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Hi, I am the official owner of the Basilisk browser and have recently switched to Slackware. Are there any plans on updating the basilisk-bin Slackbuild? I have released multiple versions of Basilisk between the last version of the Slackbuild and the current version.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Hi, I am the official owner of the Basilisk browser and have recently switched to Slackware. Are there any plans on updating the basilisk-bin Slackbuild? I have released multiple versions of Basilisk between the last version of the Slackbuild and the current version.
Good idea, I'll send an email as well. The reason I commented on this thread is because the OP of this thread is the guy who maintains the Slackbuild for basilisk-bin.
Hi, I am the official owner of the Basilisk browser and have recently switched to Slackware. Are there any plans on updating the basilisk-bin Slackbuild? I have released multiple versions of Basilisk between the last version of the Slackbuild and the current version.
Many realise "Times are different now" (as said by Mr. Chipping in the movie "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"). UXP - the Unified XUL Platform (backend for Palemoon) - ended this spring support for GCC 5.5, the compiler included in Slackware 14.2.
Fortunately it is still possible to build up to date Basilisk and Palemoon Browsers on 14.2 if using the UXP engine included in the april 2022 palemoon-29.4.6.source.tar.xz ( to be obtained from http://archive.palemoon.org/source ).
Idea?: download and extract Git master of Palemoon (or Basilisk) and copy the "platform" directory from palemoon-29.4.6 into the Git master (to brand Basilisk also copy the "official" folder from basilisk-2022.01.27-source.tar.xz into the "basilisk/branding" directory).
Then rename the now modified "pale-moon" master directory to "palemoon-2022.11.12.source" and compress to palemoon-2022.11.12.source.tar.gz so the tar.gz file will unpack as a "palemoon-2022.11.12.source" directory.
It is now uncomplicated to make a Palemoon (or Basilisk) Slackbuild using the 2022.11.12 tar.gz source file plus resources available on Slackbuilds.org (autoconf-2.13.tar.xz, patches, .inf and .desktop files, doinst.sh and slack-desc files).
Palemoon is the bigger build of the two. Legacy Ublock origin xpi works (JustOffs github-wc-polyfill-1.2.19 xpi will install if renaming the polyfill xpi to zip, extract and edit values in line 20 in "install.rdf" from maxVersion>29.* to maxVersion>32.*, archive files as zip and rename in reverse from .zip to .xpi - does not work on GitHub but may be of use on other sites?)
An example SlackBuild script is attached (credits to Khronosschotty).
Edit: sorry - if using the script edit in line 266 "basilisk.desktop" to "palemoon.desktop"
Last edited by TheIllusionist; 11-15-2022 at 08:22 AM.
Hi, I am the official owner of the Basilisk browser and have recently switched to Slackware. Are there any plans on updating the basilisk-bin Slackbuild? I have released multiple versions of Basilisk between the last version of the Slackbuild and the current version.
Khronosschotys 15.0 SlackBuild of PaleMoon 31.3.0 will build on 14.2 if (temporarely) upgrading the compiler to GCC 7.3.
The files gcc-7.3.0-x86_64-1.txz, gcc-g++-7.3.0-x86_64-1.txz and gcc-gfortran-7.3.0-x86_64-1.txz are kindly hosted at
and works on 14.2 after install with the "upgradepkg --install-new" command. After building PaleMoon the GCC 7.3 compiler can be uninstalled via "pkgtool" and the original GCC 5.5 compiler reinatalled with "slackpkg install gcc"
A new release from Pale Moon, v32. From the release notes:
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v32.0.0 (2023-01-24)
This is a new milestone release.
Primary focus for this milestone is web compatibility, in particular Regular Expression extensions, standards compliance issues and further JPEG-XL support.
This milestone now offers full coverage of the ECMAScript 2016-2020 JavaScript specifications, with the exception of BigInt primitives...
I'll be downloading and building it later today and will report back, hopefully. ;-)
UPDATE: new Pale Moon version compiled, and seems to be "all systems go" on Slackware 14.2. (Currently, compilation still progressing on Slackware 15...)
UPDATE #2: this morning, I've verified that the new Pale Moon v32 is compiling and running great (w/ CookieMasters and NoScript 5.1.9) on Slackware 15...
If it's important to you, you can always take over maintenance of the build script. After all, SBO content is all done by volunteers and you can become the next one.
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