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On Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:04:56 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:30:51PM +0000, Michael wrote |
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> > I haven't yet given Palemoon a spin and consequently have no |
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> > experience of it. How does it compare to FF? I am curious as to |
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> > security and performance comparisons. |
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> It's kept updated regularly for security. See |
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> http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml for update info. "CVE-" |
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> mentions are usually for code inherited from Firefox. The reason the |
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> version number is "so low" is that update increments tend to be +0.0.1 |
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> instead of full integer +1 like Firefox/Chrome. Major milestones are |
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> where the integer increments occur. I believe that performance is |
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> roughly the same, but I don't use both, so I don't definitively know. |
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> BTW, Pale Moon is still XUL, versus Firefox Webextensions, so the |
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> respective addons/extensions are incompatible. Pale Moon stuff is listed |
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> at https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/ |
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I use a couple of Addons, I guess I could fish for older XUL based versions |
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and see if they run. |
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> > Would they differ in performance terms on an old AMD powered laptop? |
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> 1st question; how old is the AMD laptop? Pale Moon requires at least |
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> SSE2-capable cpus. |
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I'll be OK on this front. SSE2 is available. |
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> 2nd question; how old is the AMD laptop? As per thread |
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> https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=23031 the official |
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> 32-bit tarball will no longer be generated as of Nov 2020. Note that |
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> this will not prevent you from building it yourself in Gentoo or "the |
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> hard way", or "community versions" or whatever. |
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Thanks, amd64 arch will work nicely. |
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> > What is the recommended way to install in Gentoo? I noticed |
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> > the palemoon overlay has ebuilds for source and binary options. |
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> You can go the overlay route to manage it by Gentoo, but remember to |
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> disable system libs. This will continue to work for 32 and 64-bit. |
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> Or you can pull down the tarball and extract to your home directory |
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> and point your program launcher to ${HOME}/palemoon/palemoon The entire |
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> program is contained in ${HOME}/palemoon so it doesn't splatter stuff |
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> all over. "Uninstalling" consists of "rm -rf ${HOME}/palemoon". You |
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> can set it to auto-update (64-bit only after November) if you install it |
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> in a directory that you have write-access to. |
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This is good to know. Will give it a spin, thanks Walter! |
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