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From: james <garftd@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:08:09
Message-Id: 31e5479a-59a2-0a7e-be07-8d04806d4fff@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68 by Walter Dnes
1 On 9/17/19 2:23 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 01:20:40AM -0400, james wrote
3 >
4 >> So I want a newer verision of Palemoon, but do not find any sort of
5 >> discussion on why we (gentoo) are back at 28.3.0? Is there an overlay
6 >> with more recent palemoon releases for gentoo, that I'm missing?
7 >
8 > I don't use the overlay. I prefer to build manually. This goes to
9 > way back when to Mozilla 0.91 (showing my age here). If you're not used
10 > to doing big builds manually, I recommend downloading the official
11 > tarballed executable from palemoon.org. The Mozilla build system, which
12 > Pale Moon has inherited, is *NOT* the simple...
13 >
14 > ./configure --with various parameters
15 > make
16 > make install
17 >
18 >> Any info you can provide, or anyone else, would be keenly appreciated,
19 >> including a 'homebrew' updated version/settings/hacks of palemoon on
20 >> gentoo....
21 >
22 > You can down load the latest official bzipped Pale Moon tarball from
23 > http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/ Make sure that you match
24 > 32 or 64 bit to your system. You can install anywhere you have write
25 > permissions. That includes /usr/local or /opt as root. Or even in your
26 > own home directory, which means no root/sudo permissions required. But
27 > only the local user will be able to use it.
28 >
29 > E.g. for the 32-bit version...
30 >
31 > mkdir $HOME/pm
32 > cd $HOME/pm
33 > ( download the bzipped 28.7.1 tarball to this directory )
34 > tar xf palemoon-28.7.1.linux-i686.tar.bz2
35 >
36 > You will now have directory $HOME/pm/palemoon/ and you can point
37 > whatever program launcher you use at "$HOME/pm/palemoon/palemoon". You
38 > can also pass parameters, e.g. profilename. It is self-contained in the
39 > "palemoon" directory, and does *NOT* splatter libraries all over the
40 > place. This makes manual uninstall+upgrade easy. When 28.7.2 comes
41 > along sometime in the future...
42 >
43 > cd $HOME/pm
44 > ( download the bzipped 28.7.2 tarball to this directory )
45 > killall palemoon
46 > rm -rf palemoon
47 > tar xf palemoon-28.7.2.linux-i686.tar.bz2
48 >
49 > I currently use only one addon, ANM (Advanced Night Mode) from
50 > https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/advanced-night-mode/ It makes surfing
51 > a lot easier on my old eyes. I also have multiple profiles open at the
52 > same time. The secret is the "-new-instance" option... e.g. something
53 > like so in your program launcher...
54 >
55 > palemoon -new-instance -p bitchute
56 > palemoon -new-instance -p blogspot
57 > palemoon -new-instance -p dslr
58 > palemoon -new-instance -p google
59 > palemoon -new-instance -p palemoon
60 > palemoon -new-instance -p slashdot
61 > palemoon -new-instance -p test
62 > palemoon -new-instance -p youtube
63 >
64
65
66 Thanks Dale and Walter. Building and test on a test machine as we speak.
67
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69 James