Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 19:17 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > Then why do we have two options, erase and remove, if they are same? IIRC because it was originally called erase and then changed to remove, but the old name was kept for backwards compatibility. Or maybe it was the other way round. Updat

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

2014-05-26 15:47, Sudhir Khanger skrev: > > On 26-May-2014 5:44 pm, "Patrick O'Callaghan" > wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 17:21 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> > I like the idea of "remove" which removes just the package and "erase" >> > which erases everything

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 26-May-2014 5:44 pm, "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 17:21 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > I like the idea of "remove" which removes just the package and "erase" > > which erases everything automatically-created-and-hidden-by-system. > > From time to time software start

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 05/26/14 19:51, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> You are confusing things, IMHO, we are not talking about the "prerogative" >> of a system admin but how things are/should work. >> >> You seem to be suggesting that >> >> yum erase google-chrom

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 17:21 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I like the idea of "remove" which removes just the package and "erase" > which erases everything automatically-created-and-hidden-by-system. > From time to time software start misbehaving or an update that brings > huge changes and it won't

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/26/14 17:01, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 05/26/14 15:00, Sudhir Khanger wrote: There is nothing glorifying in ~/.local/share/applications. You may like dead links in your

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 05/26/14 17:01, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/26/14 15:00, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >>> There is nothing glorifying in ~/.local/share/applications. You may like >>> dead links in your application menu. I don't. I like the concept of purging

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/26/14 15:00, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> There is nothing glorifying in ~/.local/share/applications. You may like >> dead links in your application menu. I don't. I like the concept of purging >> everything a package installed. Any time yo

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 05/26/14 15:00, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I like the concept of purging everything a package installed. Also, understand that installing chrome *did not* create/install files in ~/.local/share/applications They were created by the "user" running chrome. -- Do not condemn the judgment of anot

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 05/26/14 15:00, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > There is nothing glorifying in ~/.local/share/applications. You may like dead > links in your application menu. I don't. I like the concept of purging > everything a package installed. Any time you reinstall you will have deal > with conflicts. So, for

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On May 26, 2014 11:16 AM, "Ed Greshko" wrote: > > On 05/26/14 13:30, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > Has anyone tried uninstalling Chrome? It left a lot of cruft on my system mainly in the /opt/google/* and ~/.local/share/applications folders. > > I've not done an uninstall of Chrome. However, I would

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 05/26/14 13:30, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > Has anyone tried uninstalling Chrome? It left a lot of cruft on my system > mainly in the /opt/google/* and ~/.local/share/applications folders. I've not done an uninstall of Chrome. However, I would not expect, nor want, any uninstall process to remov

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On May 22, 2014 3:29 AM, "Veeti Paananen" wrote: > > On 21/05/14 09:50, Ed Greshko wrote: > > You might think thatif you also think that the version preceding the update was horribly bug ridden and the update fixes everything. I don't happen to think that. > > Chrome/Chromium 35 includes 23 s

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 21/05/14 09:50, Ed Greshko wrote: > You might think thatif you also think that the version preceding the > update was horribly bug ridden and the update fixes everything. I don't > happen to think that. Chrome/Chromium 35 includes 23 security fixes [1]. Web browsers are extremely complex

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

There are more obnoxious features which I can probably turn off with the appropriate fvwm style, but I gotta figure out which of the 47M fvwm flags I need to set: Chrome now insist on bringing itself to the top of the window stack when I right click on a link. Since I right clicked the link to do

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Mickey wrote: ... > If I use Opera on those same websites I have no problems at all. > As to why this is happening I do not know. Don't use Opera. Opera for the Linux desktop is pretty much abandoned. Last update 12.16 was almost a year ago (july 2013). The Windo

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On May 21, 2014 8:42 PM, "Mickey" wrote: > > > On 05/21/2014 12:41 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> On 05/21/14 10:42, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >>> >>> How are we supposed to run OpenJDK with Chrome once they drop NPAPI? >> >> Don't upgrade, or switch to Firefox. Lucky for me I had a previous version of

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 21.05.2014, Mickey wrote: > I have had problems of Firefox freezes while playing streaming video and > locking up computer. Ok. If this is not what you already did: uninstall the flash plugin, download the .tar.gz archive of the appropriate plugin here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ a

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

II On 05/21/2014 11:37 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 21.05.2014, Mickey wrote: Don't switch to Firefox, it is having problems of streaming video properly with the flash-Plugin . I have been using Firefox in many years, and didn't encounter streaming problems with Flash videos. Do you have any evid

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 21.05.2014, Mickey wrote: > Don't switch to Firefox, it is having problems of streaming video properly > with the flash-Plugin . I have been using Firefox in many years, and didn't encounter streaming problems with Flash videos. Do you have any evidence for your statement? -- users mailing

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 05/21/2014 12:41 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/21/14 10:42, Sudhir Khanger wrote: How are we supposed to run OpenJDK with Chrome once they drop NPAPI? Don't upgrade, or switch to Firefox. Lucky for me I had a previous version of Chrome :-) Don't switch to Firefox, it is having proble

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 05/21/14 14:43, Tim wrote: > Sudhir Khanger wrote: >>> How are we supposed to run OpenJDK with Chrome once they drop NPAPI? > Ed Greshko: >> Don't upgrade, or switch to Firefox. Lucky for me I had a previous >> version of Chrome :-) > I would have thought, that of all the applications, a we

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> How are we supposed to run OpenJDK with Chrome once they drop NPAPI? Ed Greshko: > Don't upgrade, or switch to Firefox. Lucky for me I had a previous > version of Chrome :-) I would have thought, that of all the applications, a web browser would be the last thing you

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On 05/21/14 10:42, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > How are we supposed to run OpenJDK with Chrome once they drop NPAPI? Don't upgrade, or switch to Firefox. Lucky for me I had a previous version of Chrome :-) -- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both

Re: [OT] Chrome Notice (Warning)

On May 21, 2014 8:04 AM, "Ed Greshko" wrote: > > If you value your NPAPI based plugins *do not* update to the latest version of the Chrome Browser. > > NPAPI support has been removed and those plugins will no longer work. This will include the IcedTea-Web Plugin and the totem plugins. > > -- > Do