firefox is fine
chrome perfect
opera functional

Konqueror won't let me chat with other gmail users like the other 3 will
is there some package I can add
I'm using Magiea, which is a mandriva fork, so it would be some sort of rpm

another browser would be fine
I trying to manage multiple google accounts, without sign in madness

Isn't there some formidable firefox plugin which allow for a sane solution of that problem? I think I've seen some.

Look at this, for example:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ookieswap/

Greetings

scummos wrote:Isn't there some formidable firefox plugin which allow for a sane solution of that problem? I think I've seen some.

Look at this, for example:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ookieswap/

Greetings

we're sharing a pc between three people
so it's nice for each person to have their own selfcontained workspace
when I have 2 instances of FF open they have to be on the same profile
which would require my wife to switch profiles,not really gonna work
nice try though

That isn't the case.

You can run multiple Firefox instances at once - using different profiles. Be aware that applications which try to open urls using Firefox will use the first opened instance however.

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firefox -no-remote -profile <profile name>

possibilities:
- some browsers provide development versions that will run in parallel to the standard version ex Opera-next http://www.opera.com/browser/next/, possibly FireFox Nightly http://nightly.mozilla.org/
- Chrome has a community version Chromium and as well as it's version Chrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ ... ogleChrome. Note: most distro's ship Chromium so you'd need to get Chrome from Google https://tools.google.com/chrome
- Wine seems to run browsers pretty well iirc
- There are portable version of some browsers that can be run in parallel http://portablelinuxapps.org/network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Portable
- Installing and running multiple versions of Firefox. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 1276fe812a

bcooksley wrote:That isn't the case.

You can run multiple Firefox instances at once - using different profiles. Be aware that applications which try to open urls using Firefox will use the first opened instance however.

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firefox -no-remote -profile <profile name>

I can run multiple instances of FF
the profile is synchronized on all of them

google01103 wrote:possibilities:
- some browsers provide development versions that will run in parallel to the standard version ex Opera-next http://www.opera.com/browser/next/, possibly FireFox Nightly http://nightly.mozilla.org/
- Chrome has a community version Chromium and as well as it's version Chrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ ... ogleChrome. Note: most distro's ship Chromium so you'd need to get Chrome from Google https://tools.google.com/chrome
- Wine seems to run browsers pretty well iirc
- There are portable version of some browsers that can be run in parallel http://portablelinuxapps.org/network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Portable
- Installing and running multiple versions of Firefox. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 1276fe812a

google01103 wrote:possibilities:
- some browsers provide development versions that will run in parallel to the standard version ex Opera-next http://www.opera.com/browser/next/, possibly FireFox Nightly http://nightly.mozilla.org/
- Chrome has a community version Chromium and as well as it's version Chrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ ... ogleChrome. Note: most distro's ship Chromium so you'd need to get Chrome from Google https://tools.google.com/chrome
- Wine seems to run browsers pretty well iirc
- There are portable version of some browsers that can be run in parallel http://portablelinuxapps.org/network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Portable
- Installing and running multiple versions of Firefox. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 1276fe812a

I would prefer not to cause confusion with FF, my wife maintains her websites with it

Opera isn't fully functional with blogger & is hit or miss on some of the other google products, I've been trying to use it for my personal mail & some surfing [I'm on Opera now]

We use Chromium for a blog & to manage picasa webalbums, which have their own gmail

I hadn't considered using chrome proper or one of the development builds
I'll spend some time on that later

I'm not much for using wine, it's too buggy. I have a proper XP on it's own HDD, for when I just have to use windows [which is almost never]

we've reached a compromise for now
our friend who is here for an extended stay, really just wants to check her gmail & chat/text
chromium will let 2 gmails be open
she doesn't really use other G stuff
I would like everyone to have their own virtualdesktop

I really like the way that KDE opens to the last state
Clementine [amarock grinds my system to a halt] opens on what ever VD is open, I wouldn't mind figuring that out
so far enjoying life on Mageia1 kde, I'm trying to learn the K equivalent of the different gnome stuff I'm used to

Okay, a little late but you could have tried:

arora
chromium
epiphany
geeqie
midori
rekonq
surf
uzbl

To name but a few.

google01103 wrote:possibilities:
- some browsers provide development versions that will run in parallel to the standard version ex Opera-next http://www.opera.com/browser/next/, possibly FireFox Nightly http://nightly.mozilla.org/
- Chrome has a community version Chromium and as well as it's version Chrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ ... ogleChrome. Note: most distro's ship Chromium so you'd need to get Chrome from Google https://tools.google.com/chrome
- Wine seems to run browsers pretty well iirc
- There are portable version of some browsers that can be run in parallel http://portablelinuxapps.org/network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Portable
- Installing and running multiple versions of Firefox. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 1276fe812a

chrome is just what we needed
I would be even happier if I could have 4 instances of chromium running

toad wrote:Okay, a little late but you could have tried:

arora
chromium
epiphany
geeqie
midori
rekonq
surf
uzbl

To name but a few.

Actually only chromium will open the google chat interface...

What, seriously??? But epiphany is (or was aeons ago) the default gnome browser! Midori is also a full blown browsing beast and rekonq is also a webkit do it all... Oh well, glad you got it sorted

toad wrote:What, seriously??? But epiphany is (or was aeons ago) the default gnome browser! Midori is also a full blown browsing beast and rekonq is also a webkit do it all... Oh well, glad you got it sorted

epiphany & Midori are gnomecentric
I have had much luck getting gtk stuff to run on KDE

I could use a bit of help understanding tar balls to extract with ark
I downloaded rekonq from source forge & would like to give it a go
I told it to extract, with the default settings on ark
when I go to the extracted file & check permissions, I don't see a checkbox to make it executable
what would I open with or otherwise make it install?

Is it not in your repos? To make something executable do

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chmod +x /path/to/file/filename

toad wrote:Is it not in your repos? To make something executable do

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chmod +x /path/to/file/filename

What would the terminal phobic do?
it's odd to have to open a dos prompt to do something as basic as install software?