Re: vivaldi?

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Sunday 03 January 2016 13:14:39 Charlie Kravetz wrote:

> 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.

I have done that, about 6 times now, it opens no other windows UNTIL I 
have given it my sudo passwd.

Since I have 2 copies of it sitting in /root/Downloads I think I'll have 
a root mc session move one of them back and if needed change the perms. 
Then look at it and see if I can do it without that broken script.  Or 
better yet, edit the script if I can see whats wrong.

Thanks.


IMO whoever wrote that script needs to take another look at it since they 
do NOT want root to install it.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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