ChromiYum on Ubuntu
Leave a CommentWith a previous, or current build (4.0.251.0) of Chromium Web Browser on Ubuntu (Xubuntu / 9.10 Karmic), one can disable/enable Javascript and/or pass other options to Chromium via /etc/chromium-browser/default:
# Options to pass to chromium-browser
CHROMIUM_FLAGS=”-disable-javascript”
Great for testing the Chromi-Yum browser. Javascript is enabled by default. For some reason there is no option to disable Java or Javascript in the GUI, yet?
Some of the available switches:
disable-dev-tools
disable-images
disable-java
disable-javascript
disable-logging
disable-metrics
disable-metrics-reporting
disable-plugins
disable-popup-blocking
disable-prompt-on-repost
dns-log-details
dns-prefetch-disable
dump-histograms-on-exit
enable-file-cookies
enable-javascript
enable-logging
first-run
gears-in-renderer
gears-plugin-path
hide-icons
in-process-plugins
javascript-debugger-path
js-flags
lang
no-events
no-sandbox
playback-mode
process-per-site
process-per-tab
record-mode
restore-last-session
safe-plugins
show-icons
start-maximized
tab-count-to-load-on-session-restore
test-sandbox
trusted-plugins
uninstall
upload-file
Alphabet Soupla
Leave a CommentRecently revisited Kubuntu (blue), and Linux Mint (green), and did a quick look see at the latest release of each, via Karmic 9.10, followed by Mint 7 Gloria. I’ve inserted the default desktop colors for chuckles, because people always seem to ask about that? Folks, you can change the desktop you know.
Both distros have some nice features and eye-popping desktops. For my personal use, I would need to tweak, add, and/or remove too many applications for me to adopt either as my own. I don’t hesitate to, and have in the past recommended both of these distros to users who are new to the Linux desktop experience.
The distro review man, Dan Lynch of Linux Outlaws, has covered both Linux Mint 7, and Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 (brown) in depth. Run over there, yes right now, for more information.
I still plan to revisit Mandriva, time permitting. The last time I ran Mandriva on one of my systems, it was Mandrake.
Update: November 16th, 2009:
Dan Lynch of Linux Outlaws recently did an in depth review of Mandriva One 2010, as well. Thinking I may skip a quick live look at this one, for now.
It’s still all about choice. Linux just happens to have an abundance of choices. I currently run, sprint, fly with Xubuntu (blue) on the laptop and !#Crunchbang (black) on the desktop. Both are nimble, and lean!
Karmic Face
Not many changes in the Xubuntu Karmic U/I? What’s new and interesting under the hood?
October 16th, 2009
Experimented with Alpha 6 on a USB stick, but I’ve not had enough time to really dig into it. Have not located the hood latch, yet?
October 20th, 2009
I decided to upgrade 9.04 => 9.10 Beta just days before the RC, and the upcoming release on October 29th. The upgrade completed without a hitch. Praise be unto the developers. It is fast. It is shiny.
October 23th, 2009
Noticed minor error when running GVim from cmdlin. It was ticketed already.
October 28th, 2009
After system update, I believe I am now running the RC.
November 3rd, 2009
Still have yet to update to the full 9.10 release. Noting: some people are very strange.
November 10th, 2009
Updated to the full Xubuntu 9.10 release on two machines.
New Xfce Power Manager ++
Xfce Window Manager ~ set to Albatross ++
Exaile Music Player – Experimenting a bit, it’s so’k.
Jaunty, We Can’t Hear You
Fade in. It all began on a Monday, not so very long ago. It was just after an Xubuntu 9.04 standard update, but before the latest kernel updates. Xfce4 started acting up, not remembering sessions, and taking a very long time to load its spartan desktop.
Let the tweaking begin. After much sweat, and screams of frustration, and several reboots, the Jackalope whelped, and headed out running for the hills. We don’t have enough time to play your Jaunty jiggle right now, so it’s a new install for you. Let the good times roll.
The reckoning. During the Xubuntu 9.04 install, the CD stalled repeatedly at the tzone selector [big sparkly world map]. This trusty old soul of a desktop started out with Dapper 6.06 LTS, was
upgraded to 8.04 Hardy LTS, then upgraded to 8.10 Intrepid, then upgraded to 9.04 Jaunty. It appears I cannot install Jaunty on this machine with a 9.04 CD. “Nuked the fridge”. Bleck.
The fallback. Proceeded to install Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. Fine. Upgrade to 9.04. Fine, mostly. But, we have no sound. I got this working so, so, long ago. Can’t remember how. Spend way too much time jiggling jaunty bits. We have sound! I don’t know when, what, how, or why the sound switch was finally flipped. I cry.
When I have some free time, I might like to repeat the process, slow down, pay attention, and write down the steps. *Write!* Or maybe not.
The moral. Two writes don’t make a read.
Twits Peak
Heard through the grapevine. Twitter *may* have peaked in March, 2009.
Update: June 26, 2009 Someone said, “approximately 60% of new Twitter users do not return much, if at all after initial sign-up”. I bet the numbers are similar for many of the on-line watering holes.
Weathering Nature
Since I no longer live in Southern California, no need to be concerned over June-gloom, or the Santa Ana winds, or the earthquakes.
But today is June 1st, and that marks the start of another hurricane season for Floridians. Time for the 24/7 news tracking of every tropical depression that forms in the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Florida straits, and the Gulf of Mexico. From now until early November those depressions just keep forming, and threatening a very broad area of the globe. Here is hoping each depression tries its best to remain a depression and does not grow up to be a hurricane. The predictions are for an average to below average season. Hope so. Still, we expect the weather reporting barrage to be as relentless as ever. It doesn’t matter which US state we reside in, each has its own time and form of violent weather. We just weather on with Mother Nature calling the shots.
Living on the big peninsula this time of year means stocking/re-stocking water and non-perishable food to last for 72 hours, First-Aid kit, clothing, blue tarps, plywood, battery operated radios, flashlights and batteries. Throw in some extra cash and a full tank of gas. We have been spared pretty much since 2004. Looking for more of the same, kind treatment. ~ Please.
