Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and addons no longer supported question
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 03:36:34
Message-Id: 0218c4fa-2f03-6ee2-b616-ad2a7c45a753@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and addons no longer supported question by tuxic@posteo.de
1 tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2 > On 03/30 09:45, Dale wrote:
3 >> tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> Hi,
6 >>>
7 >>> I switched to waterfox for privacy reasons and it supports the older
8 >>> plugin system.
9 >>> No need to stay to older version (keeping older bugs, which may
10 >>> affect seurity) ...
11 >>>
12 >>> Waterfox is opensourced and it has a smaller memory footprint.
13 >>>
14 >>> https://www.waterfoxproject.org/en-US/
15 >>>
16 >>> No advertising intended...I am only an user.
17 >>>
18 >>> Cheers!
19 >>> Meino
20 >>>
21 >> I ran up on a site where that was talked about.  It's not in the tree
22 >> tho.  How did you install it?  Is it just download and run it from
23 >> command line or a manual addition to the menu system?  Is there a
24 >> overlay with it in it?  While I like Firefox, the memory hog that it
25 >> sometimes is, I'm not opposed to switching to something else. 
26 >>
27 >> Thanks for the info. 
28 >>
29 >> Dale
30 >>
31 >> :-)  :-) 
32 >>
33 > Hi Dale,
34 >
35 > I downloaded the archive, unpacked it in a separate directory, moved
36 > that to /usr/local/., made a symlink from /usr/local/bin/waterfox to
37 > the executable in that directory and: DONE :)
38 >
39 > Ok...I did an entry inti menu.xml of my openbox...manually ;)
40 >
41 > Since waterfox is contained in a single directory, gentoo will not be
42 > "polluted" and the removal/upgrade of waterfox is easy.
43 >
44 > It is not the original genuine sacred of Gentoo, though. ;)
45 >
46 > Cheers!
47 > Meino
48 >
49
50 Cool.  I was peeking into overlays and was having no luck at all.  I
51 thought I found it twice but it seems they were removed or something. 
52 There was other stuff in the overlays but not Waterfox. 
53
54 I'll go download it and give it a whirl.  Heck, if it isn't so much of a
55 memory hog, that will be a bonus.  LOL 
56
57 Thanks much. 
58
59 Dale
60
61 :-)  :-) 
62
63 P. S. May reply again if it works really well, for the benefit of others
64 who may want to give it a try.  ;-) 

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