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[65.0.93.225]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r12sm5561129ywl.108.2018.04.02.01.54.49 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 02 Apr 2018 01:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and addons no longer supported question To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <3f62fbf9-c160-60e4-e5dc-07cecf213439@gmail.com> <0eca4c97-5bba-9aff-5e9c-a253b3341f3d@gmail.com> <20180331023508.v7q5hdd4vwlzlvkr@solfire> <7d2febad-b137-4186-9455-130be72fb0b1@gmail.com> <20180331030520.vby7azpgew4ggd2f@solfire> <0218c4fa-2f03-6ee2-b616-ad2a7c45a753@gmail.com> <20180331034530.npx5kaa7x5776l5y@solfire> From: Dale Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=rdalek1967@gmail.com; keydata= xsFNBFpEtdQBEADI51WaryP3FJlDfmCQx2aPQpSppEKxqWhCTA8KFEcOVFmIIfiFAeekqMMD mhUxgZTtlQh7dsNqha6ioaYDqGKTv7oeJlPJw4hmIMJX3WYVSOHlsJUNM2jpDIAFeEKfup/T zDzFpuU2Qtr/Y0ji35wHyOAZLRckeNk705oRvE9wqi6noTP15Gxmw/U6aMzEfvu+wGEfCjgs 9bERmu+CS75PZEaFAv8RnsXUv1UcvQ45jmk/8ni/ogxE2h53OIp6c/hOlgJkSVRQWPZZyKZw lDiSUKCtMXPMdZ9w0X6RltQxtIQXO0KxAKaAp+tnL8z+0piafF5uW4RIglhT922RXKxxdZyx SjRgtE4V1IPtUcwPAeqVUZw2P1b4pjfPv7tNtMoFsIiY0ZnT+ua4ps6KOUeocRPKAX14mZkL jt/sZM7aIKiwyoteshRgWNNkxh4OiSxGCRUKNQI8M42cRSidvJZ6SGZXM3WpV28RPyF7+0Ba 0stEQwBGNF8uxgytY9rOJ7obmIpEZKx1p3W1O1hadOjBo2110jMDirRXtktMDfBDvVKkOZ06 vLu16uZLb0O52euhl2dMcEI3ZoCAFTKtdwMITIDj1TcMBZar6+bcwOicSFFogOLHQLJZRO5q I5szOIYW7+c0yNqPRLT3Sq7HzDyuyTUjmPZSAcqOwzX8GwUFkwARAQABzRtEYWxlIDxyZGFs ZWsxOTY3QGdtYWlsLmNvbT7CwZQEEwEIAD4WIQSUDVlCt0m0Z/PsCaxgB5lCagHqugUCWkS1 1AIbIwUJCWYBgAULCQgHAgYVCAkKCwIEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRBgB5lCagHqurR7D/45/q20 vXdrJGxrkNphotmlBtTpNbVauu5A2NDv3E1Il6yqRBfh4Xw7xFuwhz9DqThuvByU6566vr0z 7oVCK33dxRm4WA7YaogRQZy4VVIbHdrksnh2f702CFllqtn5Y29M2JtXG5jiiL3aZNEhoyP9 eMtzLPGs56yZ3eMkz4U7DEmWCAUr8bbuXW+eq/A0V5djcFdHfmanuDZSxzg+cZTpVOLolS2b pmNsPTSMkJ2MDY2Kfdg3gPhSaawo2agQfgnf9E7vSm7z/rlk8bBUWcPAP/XTN9ndVwOO3x74 EQv/M4EiCTtNpw3yapVZI2NhA1wqW648D7RxIPD8Y3nkJVDS4x5g54xDe1IUFOtVUSDAh+vY wUJt7vgbCeRjyT8XbuGW9RokIos3ALNaPoq/FDNEqefbmop0CPRih6aLFHWT4YBA6xQjLJuP LSNvalNqE5mef0giCtnLxo/lkjnP9Sv+t/5VSHda5zkVuN0+2w46SbGvXIHRkSoSi6XH3ccq KayJC+oTqo4xf9J30c7CV4rEcYnJcnxMw0vcYmU3DwjGfKxuKcLHgPr9mDNWvhteroA5wNWw NzQ72yAj7rsZVUXCxZgiPldSH3SXZJ/Jo6E9JouzQgRb/I4Vy4jx0Yw8rJLDx/ha82fn+FVe cFbiodVV5UD0inw488IAAtJE+Zi0t87BTQRaRLXUARAA38iHcF7M7GnkS73dazdLBgz2YJsu fpix/N/x4CvoHMqTuwi4ASz1WroYjl3KajeH0DSybyPdEQ7nffxIUt48deT3j/rwsJkPRvCF BpmcwxErd/Mbq0BgikYxXvO68aEAs4jBDR26YtONfjobEfd+Juhxci9UN9vTOCgSPhY+dxHs MZ0gHRzvMnpM3o3+oht/XRZr05RQx83DvTIqWnjDQlCseYYlbFp+rFTZi7ro71ULDThfCE0p +f+IQ3zX0cRKOcJGtNRvyWH6PxmN4td6Q7gPHfAsFPLsCpg7nZwOejtAktPejtSEXlN6QOKv bmRQxNtzgMtjzJNNJW2NtBz0DIW394+9stchQRKLqH8n8GnB6tlkfPg4vgf/kq14QQSZcb0F M36wk+i1Hk+TWYWbOBoUw9+X941Pw1JnglJ3tzpBh+36+pdG02Lbm2v6SaZ69zkDfzJ2Sfhb E+KQLibLkiCOhuSDLDWUgUeb0lJ/0qlo3vcQMTBuG5eiWiwBkp4C+ACb1f1Akq0mFvim+gCJ qJOTu0IDK9DjKLKglA3Z6sbeepnXq8fxB2Mo/SFSYEsGqUu4MLxgwnPg7zi+rKg7MhqdiBBE fqugmNguCEYZjJrGCCzwuqPXAZAcyzEYTGFKwI6NdEZ6v8Xc3om9MJomB3y1uzG6K7T9ue5H aw/2aqEAEQEAAcLBfAQYAQgAJhYhBJQNWUK3SbRn8+wJrGAHmUJqAeq6BQJaRLXUAhsMBQkJ ZgGAAAoJEGAHmUJqAeq6/ykP/ib6xEHednaXvzZvvj854PB5ffBqKkphbf51g6pxPvFBWMwY E7Bu/kq8e3hkp3rzX42BjqiUmfEe2OyfZCabXLybP8i/QRkHTzD5nLoIYLeL+62N/WQFW1NU VhqdfQbMhphNgP1mvG2Ib5R6S+Fb+vkw776oq6jLwUBP/o6PPpp62GyvFvFb9ekxV9+sE4yG V3DTqURBY+aXfc/MTzlCXp4u4QzFW9odfcb/kb9f1m/gZbWGihAqeMd1HViXQoMzTx6IuP13 eQAkKj4FlA2QMzbEOOKO6fliSt1JweJoh0OLCEAM/3q+LaflMvvjhl9ht00IUT/ySj3/dZdf EdTpuUAtnC3A3flwgK/aetkkOhrkx9hx4SKn6UHtAl+eCqP1Mae+nWzkisBL0/hBPEz713md 5I+4Y4QjIokRiz/5l/TFwpGu26zmDfDUkZmxZR/iNCW0VAmZE2YdyRm3PYcFcVXuZ1f/ff0D us9xGsO8V6F5EIwx/9Y6AWQdW7PoKHA21ri93PoRgjv+QoOifXEkhJwTKg5k5b1Tr7h9eRU/ Se2XigPVODjrN9FRfkx/JxlJcCs/igGJS05BmiZNIIRDKBGdXy/Fj5HQB2q5v5DfvrLMNTwK Aa8pn/em1SKC/l9aV9ygpN+cQPKoQjGxPPaId/rwX+GVxKl2vakjHLPLQmm3 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 03:54:48 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180331034530.npx5kaa7x5776l5y@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: a7e6a6c6-de27-438b-b8b1-89fbd534a578 X-Archives-Hash: c2ed5ecf312e53a18d0d485329a5118f tuxic@posteo.de wrote: > On 03/30 10:36, Dale wrote: >> tuxic@posteo.de wrote: >>> On 03/30 09:45, Dale wrote: >>>> tuxic@posteo.de wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I switched to waterfox for privacy reasons and it supports the older >>>>> plugin system. >>>>> No need to stay to older version (keeping older bugs, which may >>>>> affect seurity) ... >>>>> >>>>> Waterfox is opensourced and it has a smaller memory footprint. >>>>> >>>>> https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/ >>>>> >>>>> No advertising intended...I am only an user. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers! >>>>> Meino >>>>> >>>> I ran up on a site where that was talked about.  It's not in the tree >>>> tho.  How did you install it?  Is it just download and run it from >>>> command line or a manual addition to the menu system?  Is there a >>>> overlay with it in it?  While I like Firefox, the memory hog that it >>>> sometimes is, I'm not opposed to switching to something else.  >>>> >>>> Thanks for the info.  >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> :-)  :-)  >>>> >>> Hi Dale, >>> >>> I downloaded the archive, unpacked it in a separate directory, moved >>> that to /usr/local/., made a symlink from /usr/local/bin/waterfox to >>> the executable in that directory and: DONE :) >>> >>> Ok...I did an entry inti menu.xml of my openbox...manually ;) >>> >>> Since waterfox is contained in a single directory, gentoo will not be >>> "polluted" and the removal/upgrade of waterfox is easy. >>> >>> It is not the original genuine sacred of Gentoo, though. ;) >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Meino >>> >> Cool.  I was peeking into overlays and was having no luck at all.  I >> thought I found it twice but it seems they were removed or something.  >> There was other stuff in the overlays but not Waterfox.  >> >> I'll go download it and give it a whirl.  Heck, if it isn't so much of a >> memory hog, that will be a bonus.  LOL  >> >> Thanks much.  >> >> Dale >> >> :-)  :-)  >> >> P. S. May reply again if it works really well, for the benefit of others >> who may want to give it a try.  ;-)  >> > Hi Dale, > > > to wetten your appetite...;) > Here is an exerpt of the wikepedia page for waterfox: > > Waterfox differs from Firefox in a number of ways by: > Disabling Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) > Disabling Web Runtime > Removing Adobe DRM > Removing Pocket > Removing Telemetry > Removing data collection > Removing startup profiling > Allowing running of all 64-bit NPAPI plugins > Allowing running of unsigned extensions > Removing of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page > Addition of Duplicate Tab option > Addition of locale selector in about:preferences > General > Defaulting to Ecosia as the search engine instead of Google or Yahoo![7] > Cookie prompt from version 56.0 (beta)[8] > > (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox) > > Cheers > Meino > I played with it for a bit but I can't get the old or new tab utility addon to work.  I tried the old one but it fails to start with some error I can't recall.  The new tab utility addon only works with the newer Firefox versions.  It seems I can win no matter what I try.  :/ Dale :-)  :-)