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There's objective ways of defining "outdated" - one is surely the distro maintainers stance on that (things like "support cycle" or "end of support" or "end of life", which I could not find on their website on a glance), and another very important one is security from malicious software & intrusions from the internet.
Yes man, that's one way of seeing things. But think about a computer that is NOT connected to the Internet (yes, I know, difficult to imagine the time being ;o) If I'm using old software to write letters and translations, and possibly even printing those out, how could possibly any malicious software intervene ? A well working closed system is always safe, and doesn't need the approval of whatever distro maintainer. That's why I mentioned AIDS as an exemple ;o) Nevertheless, I understand your point, especially if the concerned computer is connected to the Internet... That's also the reason why I would dissuade people from keeping their Internet connection always on. But I think we really are now getting out of topic, and this kind of discussion can go on endlessly. Again on topic: I'm very happy with the fact that Palemoon still supports older 32bit machines, meaning Palemoon gets my vote !
Yes man, that's one way of seeing things. But think about a computer that is NOT connected to the Internet (yes, I know, difficult to imagine the time being ;o) If I'm using old software to write letters and translations, and possibly even printing those out, how could possibly any malicious software intervene ? A well working closed system is always safe, and doesn't need the approval of whatever distro maintainer. That's why I mentioned AIDS as an exemple ;o) Nevertheless, I understand your point, especially if the concerned computer is connected to the Internet... That's also the reason why I would dissuade people from keeping their Internet connection always on. But I think we really are now getting out of topic, and this kind of discussion can go on endlessly. Again on topic: I'm very happy with the fact that Palemoon still supports older 32bit machines, meaning Palemoon gets my vote !
Since this whole aside is about running an internet browser on an outdated install, I have difficulty seeing your argument.
Also repeatedly assuming that I am male is - sexist. Please stop that.
That's all from me to you for now (unless you manage to push my buttons in new & unprecedented ways).
Since this whole aside is about running an internet browser on an outdated install, I have difficulty seeing your argument.
Also repeatedly assuming that I am male is - sexist. Please stop that.
That's all from me to you for now (unless you manage to push my buttons in new & unprecedented ways).
Ok ondoho, I get your point. Interesting you don't want me to assume you're male. Nothing changes if you're female, male, or even something in between: it's not relevant and you're most welcome anyway. Nevertheless I'd like to point out that the expression "yes man" is similar to "yes mate". A familiar expression that indistinctly can be used with both women and men. No offence meant, really.
Firefox, despite that I curse them every time I update the browser and they have changed the UI and I have to search all over again to figure out how to put tabs where they should be, below the url bar. When Mozilla rids of userChrome, I will switch to Seamonkey.
Can you make a journal or post a link detailing how to do this? I can't figure it out on modern Firefox.
Can you make a journal or post a link detailing how to do this? I can't figure it out on modern Firefox.
Hi, this will help you: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx
You copy the userChrome directory into your /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/yourprofile and comment out the tweaks you want to activate in userChrome.css, according to your FF version.
First make sure that the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference in about:config is set to true, if you are on version 69+.
I used to vote for Opera (the -developer version), but this year I voted for Vivaldi.
Opera is still my default browser, but Vivaldi keeps surprising me with the speed that Opera used to excel in and still have all the sites functioning without the requirements of a Windows VM to visit sites that are maintained by braindead Microsoft addicts.
So many on the list that I’ve tried that I like! But there are only so many that I need.
Main everywhere: Firefox. Does what I need it to, almost always. When it doesn’t, then one of these as backup on various devices: Brave, Chromium, Iridium, Vivaldi; and rarely Konqueror, SeaMonkey (for a change, because they’re there) or lynx (when I want to go text only)
Chrome only when I have no other option on somebody else’s device or sometimes at work, where it’s the default and only officially approved browser along with Edge and IE (although our IT supports Firefox because enough people including many in IT want FF.)
Would like to use Falkon if KDE Plasma comes to the next Slackware release.
You mean they didn't work with your outdated version of PCLinuxOS?
PCLinuxOS is rolling release, so it will only become outdated if you consistently ignore the "updates available" notice on the panel.
As for the browser, I prefer Pale Moon. PCLinuxOS has it in the repository and it was easy to add the 32-bit version to Xubuntu. It does the job and is easy to use.
Last edited by DavidMcCann; 01-18-2020 at 10:39 AM.
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