Why I replaced the browser on the new Pinebook Pro
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Vivaldi QA engineer Ruari Ødegaard sprinkles more fun in his testing with a new machine, the Pinebook Pro 64. Here’s why he replaced its Chromium 72 browser with Vivaldi right away.
Click here to see the full blog post
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Talking about oneself in third-person is the first sign of megalomania!
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@pathduck: With Ruari this is just one of many signs!
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I can see why we don't have M3 yet!
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@Pathduck Not a shrink, our Linux is perfectionist hence no room for "segfault"
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@olli Really?! He is pretty fast to kill the bug, well not all the time. Good to see you
Edited: correct icon Url
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Why I replaced the browser on the new Pinebook Pro:
@npro said in Why I replaced the browser on the new Pinebook Pro:
we don't have M3 yet!
Well, because it is really M2.997 yet.
Cool - only three builds away!
(Unless M2.999 is followed by M2.9991...)
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Do you use Slackware on the Pinebook?
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@mossman Why should come 2.9991 right after 2.999? It’s 2.1000, isn’t it?
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You should enable Wayland support in your builds That will likely make the experience even smoother on low-end hardware.
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Thanks for the blog post, Ruari! I wasn't aware of Pine64, but will be sure to spend more time learning about them. After nine years of operation, my old Acer Aspire One (running Q4OS Linux) is starting to show signs of its age. I wasn't sure what I would be happy replacing it with, but the Pinebook certainly seems like a good candidate.
Can you share more details about the Pinebook's OS?
David.
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cause chromium is useless and replacing it with literally anything improves your UX
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Let us "we love anything that lets us tinker, tweak" to our heart's content!
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I'm on aarch64 (android & rpi4 linux) it's superb!
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@verbovet: I haven't tried with Slackware yet. Still have the default distro which is a tweaked debian
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@dbouley: It is just a tweaked debian but in the long run I will likely replace it. Several distros are available for ARM
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@ruario: What distros are available for it? Have you tried any?
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I don't understand the first comment. I saw nothing in the third person. Surely the intro was an intro? Please elucidate.
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I do use VIVALDI on my pinebook pro. But widevine drm does not seem to work. I made a symlink of WidevineCdm.so in opt/vivaldi to usr/lib/chromium-browser/libwidewinecdm.so. But videos at https://demo.castlabs.com with drm do not play.
What am I missing? Can you help me please?Vivaldi 2.10.1745.26 (Stable channel) (32-bit)
Revision 182b46dfa34819c30511128cebe63e8375d8e6af
OS Linux
JavaScript V8 7.9.317.32
Flash (Disabled)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.118 Safari/537.36
Command Line /usr/bin/vivaldi --use-gl=egl --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-webrtc-apm-in-audio-service --save-page-as-mhtml
Executable Path /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi
Profile Path /home/rock/.config/vivaldi/Default -
@Ruarí All things cool with the Pinebook Pro. What about the Pine Phone? Can Vivaldi be installed there? Could be a serious deal "sealer" for me at least
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