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  1. Omni Omni

    Web, still a better browser than IE. http://ur1.ca/ailks

    Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:44:07 UTC from web
    1. Toothpaste Pony! Toothpaste Pony!

      @omni Isn't that based on webkit?

      Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:44:37 UTC from web
      1. Omni Omni

        @minti I honestly have no clue, it behaves somewhat Chrome-like and is quick, though.

        Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:50:09 UTC from web
    2. derp derp

      @omni lol poor IE

      Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:44:42 UTC from web
      1. Omni Omni

        @jojoax IE doesn't have anything against Web's features. It allows you to visit websites, go back, go forward, refresh and turn a webpage into a "web app" which adds it to your list of applications (as a gentle "LOOK I CAN DO THIS TOO INTERNET EXPLORER" nod). Besides that, there isn't really much to do.

        Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:49:40 UTC from web
    3. rising superstar autumn rising superstar autumn

      @omni Very... minimalist. But I think I'll stick to Opera and Chrome.

      Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:46:27 UTC from MuSTArDroid
      1. Omni Omni

        @lovetolerateandsquee Web wasn't made for people who want to choose their own homepage and extensively tweak their browser. Being completely honest, though, Web is a browser I would recommend to a beginning computer user. There is literally almost nothing they can break.

        Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:48:09 UTC from web
        1. rising superstar autumn rising superstar autumn

          @omni Assuming a beginning computer user is running Linux.

          Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:49:32 UTC from MuSTArDroid
          1. Omni Omni

            @lovetolerateandsquee That Windows is the most dominant OS doesn't mean others can't use something else. Computers with other OSses are sold all the time.

            Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:50:46 UTC from web
            1. rising superstar autumn rising superstar autumn

              @omni Right, but I'd expect a beginning user to be on Windows, or in some cases Mac.

              Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:51:54 UTC from MuSTArDroid
              1. Omni Omni

                @lovetolerateandsquee The point was that the browser was beginner-proof, not that most people don't run the OS the browser runs on :P

                Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:52:45 UTC from web
                1. Omni Omni

                  @omni There's one thing I'd wish for, though: private browsing/disabling history/REMOVING HISTORY. Not for the stuff you normally use it for, but Freenet recommends private browsing, for whatever reason :X

                  Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:56:44 UTC from web
                  1. Techdisk Techdisk

                    @omni freenet, hm? I should try that...

                    Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:14:58 UTC from web
                    1. Omni Omni

                      @techdisk Let me warn you about this: You have no control over what Freenet stores on your system, and you will become a node, so your system will kinda do basic P2P-like stuff to transfer popular files as well. The first week Freenet will be extremely slow and fail often, as it discovers where everyone is on the network (in this way: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Freenet_Request_Sequence_ZP.svg). Many freesites will be hosting content which is either illegal or offensive to you, so do not just follow every link you see if you don't have a description of what it will be like (yes, we're even talking about stuff like child pornography. If you just read before you click you will be fine (like I have been), but please make sure to be careful with clicking stuff). The forums can be interesting, though, I love reading conspiracy theories, but it took me a week before I could seriously use the forum :P

                      Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:20:05 UTC from web
                      1. Techdisk Techdisk

                        @omni hmmmm... IDEA! Ill intall it on archbang in a seprate partition.

                        Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:22:10 UTC from web
                        1. Techdisk Techdisk

                          @techdisk or... i dunno.

                          Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:23:40 UTC from web
                        2. Omni Omni

                          @techdisk You'll have to use yaourt or something similar: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25644. To access Freenet after it's installed, you'll have to open http://127.0.0.1:8888/ in your browser.

                          Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:25:25 UTC from web
                          1. Techdisk Techdisk

                            @omni hmmm. Is it easy to remove if i find its not to my liking?

                            Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:26:50 UTC from web
                            1. Techdisk Techdisk

                              @techdisk i mean on both windows and linux?

                              Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:27:04 UTC from web
                          2. Omni Omni

                            @omni @techdisk Seems ArchBang comes with packer, so, assuming it uses the Arch repositories, "sudo packer -S freenet" should work. Removing it would be "sudo packer -R freenet" or "sudo packer -R --nosave freenet" if you also want to remove the configuration settings, most likely. I haven't used Packer, though, so I could be wrong.

                            Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:27:37 UTC from web
                            1. Bit Shift Bit Shift

                              @omni You don't need sudo with packer, it automatically invokes it if it wasn't called as root.

                              Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:28:42 UTC from web
                              1. Omni Omni

                                @bitshift Oh, I see. Thanks for that explanation /cc @techdisk

                                Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:29:03 UTC from web
                            2. Bit Shift Bit Shift

                              @omni @techdisk Also, you have to do -R commands directly via pacman (which does require sudo), which annoys me rather a lot, especially since I would otherwise have no qualms recommending it over yaourt. :(

                              Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:30:14 UTC from web
                              1. Techdisk Techdisk

                                @bitshift i might just actually use windows for this, i think...

                                Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:30:41 UTC from web
                              2. Techdisk Techdisk

                                ok, i think im just gonna download freenet for windows.

                                Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 19:39:39 UTC from web
                              3. Techdisk Techdisk

                                @bitshift @omni So, i installed freenet on windows. what do?

                                Thursday, 11-Oct-12 00:34:33 UTC from web
                                1. Omni Omni

                                  @techdisk Open your browser in private browsing mode and go to http://127.0.0.1:8888/ or http://localhost:8888/ (whichever you prefer, they both mean the same).

                                  Thursday, 11-Oct-12 05:44:21 UTC from web
                                  1. Toothpaste Pony! Toothpaste Pony!

                                    @omni http://[::1]:8888/

                                    Thursday, 11-Oct-12 05:46:22 UTC from web
                                    1. Omni Omni

                                      @minti Ah, so THAT is how you enter IPv6 addresses in your address bar. I was already wondering.

                                      Thursday, 11-Oct-12 05:47:43 UTC from web
                                      1. Toothpaste Pony! Toothpaste Pony!

                                        @omni I actually just learnt that myself. I was like "Hmm, what other ways is there to access localhost? Hostname and DHCP-assigned IP but those are dynamic and change per system... oh! IPv6 loopback! Then looked it up.

                                        Thursday, 11-Oct-12 05:50:06 UTC from web
                2. rising superstar autumn rising superstar autumn

                  @omni Well then yes. I've used Web, and I agree. (In related news, I'm thinking of getting my grandparents to try Ubuntu, I think they'd like it.)

                  Wednesday, 10-Oct-12 18:57:24 UTC from MuSTArDroid