[PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Sun May 5 16:26:36 UTC 2019


Wow. Thunderbird sucks ass.

Sorry for the double post. Lately thunderbird has been duplicating my 
drafts....



On 5/5/19 9:22 AM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> On 5/4/19 6:27 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> On Sat, 4 May 2019 12:57:01 -0700
>> Ben Koenig<techkoenig at gmail.com>  dijo:
>>
>>> Given that I've been moving to Falkon from the ktown repo, I don't
>>> really care all that much.
>> The Falkon website says to install from your distro's repositories,
>> Eager to try something new I tried to install it on Xubuntu 16.04, but
>> it's not in the repos. It also offers a command to install with snap,
>> but I hate snap. I also found an Appimage file, but it won't run - no
>> error messages, just nada. Oh well.
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>
> That's probably because Falkon is the new KDE browser. It's 
> semi-related to chrome/chromium. I haven't figured out how much it 
> depends on the KDE Plasma desktop.
>
>
> That's why I mentioned ktown. For Slackware ktown is a bleeding edge 
> KDE5 repository so you would need to running an equally recent version 
> of ubuntu. 16.04 is too old ;-)
>
>
> BTW, I see a lot of questions on PLUG about package versions of 
> availability. Even though I'm not on Ubuntu, I still get curious and 
> look up versions at their online repo list:
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com
>
>
> You can search by version, e.g. 16.04 or 18.04. This is useful to 
> determine if you need to upgrade, and to which version you should 
> upgrade to.
>
> According to my searches,
>



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