QupZilla renamed Falkon and ...

[oldgeek]

Always happy to be a service to someone who has helped me.

[vinnywright]

oldgeek; Thank You for pointing me at the location of places.sqlite. I found my copy too:

/home/twp/.mozilla/firefox/mwad0hks.default/places.sqlite

I wish the QupZilla/Falkon devs would move a little closer to Firefox's path usage... But it works.

strange ,,,all I had to do was open bookmars >oganize bookmarks>import,export>import>firfox and point it to /home/vinny/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/places.sqlite ,,,,,,,replace the xxxxx's with the unique identifier. and it saved it as "firefox import" ,,,,I then started reorganizing it as I saw fit dragging from that folder to the places I wanted them

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

I don't know why but when I first opened QupZilla it already had my Vivaldi bookmarks


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[GreyGeek]

QUidsup reviews the newly released Falkon. The results are not pretty.

[oldgeek]

My Falkon browser wouldn't start today. Plus, since installing Snap I have all these loop device messages in my devices list in Dolphin. And I can't find it anywhere to uninstall it. So I uninstalled snap, I think, and hope I don't get any more trouble. As for Falkon, where did it go? I had version 2.1.99, but the closest I can find is QuipZilla 1.8.9, which I supposedly uninstalled after installing Falkon. For now, I'll stick with Firefox.

[GreyGeek]

After you uninstalled snap did all the lop device listings in Dolphin disappear?

[Bings]

I had that with Snap, installed a couple of things via snap, later uninstalled them but was left with a load of "loop devices" containing items relating to the uninstalled programs. Tried deleting them in the snap folder but they kept being remade. Uninstalled snapd and they were gone. A lot of crap spread across the system for 2 programs, must be horrible if you use it regularly.

[oldgeek]

The loop device listings are still in Dolphin (5 of them). Still don't know where Falkon is, but even though the icon is there, the program doesn't load, so I guess it's gone. What is a loop device, by the way? And why does Snapd bring it up?

Note: I've just manually unmounted all five of the listings. Will that do anything to my setup?

[Worzel]

https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/Falkon

It would seem that David Faure, ex Konqueror maintainer is, to some degree, involved in bringing Qupzilla into the KDE group as Falkon.
I therefore hope that his involvement would ensure that it became as good a browser as Konq was in it's day.

I have stuck with Qupzilla 1.8.9 and look forward to it becoming Falkon but without the problems that the appimage seems to generate.

[chimak111]

... the problems that the appimage seems to generate.

What are those? I haven't noticed any.

[Worzel]

Neither have I using Qup 1.8.9 but prior entries in this thread using the appimage, which I believe is Qup 2.1.2, seem to refer to problems.

Perhaps I have mis-read or mis-understood.

[vinnywright]

The loop device listings are still in Dolphin (5 of them). Still don't know where Falkon is, but even though the icon is there, the program doesn't load, so I guess it's gone. What is a loop device, by the way? And why does Snapd bring it up?

Note: I've just manually unmounted all five of the listings. Will that do anything to my setup?

look @hear https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post404559

read post's # 17 , 18 , 19 and 20

VINNY

[oldgeek]

Pardon my ignorance, but I still don't know really what a Snap is. I still have the five loop devices in Dolphin, and I really don't understand the purpose of a loop device. These are some of the holes in my current level of Linux knowledge. I?ve re-installed QupZilla but the 1.8.9 version, just to see how it is. Presumably it isn't a snapped version.

[vinnywright]

Pardon my ignorance, but I still don't know really what a Snap is. I still have the five loop devices in Dolphin, and I really don't understand the purpose of a loop device. These are some of the holes in my current level of Linux knowledge. I?ve re-installed QupZilla but the 1.8.9 version, just to see how it is. Presumably it isn't a snapped version.

what is the output of

snap list

did you uninstall "snapd" ,,,,,,,,,?

a "snap" is an application packaged for the "snap"system .

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt show snapd
Package: snapd
Version: 2.27.5
Built-Using: apparmor (= 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6), golang-1.6 (= 1.6.2-0ubuntu5~16.04.3), golang-defaults (= 2:1.6-1ubuntu4), libcap2 (= 1:2.24-12), libseccomp (= 2.2.3-3ubuntu3)
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 66.4 MB
Depends: adduser, apparmor (>= 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.2), ca-certificates, gnupg1 | gnupg, openssh-client, squashfs-tools, systemd, init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), libc6 (>= 2.17), libudev1 (>= 183)
Conflicts: snap (<< 2013-11-29-1ubuntu1)
Breaks: snap-confine (<< 2.23), ubuntu-core-launcher (<< 2.22), ubuntu-snappy (<< 1.9), ubuntu-snappy-cli (<< 1.9)
Replaces: snap-confine (<< 2.23), ubuntu-core-launcher (<< 2.22), ubuntu-snappy (<< 1.9), ubuntu-snappy-cli (<< 1.9)
Homepage: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd
Task: ubuntu-core, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, cloud-image, server, kubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-core, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-desktop, lubuntu-core, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop
Supported: 5y
Download-Size: 10.7 MB
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
Description: Tool to interact with Ubuntu Core Snappy.
Install, configure, refresh and remove snap packages. Snaps are
'universal' packages that work across many different Linux systems,
enabling secure distribution of the latest apps and utilities for
cloud, servers, desktops and the internet of things.
.
This is the CLI for snapd, a background service that takes care of
snaps on the system. Start with 'snap list' to see installed snaps.

N: There is 1 additional record. Please use the '-a' switch to see it

and it adds a directory in root /snap that contains a hole linux filesystem ,,,that it mounts on a loop device to run the snap package.

VINNY

[oldgeek]

I have no snaps listed, so I did uninstall snapd. From other comments, snaps seem to be a problem at this point, so it's just as well that I don't have any.