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Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by lmichelbacher »

eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

Windows doesn't have good terminal emulator. This extension is almost like having gnome-terminal on Windows. SSH into a remote machine and you have the usual keyboard navigation that the Windows "terminal" doesn't offer.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by no-espam »

eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

Windows! I spend most of my time coding in PuTTy + Vim when I'm on windows. In my limited testing this works as I expect with xterm-256, tmux, and Vim on my Ubuntu 12.04 Server without having to configure anything. PuTTy is a pain to configure on a new box.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by ecspike »

rjv wrote: post #32
eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

Do Chromebooks ship with a terminal application? If not, that would be a good use case.

Chromebooks have a limited term app that allows you to ssh, top, ping, and one or two other commands.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by trotsky »

rginda wrote: post #35
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #22

I thought NaCl couldn't open raw (tcp) sockets? I thought it was limited to WebSockets.

This app is part of a small whitelist of apps that can make this type of connection. It's a temporary solution though. The Chrome team is working on ways to make the functionality more widely available.

Just got through scouring the pepper 19 docs for any mention for how this was done. Exciting to see this kind of functionality enabled, but apprehensive about chrome apps developing into an android style permission nightmare. Perhaps if the user always had the ability to arbitrarily revoke permissions and block them by default.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by evilduck »

bjg wrote: post #38
eridius wrote: post #23

Can someone please explain to me why I would possibly want to run a terminal emulator inside of my web browser, instead of just using the terminal emulator app that my system ships with?

I'm guessing if you have a chrome book it would be a nice solution.

Chromebooks already have SSH installed natively.

Re: Secure Shell chrome (killer) app

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Post by sequoia »

I opened chrome to check this out, but it wants me to "sign in" to install the extension. For me this is a bridge too far: I don't care to tell google about every single extension/application (extensplication?) I'm using.

Like many people, I'm trying to step back from google/facebook snooping, and this would be a solid step toward such big brothering. I suppose next they'll see what email providers I use and whom I correspond with with mutt or whom I chat with on other services with finch etc.. Why expand google's data-gathering "attack surface"? And all this for... (?) what does this offer that sets it above my current terminal client?

Someone please tell me if there is any technical reason I should need to sign in to add an extension (in particular this, or some game).

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