Basilisk 2023.10.03 Released!
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Basilisk 2023.10.03 Released!
Basilisk 2023.10.03 has been released!
This release uses the same UXP platform version as Pale Moon 32.4.1
The autoupdate service does not currently support FreeBSD, aarch64 Linux, and macOS builds so a manual update is required on these operating systems.
See the release notes for more information.
See the downloads page to download the update.
This release uses the same UXP platform version as Pale Moon 32.4.1
The autoupdate service does not currently support FreeBSD, aarch64 Linux, and macOS builds so a manual update is required on these operating systems.
See the release notes for more information.
See the downloads page to download the update.
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Re: Basilisk 2023.10.03 Released!
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Re: Basilisk 2023.10.03 Released!
Thanks for that.
I am working on integrating it properly into my Slackware based x86-64 system using basilisk-20231003151819.linux-x86_64-gtk2.tar.xz
I will move the basilisk folder to /opt/basilisk
I will create a symlink /usr/bin/basilisk pointing to /opt/basilisk/basilisk
For the icons, I will create symlinks from e.g. /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/basilisk.png to /opt/basilisk/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
What I have not found is a source file for this:
/usr/share/applications/basilisk.desktop
Searching with DDG for "basilisk.desktop" (with the quotes) gave me only two hits:
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Basilisk-Browser/
which has a minimal basilisk.desktop
and
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ ... silisk-bin
which has a quite elaborate one including many languages I am not interested in.
Does an official basilisk.desktop exist?
for now I created these:
basilisk.desktop
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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Basilisk Web Browser
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=basilisk %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=palemoon
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;Internet;GTK;
MimeType=text/html;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;
StartupNotify=true
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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Basilisk Web Browser
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=basilisk %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=palemoon
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;Internet;GTK;
StartupNotify=true
NoDisplay=true
yours truly, Rava
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Re: Basilisk 2023.10.03 Released!
The short answer is no, there is no official .desktop file for Basilisk. I just hit Alt+F2 and then type in basilisk when I want to run Basilisk on my Slackware desktop. I use WMaker.
Since you are using Slackware, it might be helpful for you to know that there is a Slackbuild for Basilisk. However, the Slackbuild is an old version. You will need to edit the Slackbuild yourself to pull the newest version.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/ ... h=basilisk
Here is the .desktop file from that Slackbuild
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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Basilisk Web Browser
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=basilisk-bin %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=basilisk-bin
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;
StartupNotify=true
Name[en_US]=Basilisk Web Browser
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Re: Basilisk 2023.10.03 Released!
Thanks for that.
Another question: I want to replace dict-en.US with 2 other dictionaries.
How do I do so? Removing dictionaries/en-US.aff and dictionaries/en-US.dic is easy.
But do I just insert the e.g. en-GB@dictionaries.thereisonlyxul.org/ folder into dictionaries/ ?
I presume I have to edit some setup file as well?
I want the dictionaries to be in the /opt/basilisk folder and not in the user home setup folder so that all users can use the same dictionaries and I don't have these files in each user's home folder.
Also, can some extra add-ons also inserted via /opt/basilisk and not via the user home setup folder?
yours truly, Rava
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Re: Basilisk 2023.10.03 Released!
To be honest I have no idea, this isn't something I've ever tried. Try it out and let me know if it works!
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Re: Basilisk 2023.10.03 Released!
I tried adding the addons into folder /opt/basilisk/browser/extensions/ and /opt/basilisk/dictionaries/ but that did not work as I hoped it would. I presume some setup files need to be adjusted, and I do not know which ones and how to adjust these.Basilisk-Dev wrote: ↑2023-10-30, 01:11To be honest I have no idea, this isn't something I've ever tried. Try it out and let me know if it works!
For now as a workaround I did the following:
I presumed for that to work since palemoon and basilisk are close enough - code-wise and since PM is my main browser:
I set up symlinks in my ~/.basilisk-dev/basilisk/RANDOM.default/extensions that link my extensions (de-DE-1901@dictionaries.thereisonlyxul.org - eMatrix@vannilla.org.xpi - en-GB@dictionaries.thereisonlyxul.org - uBlock0@raymondhill.net.xpi and url-rewriter@papush) to their respective files or folders in my ~/moonchild\ productions/pale\ moon/RANDOM.default/extensions/
That is: all extra extensions but the swarth@franklindm.xpi since I use that in Basilisk instead of "Advanced Night Mode" that I use in PM.
While using the folders and files of the extensions like so works like a charm (first I installed them manually in Basilisk and let Basilisk do the setup; then I exited Basilisk (did a backup of my ~/.basilisk-dev/) and replaced the folders and files of the extensions with the above mentioned symlinks and started Basilisk anew) I sure did not use the same symlinking when it comes to the databases 2 of these extensions use:
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ematrix.sqlite
ublock0.sqlite
And as additional precaution, I recommend anyone following my above approach to disable automated updating of the extensions in one of these browsers (recommended disabling that in the least used browser while keeping it on auto-updating it in the more often used browser)
yours truly, Rava