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Linux salineos...
« Thread Started on Jan 17, 2012, 11:47am »

where to begin ,,,

Alright, so I thought I come to the community for some help!
a problem with chromium (the default browser it installs with)

When I got to the chrome webstore to install addons I cant install any!!!!!!
It says next to addons available for google chrome
and i click it to install the addon but i get to the google chromes website ........................................ instead?

Need help... Im lost as to why I get redirected to googles chromium instalaltion website instead of getting a popup for the plugin installation... cant install any addons like 'adblockers or flash blockers nor any other addons !! -.- !!

And odd is , chromium in other distros i tried worked fine with addons .. >? is there a workaround please..... I hate ads and this is a necessery thing for me .. please help

Seems to me its salines fault or bug ?

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Re: Linux salineos...
« Reply #1 on Jan 18, 2012, 12:03am »

Chromium uses the latest Chromium version available for Debian Squeeze, which is unfortunately very old at this point and isn't supported by Google for add ons anymore. This is caused by a conflict in Debians strict quality control policies and Chromium's somewhat disastrous code base. The best solution for the time being is to install Google Chrome through the .deb they have available here: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95346

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« Reply #2 on Jan 18, 2012, 6:50am »

thats what I was afraid of..... lol!!

Oh my! Well the reason I always used chromium or chromiumplus was becouse it doesnt track and record and overtake what you do by google.

What I mean, is that google's chromium is not only tracking and recording and sending the info back to them but also their policy on usage of their software is scary as they can take ownership of pic or whatever you upload or see andagain the tracking .

I see why I never had this issues with my other distros now... They were all slackware based

Any alternatives to google chrome? I mean with webkit render browser? I also know of iron browser and others but they are for windows..

For time being I am using iceweasel but not really what I wanted

not that I hate it, its great but still I like the speed of chrome (not google's tho, becouse of the security and other issues I stated above)

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« Reply #3 on Jan 18, 2012, 9:12am »

Midori uses webkit and is quite lightweight as it uses the Xfce libraries for its' GUI. It also includes a built in ad blocker extension, to enable it open Midori and go to Tools > Extensions.

I will likely be moving to Midori as the default browser for SalineOS 2.0 which will be based on Wheezy, I haven't been happy with my Chromium decision for many months now. To answer your post in the other thread, it is likely the issue you are having with Pogo relates to the use of the open source Icedtea browser plugin. Some sites have problems with it, even if 99% of them will work fine with it. You could try replacing it with the sun-java plugin just open a terminal and paste this with the key combination shift insert
aptitude update && aptitude purge icedtea6-plugin && aptitude install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

You will have to accept an End User License Agreement for this, this is also the reason it isn't used by default. It really isn't "free" software. Pogo and Minecraft are the only sites I know of that don't work without the sun java packages.

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Re: Linux salineos...
« Reply #4 on Jan 18, 2012, 1:28pm »

All the above is why I have stuck with Iceweasel through back ports. Then consider all the add-ons you can use it's a no brainer. I use Ghostery to stop the tracking and ad block plus to stop ads then I like SyncPlaces for my bookmarks. Ya it's a pig for RAM and a tad slow on the start but when you weight all the pros and cons between Mozilla, Google and others Mozilla wins hands down. Debian's simple browser (epiphany) isn't to bad for simple use. Mostly I just use it for reading docs on my computer but will work well on sites like this one. If you want really fast try dillo but like a true race car all creature comforts are gone. No java script so you don't have to worry about tracking and you block ads through /etc/hosts and frames are extra.

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« Reply #5 on Jan 18, 2012, 11:57pm »

Like I said I am most likely going to move to Midori for 2.0, if not Midori it will be Iceweasel or Firefox. Chromium won't be the default 2.0, a lesson learned the hard way there. The biggest quirk with Midori I have at the moment is it doesn't offer suggestions when you right click on a misspelled word, which I use a lot ::)

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« Reply #6 on Jan 19, 2012, 8:22am »

A brief comment on Midori, it does not seem to accept bookmarks.html. Which in my case is difficult considering the amount of bookmarks involved in keeping up with Linux as references for the Forum.

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Re: Linux salineos...
« Reply #7 on Jan 19, 2012, 9:46am »

Jan 18, 2012, 12:03am, Anthony Nordquist wrote:

That's what I use in Saline, Debian, etc. I'd prefer to use Chromium, but Ubuntu is one of the few distros with a fairly up-to-date chromium-browser in the repos, so I use Chrome (with Duck Duck Go) in most other distros.

Still not enamored with Midori, but it sounds like a reasonable default option for SalineOS.

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« Reply #8 on Jan 26, 2012, 10:10pm »

Actually midori rocks. I used it in fedora16 and it has a flash/youtube capable version as well as a private browser version installed side by side. The repo has an older version and the compile to the latest was untenable. I run torbrowser in saline along with FF9.01 and midori. Torbrowser copied over into my saline folder and simply worked, albeit i used the same username. FF I had to run as root in order to update twice to get to the latest. I modify it to be secure as possible, and midori I leave alone. I wouldn't touch chrome with a tenfootpole.

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« Reply #9 on Jan 26, 2012, 11:06pm »

Jan 26, 2012, 10:10pm, debby wrote:

Actually midori rocks. I used it in fedora16 and it has a flash/youtube capable version as well as a private browser version installed side by side. In saline?-not so much. The repo has an older version and the compile to the latest was untenable. I run torbrowser in saline along with FF9.01 and iceweasel. Torbrowser copied over into my saline folder and simply worked, albeit i used the same username. FF I had to run as root in order to update twice to get to the latest. I modify it to be secure as possible, and ice I leave alone. I wouldn't touch chrome with a tenfootpole.

Dude. Saline is totally based on Stable.. the repos is the repos.
You know how Debian works.All the rest fart in the bathtub. When the boys and girls at Debian say it's stable ? Take it to the bank, military installation, engineering department, university.......whatever.
This OS jumps when the Debian developers say it's JUMP TIME.
Until then. Have fun with all of the others.

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« Reply #10 on Jan 27, 2012, 7:42am »

Midori in the repositories is quite old, there is no denying that. It also lacks important features, the features problem has been fixed in Debian testing for which the next version of SalineOS will be based. It is likely the same version you are seeing in Fedora and it being good is the main reason to use it for 2.0. Browser options will be sorted for 2.0, I promise.

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