I will not use pale moon because its maintainer is a furry. Furryism denies the struggles of women and focuses attention elsewhere. Coraline Ada Ehmke has written about why bad maintainers are toxic and should be cancelled/removed from projects: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
What exactly is the argument for using the Pale Moon browser? I am genuinely interested since I see it floating around here and there but even when reading the descriptions on the website I have a hard time understanding what really distuingishes it from other browsers in a good way, especially Firefox.
pale moon and other "alt" browsers are mostly pushed by those who want to abuse browsers for bad reasons. for instance, a bunch of bigots now dont want to use firefox because of a blog post denouncing white nationalists and other republicans. it's a dog whistle for bigots trying to evaid crackdowns on their misogyny, racism, transphobia, and heteranormativity.
Thanks for that but that was kind of my point. I don't get the argument for Pale Moon from reading this. "A browser with a large degree of freedom" - what does that mean, especially when one considers that few lines under that it says that the functionality of newer extensons cannot be guaranteed. Also it says that it's faster, but that seems like something all browsers claim. That's why I was a bit confused.
i'm using it because it empirically runs faster with less resources on my machine than other browsers i tried while rendering feature-creep websites at a good degree, plus it supports old XUL-style firefox extensions - i guess the 'freedom' part points to this.
It started as a fork of Firefox when Mozilla decided to restrict UI customization, and make most existing add-ons incompatible. Partly it was also about how these changes were communicated. That was a couple of years ago.
For a while it was a better choice over the redesigned Firefox ("Australis"). I then switched to using Chromium, so not sure what the situation is now but it can't hurt to have more choice.
It is my browser of choice because:
1. I feel in control. No auto updates in the background, no SoftwareReportingTool, no Pocket, no nonsense.
2. It has a certain "feeling" to it's use that I like. hard to explain.
3. It is more stable/predictable than other browsers in how it evolves.
But that one was much more fierce, with the exchange culminating in:
> If you are not capable of understanding the difference, please, in the interest of mailing list pease [sic] and to be kind to our user community, why don't you just FUCK OFF? [1]
By comparison here it's rather mellow:
>> You will revise your mozconfig [...] to remove the following: [...]
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 59.4 ms ] threadThis is the project's technical details, https://www.palemoon.org/technical.shtml
For a while it was a better choice over the redesigned Firefox ("Australis"). I then switched to using Chromium, so not sure what the situation is now but it can't hurt to have more choice.
wget -qO - https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusse... | sudo apt-key add
before you consider to use Pale Moon.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=99867604230539&w=2
But that one was much more fierce, with the exchange culminating in:
> If you are not capable of understanding the difference, please, in the interest of mailing list pease [sic] and to be kind to our user community, why don't you just FUCK OFF? [1]
By comparison here it's rather mellow:
>> You will revise your mozconfig [...] to remove the following: [...]
> I will do no such thing [...]
1. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=99907186120709&w=2