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Pocket Browser

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https://github.com/PocketStudios/Pocket-Browser

Has anyone tried this yet? The appimage works for me, ( Using LxSc64 ), but my attempt at converting to an sfs didn't as I get permission problems when
trying to load the sfs.

Classic Design.
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Re: Pocket Browser

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Hmmm...maybe a work in progress. While it detects youtube videos playing, and has a download popup, no success yet in downloading anything.

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Re: Pocket Browser

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Definitely a work in progress.

ATM, no page zoom function. On a 1920 x 1080 22" monitor, text - for me - is so small as to be almost unreadable. And currently, you can't sign in to anything Google-related, which cuts out around half of my functionality as things stand....

Runs nicely in 'portable' format, though. And it IS fast.

Thanks for digging this up!

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Re: Pocket Browser

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muggins wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 9:39 am

The appimage works for me, ( Using LxSc64

Where did you get the appimage? I don't see it on the github page.

EDIT: Nevermind! I see it.

Downloaded the appimage and made it executable, but doesn't seem to want to fire up on KLV-Spectrwm, I'll try another distro.

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Re: Pocket Browser

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@geo_c :-

What d'you get if you start it from the terminal?

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Re: Pocket Browser

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be right back with a report...

Just ran it in terminal in F96

It looks like it has to be run with --no sandbox
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Got it now. I forgot I even downloaded it, I got busy with work today.

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Re: Pocket Browser

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Okay I'm posting to the forum from it now.

It has potential, but I'd say it's kind of still at the annoying stage. A little wonky figuring out bookmarks, home page only seems to be able to be set to google, bing, or duck duck go. But it's lean and fast.

I've always been an 'early adopter' of new ideas, so I think we should somehow encourage whoever is building this browser.

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