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2019-08-18 , 20:55
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#3285
Originally Posted by Maemish View Post
These just lack the instructions to change to the debian archives but if one just wants to use Netsurf it is better not to change to archives for there becomes easily many problems when installing there (like 20 times installed ED again after breaking it).
I have no idea what you're talking about.

Originally Posted by Maemish View Post
And for me I always have to "groupadd crontab" in chroot first when using the juicemes jessie2sulu img. because otherwise the installing stuff won't work.
It's true that "user" under ED is not a member of a group "crontab", but neither is this the case under Maemo.
I don't know what's going on there for you.

Originally Posted by Maemish View Post
But could this Juiceme instructions be modified to install netsurf 3.9?
Sure. Just use the packages of my 1st archive in his step 5.
That being said, I don't know why he's talking about dbus problems. dbus and dbus-x11 should be installed in the image according to [1].

Originally Posted by Maemish View Post
(or make an updated image to download with ED)
I could probably do that some time in the future, but there's not much reason for doing that. Jessie is "old-oldstable" by now, so there's not a lot going on in it anymore.
As I said earlier, we're all riding a dead horse here.

Originally Posted by Maemish View Post
One question though: what is the benefit of changing from 3.8 to 3.9?
Honestly, I have no idea. I try to avoid browsing the web from the N900 whenever I can (mostly I can).
I'm not building netsurf because I use it a lot. For me this is more like a sport than a necessity. I believe netsurf is the last remaining actually usefull browser for the N900 and updating it from time to time is sort of a hobby of mine - just like others collect stamps. I just rebased it on openssl 1.1 because I saw bradvesp's thread and I liked the challenge.

Originally Posted by Maemish View Post
I mean with 3.8 still many things wont work (videos, some sites not working properly) and if this is the case with 3.9 too I'm interested to know what is better then, why to change.
Netsurf isn't meant to be a feature-complete browser like Firefox or Chromium. So a lot of things will never work. Video is one of them. This minimalism is a reason why it's so fast (and therefore still usable on the N900).
The benefit of updating from 3.8 to 3.9 might be, that upstream fixed some security issues (I'm just guessing here), and in the context of my openssl change some more websites might work now than before.
But really, if you're concerend about security, you shouldn't touch the N900 with a 10m pole!

Originally Posted by Maemish View Post
Tried your transfer.sh links with microb, opera and netsurf. Files not found. Is it because browsers? Can someone confirm success downloading files?
The links work for me in all three browsers.


[1] http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=3138
 

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