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-01-03 22:40 +0100
        Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 23:20 +0100
          Re: vivaldi? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 00:30 +0100
            Re: vivaldi? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-04 01:10 +0100
              Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-04 03:30 +0100
          Re: vivaldi? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-01-04 04:00 +0100
            Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-04 04:50 +0100
              Re: vivaldi? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-01-05 02:20 +0100
            Re: vivaldi? Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> - 2016-01-04 15:20 +0100
              Re: vivaldi? Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-02-08 22:30 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-03 22:10 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 22:50 +0100
      Re: vivaldi? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-03 23:10 +0100
        Re: vivaldi? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-01-04 18:10 +0100
          Re: vivaldi? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 18:30 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-02-08 21:40 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-01-03 23:00 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-03 23:20 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-01-03 23:50 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 00:40 +0100
      Re: vivaldi? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-01-04 01:10 +0100
        Re: vivaldi? Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 01:20 +0100
      Re: vivaldi? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-04 02:30 +0100
    Re: vivaldi? Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-01-04 20:40 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-01-04 14:50 +0100
  Re: vivaldi? James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2016-01-18 18:50 +0100

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