What's your opinion on PaleMoon compared to Firefox?
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What's your opinion on PaleMoon compared to Firefox?
On their website they claim "Pale Moon offers browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own source with carefully selected features and optimizations to maximize the browser's speed, stability and user experience, while maintaining compatibility with thousands of Firefox extensions many have come to love and rely on". Has anyone tried it thoroughly?
just had a quick look at their website (no I won't link to it).
I think it is extremely suspicious. The web page claims that it is based on the Firefox source and that it is Freeware. Firefox is released under the MPL and therefore AFAIU is incompatible with being Freeware. This could be direct licence violation or a mistake - either way it raises serious red flags for me.
The other thing that leaves a bad taste is the suggested $2 minimum donation to cover "fees". I'll be keeping well away from this.
Meh, I use a older one on my Slack0 5.7 install I am posting with now.
Before. They had a Linux builder for the Linux version. But. The builder moved on. For now at least. No Linux member is maintaining it.
It works just fine on my Puppy install. Pulls in less ram and cpu than Firefox 30 does on my Slack0 5.7 install.
I was told to stay away from Harley Davidsons and Topless Bars. I did not listen then either.
Bet you'd listen if the harley stole your credit card information, kept track of your browsing history, collected usernames and passwords, allowed malicious websites to execute arbitrary code on your computer....
Bet you'd listen if the harley stole your credit card information, kept track of your browsing history, collected usernames and passwords, allowed malicious websites to execute arbitrary code on your computer....
Errrr, OK. Installing Pale Moon did all of that? Must be the best kept secret on the net then. Errrr, Whats a credit card?
Don't ya know they don't give outlaw bikers those things?
As for the binaries, they carry the same restrictions as Firefox, i.e. they may only be redistributed if branding is removed (hence the IceCat/Weasel/etc. spinoffs). http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2660
I'll keep monitoring the Australis situation. I'm still using 24.x ESR and will continue to do so until the new ESR comes out. I'll try that and then decide what to do. There is an extension that might fix it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...themerestorer/
Haven't tried it yet, but will do so then.
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, but Ubuntu also suggests a $2.00 donation when you click to download.
