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charliebrownau

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From: Australia

Registered: 2022-04-14

Posts: 62  

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Re: Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave

Gday
Iridium is outdated

I used to recommend it

Now I recommend
Librewolf
https://librewolf.net/installation/

and
Ungoogled chromium
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/u … d-chromium

Marjorie

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From: Teignmouth, UK

Registered: 2019-06-09

Posts: 221  

Re: Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave

I would be interested in having Ungoogled Chromium since I use firefox-esr with security/privacy extensions and there are a small number of commercial websites that don't play ball. I'm not keen on using the standard chromium deb in the Chimaera repositories, though I did install it on a spare PC for a guest who relies on his saved google setting (bookmarks, etc).

However having gone to https://github.com/ungoogled-software/u … d-chromium I tried to follow the download instructions here:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/u … ium-debian (since there isn't a devuan repository) and get stuck at the apt update stage:

marjorie@grendel:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Bullseye  InRelease [1,565 B]               
Err:2 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Bullseye  InRelease                                
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 02456C79B2FD48BF home:ungoogled_chromium OBS Project <home:ungoogled_chromium@build.opensuse.org>
Hit:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera InRelease                                                 
Hit:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates InRelease                                         
Hit:5 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security InRelease
Hit:6 https://debian.rickslab.com/gpu-utils eddore InRelease
Hit:7 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Bullseye  InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 02456C79B2FD48BF home:ungoogled_chromium OBS Project <home:ungoogled_chromium@build.opensuse.org>
E: The repository 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Bullseye  InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Last edited by Marjorie (2022-08-06 11:00:08)

alexkemp

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Registered: 2018-05-14

Posts: 357  

Re: Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave

In the Git README.md the curl line is secure (https) whereas in your apt command it is not (http); is that the reason for the error?

# curl -s 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Bullseye/Release.key' …

Marjorie

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From: Teignmouth, UK

Registered: 2019-06-09

Posts: 221  

Re: Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave

Hi Alex,

no I don't think it's that:
the curl command on the website (that I copied and pasted and executed, sorry should have also listed in my message) uses https://...
For some reason the error message refer to http://..
Changing the curl command to use http://.. results in the same error message when I run sudo apt update.

aluma

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Registered: 2022-10-26

Posts: 646  

Re: Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave

I'll bring up the topic.
Brave browser installs and works without problems on Chimaera and Daedalus.
Instructions here https://brave.com/linux/

aluma

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Registered: 2022-10-26

Posts: 646  

Re: Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave

Impressions from using Brave.
1. During installation, a repository is added and then installed, uninstalled, and updated like a regular deb package, without unnecessary procedures.
2. Brave Rewards, these same tokens, can be disabled, as well as third-party cookies can be blocked.
3. It works without problems and is quite fast.

zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

Posts: 967  

Re: Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave

Iceweasel-uxp, for me, no dbus required!  But you do need patches to build it currently, which I have. But that takes a few hours.

As for the alternative, go palemoon or basilisk-browser.

The forum has instructions on how to deal with the discourse problem too and SOME other problematic blockade websites.

All the other websites are bloat, ugly and/or insecure in design.  Why else would google not block them but in fact try to get in the way of uxp with their stupid useragent sniffers?

Answer = google is a pile of a dodo but also they can exploit the newer ones much easier.

Last edited by zapper (2023-11-28 19:52:05)

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