[gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

[gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I've sort of decided I like Chrome's UI better than others that
I've spent time with (mostly Firefox & Konqueror) but I'm constantly
held up by leftover processes when Chrome is closed:

mark@c2stable ~ $ ps aux | grep chrome
mark      3206  0.0  0.0 292448 16064 ?        S    06:32   0:01
/opt/google/chrome/chrome
--extra-plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins
mark      3207  0.0  0.0   6376   380 ?        S    06:32   0:00
/opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox /opt/google/chrome/chrome
--type=zygote
mark      3208  0.0  0.1 332364 40784 ?        S    06:32   0:00
/opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=zygote
mark      3212  0.0  0.0 189608 23336 ?        S    06:32   0:00
/opt/google/chrome/nacl_helper_bootstrap
/opt/google/chrome/nacl_helper --reserved_at_zero=0x0000000000000000
--r_debug=0x0000000000213000
mark      3216  0.0  0.0 365148 15552 ?        S    06:32   0:00
/opt/google/chrome/chrome --type=zygote
mark     24747  0.0  0.0   8596   904 pts/4    S+   13:05   0:00 grep
--colour=auto chrome
mark     27655  0.0  0.4 657892 114500 ?       S    07:31   0:01
/opt/google/chrome/chrome
--extra-plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins
mark@c2stable ~ $

   In this case if I start Chrome again I don't get any bookmarks. I
have to kill all Chrome process id by hand and restart Chrome to get
my bookmarks.

   Anyone else experiencing this sort of problem? Machines are 64-bit
mostly stable. Clearly Chrome itself is testing so maybe this is early
days?

mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic chrome
[I] www-client/google-chrome
(24.0.1312.25_beta169562(beta){tbz2}@11/28/2012): The web browser from
Google
mark@c2stable ~ $

   Also, is anyone successfully using GoogleTalk in Chrome on Gentoo?

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

[Randy Barlow]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:12:16 -0500, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>  
wrote:
> Also, is anyone successfully using GoogleTalk in Chrome on Gentoo?

Yeah, it works for me:

$ equery list google-chrome google-talkplugin
  * Searching for google-chrome ...
[IP-] [  ] www-client/google-chrome-22.0.1229.94_p161065:stable

  * Searching for google-talkplugin ...
[I--] [??] www-plugins/google-talkplugin-2.1.7.0:0

Strangely, I noticed that I've got those weird ??'s on the  
google-talkplugin package, which I guess means that I'm using a version  
that has been removed from Portage. I see that 3.7.1.0 and 3.9.1.0 are  
available in /usr/portage/www-plugins/google-talkplugin/, so perhaps I  
should upgrade to one of those. Are they not working for you?

-- 
R

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Randy Barlow
<randy@electronsweatshop.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:12:16 -0500, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Also, is anyone successfully using GoogleTalk in Chrome on Gentoo?
>
>
> Yeah, it works for me:
>
> $ equery list google-chrome google-talkplugin
>  * Searching for google-chrome ...
> [IP-] [  ] www-client/google-chrome-22.0.1229.94_p161065:stable
>
>  * Searching for google-talkplugin ...
> [I--] [??] www-plugins/google-talkplugin-2.1.7.0:0
>
> Strangely, I noticed that I've got those weird ??'s on the google-talkplugin
> package, which I guess means that I'm using a version that has been removed
> from Portage. I see that 3.7.1.0 and 3.9.1.0 are available in
> /usr/portage/www-plugins/google-talkplugin/, so perhaps I should upgrade to
> one of those. Are they not working for you?
>
> --
> R
>

Thanks for the info. Actually I haven't tried any version yet. I was
just curious about finding some app that might receive text message
sent from a cell phone. I.e. - instead of giving my cell phone number
which I'd rather keep private I might give a Google-Talk phone number
and receive the messages at my desk. I think this can be done with
Skype but you have to buy a phone number from them. It seems to me
that Google gives theirs out for free, at least right now.

I believe you are correct about the ?? versions. They aren't in portage here.

