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How does Opera do the equivalent of these?
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: Ulysses_ on April 13, 2011, 02:11:30 PM ---Browsing in a virtual machine is prefered because of its extreme security*. So getting opera to fully function in a TC VM is very much desirable, as TC is very economical in memory so you can run several instances of TC in isolation from each other.
* any infection cannot access private data in the host, cannot infect the host, and cannot exist after a reboot if nonpersistence is selected).
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How would that compare from a security aspect to a chroot?
My estimation would be that vmware would be way more resource hungry, slower and also much more complicated to configure.
Harnessmaker:
--- Quote from: Ulysses_ on November 24, 2010, 01:50:30 PM ---3. Can flash supercookies/LSO's that normally remain stored forever making it possible to track and identify you and know all flash movies you've ever seen, be automatically deleted at the end of a session?
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Two methods which I know work generally, although you'd have to test them to be certain in this case:
1) To lose them at shutdown: Opera versions and install methods vary as to where they place the cache files. You can discover their location with Opera>MenuBar>Help>AboutOpera, in order to make sure that files you don't want backed up are correctly listed in your /opt/.xfiletool.lst.
2) If you want to lose them during a session: Opera>MenuBar>Tools>DeletePrivateData is a tool for removing cookies, cache, etc. during a session, and it also makes possible the deletion of vulnerable email passwords before opening dodgy mail. You can configure what is to be deleted.
(Bug note: Opera versions before the most recent have to be closed and reopened for passwords to be effectively removed by this method. Bug is fixed in 11.01.)
Harnessmaker:
--- Quote from: Harnessmaker on April 11, 2011, 06:14:38 PM ---Opera, in it's most recent version it's a virtually self-contained package, needing only libxft and of course bzip2 for unpacking.
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It seems I'm mistaken here: Only the libxft.tcz will be needed, as the capacity to unzip bzip2 files is already in TinyCore's base.
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: Harnessmaker on April 13, 2011, 02:18:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: tinypoodle on April 11, 2011, 08:45:52 PM ---Some observations:
That unpack command seems rather complex to me, I would simply
--- Code: ---tar xf operaversionname.linux.tar.bz2
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and no need to use sudo.
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Yes, thanks. Your command has unpacked the bzip2 Opera beautifully in /home/tc.
The more elaborate command developed (courtesy of emelfm2) because, in order to save ram, I would normally be downloading the tar.bzip2 file to a usb, which is then mechanically write-protected. The file is then unpacked by script into /home/tc/ by script at time of use.
In this scenario, my efforts to have the the tar -x -f work have so far been blocked by the write-protect.
I'm very new to scripting, so suggestions will be welcome.
Regards, Harnessmaker
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--- Code: ---tar xf operaversionname.linux.tar.bz2 -C ~/
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danielibarnes:
--- Quote from: Ulysses_ on April 13, 2011, 03:25:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: Rich on April 11, 2011, 11:24:37 PM ---You don't need alsa-oss.tcz, it runs with alsa.
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Can't hear anything with vmware hardware though. Anyone got alsa to work in a vmware VM?
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OSS works fine in VMware Player, and alsa worked after I ran alsaconf.
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