2 Jun
2024
2 Jun
'24
3:40 a.m.
I've been trying to use the sea monkey browser and:
At first I couldn't get on Fcaebook. It just kept erroring out. I had to
do this weird work around:
EDIT > PREFERENCES > ADVANCED > HTTP NETWORKING
And select " IDENTIFY AS SEAMONKEY"
Close SM and re launch it, but now, I can't make a status on Facebook,
or even comment on posts!
I tried changing the user agent string, same thing... >:o
The SM Email Client = LOVE IT. 8-)
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2 Jun
2 Jun
4:03 a.m.
No one must use only one web browser on a computer he controls. Some browsers do
some things better than others. Some browsers do things others can't do at all. I
typically have 5 browsers (not browser windows) open, but sometimes more, among
them: Pale Moon, Falkon, Chromium, Firefox, besides SeaMonkey, and multiple
versions of some, not to mention browser profiles.
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Felix Miata
5:18 a.m.
On Saturday 01 June 2024 21:03:20 Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
No one must use only one web browser on a computer he
controls. Some
browsers do some things better than others. Some browsers do things others
can't do at all. I typically have 5 browsers (not browser windows) open,
but sometimes more, among them: Pale Moon, Falkon, Chromium, Firefox,
besides SeaMonkey, and multiple versions of some, not to mention browser
profiles.
Yeah, I am gonna stand with Felix on this one. You may recall that I said
earlier that I use Seamonkey for one webpage, and only one (although its
future seems to be in question at the moment); the reason is that its
settings are well-suited for that particular page. I have practically never
used it for anything else. I never used it for email, though.
Limiting oneself to just one browser is like having only one pair of shoes for
everything; which, depending on the shoes, depending on what one does in
life, might not sound so bad. But what if you had to do everything in a pair
of dress shoes that looked good, but didn't really serve your feet so well
except for those rare fancy dress-up occasions?
This is maybe not the best metaphor, but you get the idea. I don't wear dress
shoes to climb a mountain. I don't wear snowshoes when running to catch a
taxi on a crowded city street. I don't wear my steel-toed hiking boots when I
take a lady out dancing.
Bill
6:36 p.m.
On 6/2/24 00:03, Felix Miata via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
No one must use only one web browser on a computer he
controls. Some browsers do
some things better than others. Some browsers do things others can't do at all. I
typically have 5 browsers (not browser windows) open, but sometimes more, among
them: Pale Moon, Falkon, Chromium, Firefox, besides SeaMonkey, and multiple
versions of some, not to mention browser profiles.
So many are just Chromium with different toppings. And it has made a huge mess, as I
discovered in my TV project.
First, the non-Chromium example, Netscape/Firefox. To stream a huge variety of video, a
DRM plugin called Widevine must be employed. It is a Google thing, but to keep the
million-pound Federal hammer from coming down on Google they made it available to
FireScape. Ah, yes, well . . . It turns out that the current version of Firefox (and every
version since 119) won't keep screensavers from triggering. There is a version called
Firefox ESR that screensavers respect, but it won't run Widevine.
Widevine won't run at all on most Chromium derivatives. It will run on Chromium
itself. You can spend all day trying recipes to make it work, making a spiderweb of
symlinks . . . to no avail. A bare-bones browser that runs Widevine while also accepting
privacy plugins . . . doesn't exist.
So the solution is to have a batch of browsers, each for its own few sites, all through a
reliable VPN, each emerging a different place. (And things like FreeTube, which is
amazing.)
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noon
On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 22:40:18 -0500
Chris M via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
I've been trying to use the sea monkey browser
and:
At first I couldn't get on Fcaebook. It just kept erroring out. I had to
do this weird work around:
EDIT > PREFERENCES > ADVANCED > HTTP NETWORKING
And select " IDENTIFY AS SEAMONKEY"
Close SM and re launch it, but now, I can't make a status on Facebook,
or even comment on posts!
Seems to me that the problem here is Facebook's failure to follow standards
and allow for graceful degradation, not Seamonkey. (Yeah, I know, sites
that do it properly these days are few and far between.)
E. Liddell
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