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Re: vivaldi?

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On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:57:54 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:

>On Sunday 03 January 2016 10:37:06 Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>
>> 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/
>
>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

Throw that installer back in your /home. Run it as non-root, move the
first window out of the way, and click on install.

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

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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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