Thanks again,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

[Bruce Hill]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:38:48PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info. Actually I haven't tried any version yet. I was
> just curious about finding some app that might receive text message
> sent from a cell phone. I.e. - instead of giving my cell phone number
> which I'd rather keep private I might give a Google-Talk phone number
> and receive the messages at my desk. I think this can be done with
> Skype but you have to buy a phone number from them. It seems to me
> that Google gives theirs out for free, at least right now.
> 
> I believe you are correct about the ?? versions. They aren't in portage here.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Mark

There is a service called Google Voice. You get a phone number from them and
can forward it to another phone. Also, it will send voice messages to your
Google mail account, and even translate them (not well) to text. It will also
send text messages. This was the number I put on my business cards (it's in my
sig) so that I could receive calls to my cell number w/out actually giving it
out. When someone calls 662-205-6424 it tells me I have a call from (and I
assume they're asked to give their name), press 1 to accept. If I don't want
to talk to them at that time, I don't answer, and they're routed to the voice
mail. If they leave a message, it's sent to my Google account as a sound file
and translated to text. That's the gist of it...

When my one-year with this Android phone is up in Dec, we're getting iPhones
and also canceling all the Google accounts and services. We don't agree with
the new privacy policies they released March 1, 2012. Google was not a
favorite before then, actually. But if we didn't keep the Google account we
couldn't get updates to the Android phone. Which, by the way, is a piece of
junk (Samsung Galaxy S). Android OS is basically Googles *borrowing* from
Linux and OSS over the years, and they've done an amazingly poor job of it.

Be that as it may ... Google Voice has been nice. If some sane and responsible
party who valued privacy and freedom as we do had a similar service, we'd be
interested.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Bruce Hill
<daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:38:48PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the info. Actually I haven't tried any version yet. I was
>> just curious about finding some app that might receive text message
>> sent from a cell phone. I.e. - instead of giving my cell phone number
>> which I'd rather keep private I might give a Google-Talk phone number
>> and receive the messages at my desk. I think this can be done with
>> Skype but you have to buy a phone number from them. It seems to me
>> that Google gives theirs out for free, at least right now.
>>
>> I believe you are correct about the ?? versions. They aren't in portage here.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Mark
>
> There is a service called Google Voice. You get a phone number from them and
> can forward it to another phone. Also, it will send voice messages to your
> Google mail account, and even translate them (not well) to text. It will also
> send text messages. This was the number I put on my business cards (it's in my
> sig) so that I could receive calls to my cell number w/out actually giving it
> out. When someone calls 662-205-6424 it tells me I have a call from (and I
> assume they're asked to give their name), press 1 to accept. If I don't want
> to talk to them at that time, I don't answer, and they're routed to the voice
> mail. If they leave a message, it's sent to my Google account as a sound file
> and translated to text. That's the gist of it...
>
> When my one-year with this Android phone is up in Dec, we're getting iPhones
> and also canceling all the Google accounts and services. We don't agree with
> the new privacy policies they released March 1, 2012. Google was not a
> favorite before then, actually. But if we didn't keep the Google account we
> couldn't get updates to the Android phone. Which, by the way, is a piece of
> junk (Samsung Galaxy S). Android OS is basically Googles *borrowing* from
> Linux and OSS over the years, and they've done an amazingly poor job of it.
>
> Be that as it may ... Google Voice has been nice. If some sane and responsible
> party who valued privacy and freedom as we do had a similar service, we'd be
> interested.
> --
> Happy Penguin Computers               >')
> 126 Fenco Drive                       ( \
> Tupelo, MS 38801                       ^^
> support@happypenguincomputers.com
> 662-269-2706 662-205-6424
> http://happypenguincomputers.com/
>
> Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
>

Bruce,
   As my interest (at this time, today only) is text message, does the
Google Voice service accept text messages like a cell phone would or
is it purely a voice service like a land line?

Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers

[Randy Barlow]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:06:26 -0500, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>  
wrote:
> As my interest (at this time, today only) is text message, does the
> Google Voice service accept text messages like a cell phone would or
> is it purely a voice service like a land line?

It accepts them like a cell phone, and there is a web interface as well as  
an Android app to use it.

-- 
R