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I don't want to turn this into a Firefox-slagging thread; this is more |
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along the lines of presenting a viable alternative browser. |
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And it's much easier on Gentoo than most other distros. The problem |
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most people run into is that Flash video doesn't work on midori. The |
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root cause is that midori defaults to building with gtk+:3, and |
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Schlockwave Trash is a gtk:2 binary. Apparently, it's an incompatable |
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ABI. Webkit2 is supposed to fix this problem when it comes out... one |
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of these days. But in the meantime we're out of luck... no we're not. |
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I looked at the midori ebuild and noticed... |
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deprecated? ( |
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net-libs/webkit-gtk:2 |
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x11-libs/gtk+:2 |
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unique? ( dev-libs/libunique:1 ) |
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) |
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!deprecated? ( |
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net-libs/webkit-gtk:3 |
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x11-libs/gtk+:3 |
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unique? ( dev-libs/libunique:3 ) |
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) |
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I built midori with the "deprecated" USE flag, and Youtube and other |
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Flash stuff works just fine thank you. Here's the script I use to |
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launch midori... |
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#!/bin/bash |
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export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins" |
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midori |
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The MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH environmental variable appears to be necessary. |
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Modify as appropriate on your machine. If you run into SSL errors, |
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export another variable before launching... |
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export WEBKIT_IGNORE_SSL_ERRORS="1" |
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I'm still testing it, so no guarantees midori fully works, but I want |
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an alternative to Firefox. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |