Mercury & Thorium

thorium web browser

There are new applications available for Sparkers: Mercury & Thorium What is Thorium? Chromium fork for linux named after radioactive element No. 90. Goals: – Always built with the latest stable version of Chromium. – Intended to behave like and have the featureset of Google Chrome, with differences/patches/enhancements listed below. – Includes Widevine, All Codecs, … Read more

Firefox Mozilla build

There are two new applications available for Sparkers: Firefox Mozilla builds What is Firefox Mozilla build? It is debianized, the latest version of Mozilla Firefox build, which provides the latest binary packages don’t available via Debian stable and testing repos. So the latest versions of Firefox and Firefox ESR can be installed on Sparky stable … Read more

LibreWolf

librewolf

There is a new application available for Sparkers: LibreWolf What is LibreWolf? LibreWolf is the community-maintained fork of Librefox: a privacy and security-focused browser. This project is an independent “fork” of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox. LibreWolf is designed to minimize … Read more

Browsh

browsh

There is a new application available for Sparkers: Browsh What is Browsh? Browsh is a fully interactive, real-time, and modern text-based browser rendered to TTYs and browsers… …Browsh is different in that it’s backed by a real browser, namely headless Firefox, to create a purely text-based version of web pages and web apps. These can … Read more

Firefox issue

  I just moved the latest Firefox 48.0-2 to Sparky repos. Unfortunately it makes an issue with opening some web pages, such as: Facebook, Google+, etc. The error message is: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY and is reported already: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833719 To fix the problem, upgrade the ‘libnss3’ package to version 3.26-1 from ‘Sid’ repos.