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Fifth browser rockin' my world
PDP-8:
Wow, really love it. Although I'm having a hard time finding any docs for it, but fumbling my way through.
I'm not sure this is the best place to discuss it generally either - if there is a better place other than just bug reports to github, let me know.
In the meantime, I'm overjoyed to get my html / css practice in on local files as well as general purpose browsing too.
Tip #1
Couldn't find the File > Open option, nor does CTRL-O seem to work, so I did it the canonical way to open files locally in the url bar. Note the *triple* slash
--- Code: (bash) ---file:///home/tc/index.html
--- End code ---
Erm, it isn't a bash script, just showing the url entry to fire up my own index.html file.
Tip #2
Using the mouse to control the scrollwheel works, but if you aren't careful, you can zoom the page too quickly, and the browser now chugs away forever on large pages with a lot of content.
Solution is to click the center of the zoomwheel, and then use left/right arrow keys for finer control of zooming. As indicated by the zoomwheel itself, just double-click the center of it to return to your native resolution.
Again, I don't know if this is a proper place to discuss the Fifth browser. I **love** it and know it is a work in progress.
curaga:
It doesn't have a forum/ml. There are docs on the blocking and proxies in the source, doc/, but otherwise none. The UI and keybindings are based on Opera 9, so Opera docs may be of some use.
PDP-8:
Thanks - I'll look around. The more I work with it the more I like it.
I was bummed that it wouldn't run my favorite javascript trick of turning a page into a full screen editor even with javascript enabled. Maybe someday...
In the spirit of TC, who needs an extension or add-on for the editor already built into your browser: (this basically turns your entire page into a comment box locally):
Pop this into the url bar:
--- Code: (bash) ---data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
--- End code ---
Click on the page and start typing. Note the *comma* and not a semicolon! This is the simplest invocation, you can tweak this to your liking with differnt fonts, colors, document sizes etc. Normally this js is buried in the html code, but it works in the url bar directly on most browsers as a nifty trick.
Use ctrl +/- to zoom font to your liking
Ctrl-s to save
ctrl-o to open
ctrl-f to find
copy and paste from web pages to your notes. Put the editor url into a separate tab if you like, bookmark etc.
I love Fifth's ability to set js, css etc per-page feature, but I'll wait to see if this ever comes about. Very handy.
coreplayer2:
I used TC with firefox to open and modify word documents and spreadsheets in Office 365 (Microsoft Office online) when I needed to submit work to the corporate office. Really, there's very few limitations with tinycore.
PDP-8:
Gulp - I forgot to mention that I'm using ARM (as well as TC x86), and I'm kind of limited in the browser dept on ARM. :)
But yes, TC is what one makes of it. You bring up an interesting side-configuration I didn't think about: kernel + browser + stripped userland
While this would be an anethema to most of us, what about a chrome-book like TC configuration stripped of almost everthing but the Firefox browser extension - and perhaps just an "update" button for the wBAR? Maybe put any persistent data on an encrypted filesystem. Chrome book like environment for those that dig that.
Hmm.. then maybe a "special" repo so they won't try to install gawk accidentally if they want some sort of "firefox" extension..
Your file browser is the url of [file:///] or ctrl-o or whatever..
The text editor for simple notes can be done like previously mentioned. In fact, this was a neat trick garnered from a chromebook of mine. Try to make the browser do all the heavy lifting..
Heresy!
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