Min browser official package vs AUR package

gxt25 · 2017-10-19 06:40:16

Apologies if this has been discussed here previously but I fail to find it. I've been experimenting with making Min (from pacman) my default browser but there were several issues such as a bug in the Save As dialog not accepting text input without first clicking in the filename box, youtube videos not playing, links from Thunderbird failing to open correctly in Min after setting it as default browser... After replacing Min (from pacman) with Min (from AUR), all of these issues vanished and the browser is for me close to flawless. From pacman Min is about 15MB whereas the package from AUR is about 150 MB. Has anyone compared these versions? Is there a deliberate reason such a buggy version of Min is available officially from pacman while a superior version is in AUR only instead of replacing the version from pacman?

jasonwryan · 2017-10-19 06:49:07

gxt25 wrote:

Has anyone compared these versions? Is there a deliberate reason such a buggy version of Min is available officially from pacman while a superior version is in AUR only instead of replacing the version from pacman?

You can compare them; there are PKGBUILDs available for both. I would guess the difference is in the dependencies...

Alad · 2017-10-19 15:00:50

Is there a deliberate reason such a buggy version of Min is available officially from pacman while a superior version is in AUR only instead of replacing the version from pacman?

Is there a deliberate reason you're making vague complaints on the forums instead of filing a bug report?

gxt25 · 2017-10-19 15:23:53

Yes, my reason for posting here before filing bug reports is because the free time I've had so far to look into this is not sufficient to fully research the topic but there appears to be something wrong. I posted here in the hope the larger community might be able to say yes, in fact here is the reason this is the way it is, or not. In the case no one can confirm a reason for the discrepancy between packages I will gladly submit a bug report. Next block of time I get I'll do my best to look through the PKGBUILDs myself and see what I can come up with, although more informed and experienced eyes than mine having a look would certainly not hurt either - not because I'm lazy but because my knowledge on the subject is limited and I may miss important points.

ooo · 2017-10-19 16:22:11

Are you talking about min-browser-bin from AUR? because that's the only one I could find.

In that case the difference is, that min from AUR installs pre-built binary from/by upstream developers. Min from official repos however, is built from source with Arch build system.

Regardless, if a package in official repos is buggy, you should file a report to help the package maintainer fix the issues. Although at least the youtube bug seems to be already reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=5&cat=33&string=min

Last edited by ooo (2017-10-19 16:24:51)

HalosGhost · 2017-10-19 17:23:41

Not to be that user, but I didn't realize anyone used Min at all. It's a browser written in Electron. Which is to say, it's just a slow web-based UI bolted on top of chromium with some addons preinstalled.

Is it unreasonable to suggest a solution to this problem would be to just install chromium?

All the best,

-HG

gxt25 · 2017-10-19 17:25:31

ooo wrote:

Are you talking about min-browser-bin from AUR? because that's the only one I could find.
In that case the difference is, that min from AUR installs pre-built binary from/by upstream developers. Min from official repos however, is built from source with Arch build system.
Regardless, if a package in official repos is buggy, you should file a report to help the package maintainer fix the issues. Although at least the youtube bug seems to be already reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=5&cat=33&string=min

Thank you I'll be following up on this soon.

gxt25 · 2017-10-19 17:27:50

HalosGhost wrote:

Not to be that user, but I didn't realize anyone used Min at all. It's a browser written in Electron. Which is to say, it's just a slow web-based UI bolted on top of chromium with some addons preinstalled.
Is it unreasonable to suggest a solution to this problem would be to just install chromium?
All the best,
-HG

I got nothing on this one except to say I like Min, don't like Chromium. Not very technical or scientific, I know, but hey, I'm still human for now. Thanks for the info though. BTW, with the AUR version of Min, there is no "problem" for me at least. Maybe other users have their own issues with Min, but the ones I had only existed in the version from pacman.

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#1 2017-10-19 06:40:16

Min browser official package vs AUR package

#2 2017-10-19 06:49:07

Re: Min browser official package vs AUR package

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