@dimkr :-
dimkr wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:05 am
You'll need to run them as spot, they refuse to run as root (that's normal, true for any distro).
You'll need to do something like setup-spot google-chrome=true
or setup-spot vivaldi=true
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Mm. Well, yes.....technically. But even today Chrome CAN still be run as '/root' IF so desired. The exec line from a modified 'root' version of my Chrome-portable looks like this:-
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"$HERE/chrome/chrome" --user-data-dir=$HERE/PROFILE/google-chrome --test-type --no-sandbox --disable-infobars "$@"
It's the "--test-type" switch that's the magic ingredient. Don't ask me what it does (Phil B. first brought it to the community's attention in the early days of the Chrome-portable thread)....but afterwards you can run Chrome as 'root' in Puppy without complaints. (--disable-infobars is kinda redundant nowadays, since it's deprecated. I'm just too lazy to remove it.....and it doesn't seem to hurt, even so.)
(The only downside to doing this is that the browser then won't let you sign-in to any Google-related services.....but if you don't use their services, you're laughing.)
Big Brother is absolutely determined he's going to protect you from the consequences of your own foolishness, one way or another.....whether you like it, or not! ![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
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@pemasu :-
bbe hasn't worked for the last 3 or 4 years.....not for me, anyway. I gave up on it in the end, and accepted the inevitable transition to running as a 'restricted' user. My Chrome-portable contains its own 'mini' spot directory, and sets its own permissions as the 'LAUNCH' wrapper-script executes. All config stuff remains completely self-contained.
As it stands, running as root is, in fact, relatively easy with the currently-available "--switches".
Mike. ![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)