[sf-lug] Browsers (Re: (forw) Re: (forw) Re: Brave browser)

[Tony Godshall]

Ungoogled-chromium is being kept more up to date, but the disclaimer is a
bit disturbing.

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/




On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 10:33 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> So, basically 'live URL' means 'URL'.  Okey-dokie.  ;->
>
> Yes, Cyberfox hasn't been updated in almost two years, as you can easily
> see for yourself online.
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
> -----
>
> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:51:27 -0700
> From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
> To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] (forw) Re: Brave browser
>
>
> On 4/25/20 9:22 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > It would scare _me_, relying on an unmaintained one-time port of a huge,
> > public-facing piece of software, but, strictly at your own risk:
> >
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20180906042707/https://download.8pecxstudios.com/latest/Cyberfox-52.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.deb
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://download.8pecxstudios.com/latest/Cyberfox-52.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://download.8pecxstudios.com/latest/Cyberfox-52.9.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
> > Cyberfox 52.9.1 is a mid-2018 release.  If my calendar doesn't lie, that
> > means it's um... old -- and that's the very latest Cyberfox release
> > code.
> >
> >
> > (I'm still mystified about how a 'live URL' in this context would differ
> from a
> > URL without the 'live' qualifier.  But hey, what do I know?  I've only
> > had a Web server running for a bit over a quarter-century.)
>
>     Well in Usenet Newsgroups where I linger against the dying of
> the medium
>
> having live URLs means readers can get to the material in which they or the
>
> poster may have an interest.  Since you cannot have images on text
> only Usenet
>
> and have to a lot of decoding when you are binary newsgroups in order to
>
> see the images you can have URL that have to be copied.
>
>     A lot of people fail to wrap the URL properly and it splits at
> the line length
>
> limit.  Usually brackets of some sort and I usually use <URL>  to hold the
>
> URL together so that if it splits into one or more or several lines it
> might
>
> still work.
>
>     I have a fondness for Usenet as that is where I learned a lot about
>
> the Amiga computer back in the day.  Some people assert that Usenet
>
> is the original Social Media as it has a lot of Newsgroups devoted to
>
> different matters of interest.  Newsgroups such as alt.os.linux.mageia,
>
> rec.arts.manga, rec.arts.anime.misc, alt.os.linux, alt.os.linux.ubuntu.
>
> There are groups dedicated to spreading information about working in
>
> ceramics and groups dedicated to selling stuff.
>
> >
> > I'm glad we're all agreed that it's based on Firefox.  ;->
>             Could we do other?
> > Specifically, Cyberfox is one of a large number of third-party forks of
> > the 2016 pre-Firefox 48 codebase, the release where Mozilla, Inc.
> > deliberately broke XUL & XPCOM in Release Edition and Beta Edition.  A
> > year further on, they also broke it in Firefox ESR, and, worse, made all
> > of the browser release code refuse to run extensions unless they are
> > cryptographically signed by Mozilla, Inc.
> >
> > So, for all of those reasons, quite a number of offshoots of the
> > pre-Firefox 48 codebase have sprung up, and are variously semi-popular.
> >
>
>     And Cyberfox is old?  Well I may have to look around for
> something more modern
>
> but in no hurry as it just works for me.  Palemoon was a bit more
> problematical.
>
>
>     Bobbie
>
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Bobbie Sellers <
> bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> -----
> >
> > Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:40:59 -0700
> > From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
> > To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> > Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Brave browser
> >
> >
> > [snip]
> >          No Rick, it is Cyberfox.  and while I cannot copy all
> > the information from the About Cyberfox section it is based on Mozilla
> > as one might guess from the name but comes from
> > https://cyberfox.8pecxstudios.com/cyberfox-linux which is down right
> > now.
> >
> > I got mine thru Synaptic on PCLinux by searching on browsers. My
> > version is 52.9.1
> >
> > *"Binaries* of this product have been made available to you by the
> > 8pecxstudios <https://8pecxstudios.com/> under
> > the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL). Know your rights." then a list
> > of applicable licenses.
> >
> >      Oh and if this gets through 3rd line above contain URL and
> > your post contains two live URLs.
> >
> >      Bobbie
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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