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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 01:20:40AM -0400, james wrote |
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> So I want a newer verision of Palemoon, but do not find any sort of |
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> discussion on why we (gentoo) are back at 28.3.0? Is there an overlay |
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> with more recent palemoon releases for gentoo, that I'm missing? |
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I don't use the overlay. I prefer to build manually. This goes to |
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way back when to Mozilla 0.91 (showing my age here). If you're not used |
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to doing big builds manually, I recommend downloading the official |
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tarballed executable from palemoon.org. The Mozilla build system, which |
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Pale Moon has inherited, is *NOT* the simple... |
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./configure --with various parameters |
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make |
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make install |
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> Any info you can provide, or anyone else, would be keenly appreciated, |
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> including a 'homebrew' updated version/settings/hacks of palemoon on |
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> gentoo.... |
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You can down load the latest official bzipped Pale Moon tarball from |
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http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/ Make sure that you match |
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32 or 64 bit to your system. You can install anywhere you have write |
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permissions. That includes /usr/local or /opt as root. Or even in your |
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own home directory, which means no root/sudo permissions required. But |
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only the local user will be able to use it. |
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E.g. for the 32-bit version... |
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mkdir $HOME/pm |
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cd $HOME/pm |
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( download the bzipped 28.7.1 tarball to this directory ) |
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tar xf palemoon-28.7.1.linux-i686.tar.bz2 |
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You will now have directory $HOME/pm/palemoon/ and you can point |
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whatever program launcher you use at "$HOME/pm/palemoon/palemoon". You |
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can also pass parameters, e.g. profilename. It is self-contained in the |
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"palemoon" directory, and does *NOT* splatter libraries all over the |
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place. This makes manual uninstall+upgrade easy. When 28.7.2 comes |
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along sometime in the future... |
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cd $HOME/pm |
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( download the bzipped 28.7.2 tarball to this directory ) |
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killall palemoon |
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rm -rf palemoon |
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tar xf palemoon-28.7.2.linux-i686.tar.bz2 |
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I currently use only one addon, ANM (Advanced Night Mode) from |
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https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/advanced-night-mode/ It makes surfing |
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a lot easier on my old eyes. I also have multiple profiles open at the |
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same time. The secret is the "-new-instance" option... e.g. something |
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like so in your program launcher... |
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palemoon -new-instance -p bitchute |
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palemoon -new-instance -p blogspot |
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palemoon -new-instance -p dslr |
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palemoon -new-instance -p google |
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palemoon -new-instance -p palemoon |
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palemoon -new-instance -p slashdot |
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palemoon -new-instance -p test |
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palemoon -new-instance -p youtube |
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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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