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On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 03:08:36AM -0500, Taiidan@×××.com wrote |
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> What makes it better than icecat, iceweasel, foxcat, and so on? |
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I don't use any of them, so I can't do a comparison. BTW, Iceweasel |
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is no more https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel |
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> As of 9th of June, 2016 the package Firefox-ESR replaces Iceweasel, |
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> and is in Wheezy and Jessie security repositories. |
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Pale Moon is an independant fork of Firefox. It was based on Firefox |
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code as a starting point but is going its own way; e.g. no |
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Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H^H Austraulis UI. That was what drove me away from |
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it. I've always customised the menus for maximum usable screen space, |
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plus text (not icons) for the menu. |
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I wasn't initially concerned when that version of Firefox showed up. |
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What shocked me was the fact that Firefox removed the ability to |
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customize the UI to the "classic" look. They must've realized that |
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people would hate Austraulis. Soon, the most-downloaded addons were |
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"classic UI restorer" addons. |
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I switched to Sea Monkey for a while, and eventually to Pale Moon. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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