Eagle-eyed readers of this blog will remember my frustrations with the chromebook, how back in Boston I spent several days setting up my cute little laptop which I then broke unceremoniously while trying to install a trackpad driver in Philly. The laptop wasn't broken but the linux installation was, and the Chrome installation had very little space so I was using the computer on 'borrowed time' so to speak. So finally earlier today I formatted the computer (after resetting and setting it up for like six times and that's no exaggeration) and then it was still not working except this one time it worked and I was super happy. Then I set up linux inside the Chromebook which didn't take very long. Finally I got about to setting firefox inside the linux partition held inside the chrome system, to be able to avoid the chrome browser, and that too is working now. So now I'm where I wanted to be at a bazillion years ago, and I can use my favourite browser with my favourite portable computer with no bother. Hurray.
This also means that on this computer I can be using the android version and the desktop version of firefox at the same time, which feels a little cute to me.
Now if only there were a way to remove chrome browser permanently from the computer, I'd be a happy ducky.
Still, it's a big step towards my ultimate goal.
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