Re: vivaldi?

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

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
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