Opera Printing Workaround & FoxyFun extra_distros
Posted: Tue 04 Jan 2011, 21:39
Hi all,
I rarely print from any browser, and have never tried from Opera. And now that someone's mentioned it, I recall a problem with html files saved using Opera. I'll keep TheAsterisk!'s MHTML suggestion in mind. Thanks.
But although Opera is my first choice of browsers, one of the reasons I retain/install Firefox is that it has a "Save as PDF" Addon. So what I usually do when I run across a webpage I want to keep is open Firefox, copy the webpage address from Opera into Firefox's Address Bar, open to that page in Firefox, and use "Save as PDF." I guess you could alternatively use Firefox's superior printing facility.
During the last couple of days I've been experimenting with DaveS's Foxyfun, with a view toward developing an extra_distro's Pet if DaveS didn't.
The result was that I have five Puplets using, via symlinks, the same .mozilla folder so that there's only one set of setting preferences, addons and bookmarks. Creating an extra_distro's pet appears to be fairly easy. Except for one thing. I began experimenting before my over-indulgence in New Year's consumption had dissipated.(':oops:') Not realizing that DaveS had included a .mozilla folder within /mnt/home/browsers --well it was a hidden(':o') -- I created a different .mozilla folder to which all appropriate symlinks pointed.
The best thing for me to do is start from scratch. But now that I have everything working well on my test-Linux computer, I am reluctant to use it for this experiment: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." So I installed Playdaz's Lupu-519 and 01micko's sPup-053 on my "main computer" --the one I rarely get to use-- and have installed Foxyfun pet in Lupu-519, with the view to developing the extra-distos pet on sPup-053. Neither of those Puplets have Firefox pre-installed, making it easier to track modifications.
@ DaveS, a couple of questions and recommendations:
FoxyFun is your pet, and you're more experienced than I in this area, especially as you've developed the Opera_extra_distros pet, So if you intend to develop a FoxyFun_extra_distros pet in the near future, I'll defer to your expertise and assist in any way that I can. But as I mentioned before I really think this is an important project worth pursuing. For those of us who run or test various Puplets, when it comes to internet browsers --as they'll be put to frequent use regardless of which Puplet we boots into-- mnt/home program-folders are far superior to SFSes. So let me know if you have time in the near future to work on the extra_distro's pet, especially if you think my SECOND and THIRD suggestions regarding the modifications of the FoxyFun pet are possible and worth pursuing. Those are far beyond my ability.
1) As it is now constructed, installing FoxyFun creates the "browsers" folder in mnt/home. The name is too generic. I'd recommend something like "Foxyfun" or "FoxyHome."
2) As it is now constructed, FoxyFun creates the .mozilla folder in the "browsers" folder. Would it be possible to create a FFoxConfig Folder on mnt/home, and move .mozilla into it? See my discussion a couple posts back regarding the ease with which Iron can be upgraded when the "config" files are kept separate.
3) As it is now constructed, FoxyFun creates a symlink in / to its .mozilla folder. Would it be possible to change the name of the .mozilla folder and the symlink, or at least the name of the symlink? As you can't have a file and a symlink or two symlinks with the same name, in the same folder, I suspect problems would arise if someone had or subsequently installed another Firefox and wanted to keep both, or wanted to test a Firefox SFS. And doesn't Seamonkey also use the .mozilla folder? Or maybe it would be possible to have the symlink other than in /?
4) To distinguish it from other firefox installations, the desktop files should have a unique name, such as FoxyFun. So that it not become lost at the bottom of the Internet Submenu, the first letter should continue to be capitalized.
5) Its icon should be recognizable as, but distinct from, that of Firefox. I've attached one I found on the web that you might consider.
I installed Foxyfun on the Lupu-519 mentioned above. It opened to the index page of this forum. Did you set that as its "Home Page?"
mikesLr
I rarely print from any browser, and have never tried from Opera. And now that someone's mentioned it, I recall a problem with html files saved using Opera. I'll keep TheAsterisk!'s MHTML suggestion in mind. Thanks.
But although Opera is my first choice of browsers, one of the reasons I retain/install Firefox is that it has a "Save as PDF" Addon. So what I usually do when I run across a webpage I want to keep is open Firefox, copy the webpage address from Opera into Firefox's Address Bar, open to that page in Firefox, and use "Save as PDF." I guess you could alternatively use Firefox's superior printing facility.
During the last couple of days I've been experimenting with DaveS's Foxyfun, with a view toward developing an extra_distro's Pet if DaveS didn't.
The result was that I have five Puplets using, via symlinks, the same .mozilla folder so that there's only one set of setting preferences, addons and bookmarks. Creating an extra_distro's pet appears to be fairly easy. Except for one thing. I began experimenting before my over-indulgence in New Year's consumption had dissipated.(':oops:') Not realizing that DaveS had included a .mozilla folder within /mnt/home/browsers --well it was a hidden(':o') -- I created a different .mozilla folder to which all appropriate symlinks pointed.
The best thing for me to do is start from scratch. But now that I have everything working well on my test-Linux computer, I am reluctant to use it for this experiment: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." So I installed Playdaz's Lupu-519 and 01micko's sPup-053 on my "main computer" --the one I rarely get to use-- and have installed Foxyfun pet in Lupu-519, with the view to developing the extra-distos pet on sPup-053. Neither of those Puplets have Firefox pre-installed, making it easier to track modifications.
@ DaveS, a couple of questions and recommendations:
FoxyFun is your pet, and you're more experienced than I in this area, especially as you've developed the Opera_extra_distros pet, So if you intend to develop a FoxyFun_extra_distros pet in the near future, I'll defer to your expertise and assist in any way that I can. But as I mentioned before I really think this is an important project worth pursuing. For those of us who run or test various Puplets, when it comes to internet browsers --as they'll be put to frequent use regardless of which Puplet we boots into-- mnt/home program-folders are far superior to SFSes. So let me know if you have time in the near future to work on the extra_distro's pet, especially if you think my SECOND and THIRD suggestions regarding the modifications of the FoxyFun pet are possible and worth pursuing. Those are far beyond my ability.
1) As it is now constructed, installing FoxyFun creates the "browsers" folder in mnt/home. The name is too generic. I'd recommend something like "Foxyfun" or "FoxyHome."
2) As it is now constructed, FoxyFun creates the .mozilla folder in the "browsers" folder. Would it be possible to create a FFoxConfig Folder on mnt/home, and move .mozilla into it? See my discussion a couple posts back regarding the ease with which Iron can be upgraded when the "config" files are kept separate.
3) As it is now constructed, FoxyFun creates a symlink in / to its .mozilla folder. Would it be possible to change the name of the .mozilla folder and the symlink, or at least the name of the symlink? As you can't have a file and a symlink or two symlinks with the same name, in the same folder, I suspect problems would arise if someone had or subsequently installed another Firefox and wanted to keep both, or wanted to test a Firefox SFS. And doesn't Seamonkey also use the .mozilla folder? Or maybe it would be possible to have the symlink other than in /?
4) To distinguish it from other firefox installations, the desktop files should have a unique name, such as FoxyFun. So that it not become lost at the bottom of the Internet Submenu, the first letter should continue to be capitalized.
5) Its icon should be recognizable as, but distinct from, that of Firefox. I've attached one I found on the web that you might consider.
I installed Foxyfun on the Lupu-519 mentioned above. It opened to the index page of this forum. Did you set that as its "Home Page?"
mikesLr