How to install the Palemoon browser on a Chromebook


Today we are looking at how to install the Palemoon browser on a Chromebook.

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Please use the video as a visual guide, and the commands and links below to install it on your Chromebook.

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1) 00:05 (time stamp in the video)
We start the process by enabling the Linux Container on our Chromebook.  You can al
ways remove it again in the future as well if needed.

To enable it, we go to the settings of our Chromebook, inside of it, we click on the "Advance" option in the left panel, and then the "Developers" section. Then enable Linux from there as seen in the video.

2) 00:36
Now we continue to the next phase in the tutorial and that is to run several commands in our Linux terminal, which will install the browser.

Some general facts about the terminal.  To paste a command into the Linux terminal, press "Ctrl Shift v" together.  After you paste a command into the Linux terminal, please press "enter" to run it.  At some commands you will see a question to press Y or n to continue.  If you see it press "enter" to continue.

2.1) This command will add the Palemoon Browser repository to our system.

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/Debian_10/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list

2.2) 01:05 This command will download a security key which the Palemoon browser requires to be installed.

curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/Debian_10/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_stevenpusser.gpg > /dev/null

2.3) 01:15 This command will update the repositories of our Linux container.

sudo apt update

2.4) 01:33 This command will install the Palemoon browser.  The Y and n question will appear in this command, please press "enter" then.

sudo apt install palemoon

2.5) 01:52 Now we will launch the browser from the terminal to make sure that it works.

palemoon --disable-framerate-limit

3) 02:14
You will now find a Palemoon launcher in your menu.  Let's go there now.

Enjoy!

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