[NCLUG] [OT?] Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

[Bob Proulx]

Chad Perrin wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > cat > ~/.gtkrc-2.0 <<EOF
> > gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
> > EOF
> > 
> > And then the key style is back to the traditional MIT X model.
> 
> Err . . . does this work in the browser?

Yes.  For both Chromium and Firefox.

For a while it was broken and I had to move directories around in
/usr/share/themes/ so that Default was really Emacs.  (e.g. 'mv -b
/usr/share/themes/Emacs /usr/share/themes/Default') But then even that
failed for a while because they hard coded the hard coded key bindings.
That was when Firemacs was very useful to my sanity.  But more
recently that was fixed and now that the configuration control is
working again you can simply configure it.

> > > Are you sure that Ctrl Z (undo) won't work for that on MS Windows?
> > 
> > You are right.  It does work.  I learned something useful today.  I
> > wonder if it didn't work in the past when I first ran into it.  (That
> > is my story and I am sticking with it.)
> 
> I'll take that as an explanation, I guess -- since I would find it
> difficult to travel back in time to test it.

Exactly. :-)

> > Of course Firefox isn't in the bare base installation but it provides
> > too good of an example to pass up.  Look at Firefox 3.0 which
> > introduced a full SQL relational database into their location bar.
> > Wow.  Of course there are others that love that feature.  Fortunately
> > they did choose a good implementation.  But still...
> 
> Doesn't the Awful Bar use SQLite?  That's what I seem to recall.  If it's
> using something more substantial to that, I may have to go stick my head
> in the over.

Yes.  The Firefox location bar uses SQLite.  Which is why I said at
least it was a good implementation.  I like SQLite.  It's worthy.  But
does Firefox really need a full SQL relational database engine even if
it is a good implementation such as SQLite?

> I really *loved* the browser when it was called Phoenix.  I still liked
> it as Firebird.  As Firefox, I gradually started to hate it.

I still miss Galeon.  The web and only the web.  Sigh.

Bob