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