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Pocket Browser

Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 9:39 am
by muggins

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.
Chromium-Based without Google's Services and their tracking services.
Much faster than Chrome.
Open-Source hearts
Built-in Ad Block, Video Downloader,..
Built-in Chromecast
Move to mobile with a simple QR Scan
Download Manager
Find in Page, Zoom, ...


Re: Pocket Browser

Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 12:10 pm
by muggins

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


Re: Pocket Browser

Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 1:06 pm
by mikewalsh

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!

Mike. ;)


Re: Pocket Browser

Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 1:47 pm
by geo_c
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.


Re: Pocket Browser

Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 1:58 am
by mikewalsh

@geo_c :-

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

Mike. ;)


Re: Pocket Browser

Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 2:02 am
by geo_c

be right back with a report...

Just ran it in terminal in F96

It looks like it has to be run with --no sandbox
Image


Re: Pocket Browser

Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 2:10 am
by geo_c

Got it now. I forgot I even downloaded it, I got busy with work today.

Image


Re: Pocket Browser

Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 2:21 am
by geo_c

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.