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What even is the purpose of the Pale Moon browser? Their entire website can't give me any concrete reasons why someone would rather use this over Firefox.
by dkuntz2 11y ago
What even is the purpose of the Pale Moon browser? Their entire website can't give me any concrete reasons why someone would rather use this over Firefox.
- reitanqild 11y agoWe hoped they would manage to run a fork of the browser we used to love and advocate for: the free and open and technically superior Firefox with real extensions like scrapbook (userfriendly recursive web page/site scraper), tree style tabs (if you do research on the web and haven't given it a try do it now) etc etc. Others were unhappy about the new Firefox skinning that was backwards incompatible (I think).
- superkuh 11y agoAs a user I can can explain. I was unhappy with Mozilla implementing a walled garden for their extensions. I am not an extension dev but it's a rare month where I don't pop open an xpi and edit something to my personal preferences. In a walled garden I can't do that. They are taking control of the browser away from me. Their choice to implement the W3C's disasterous digital rights managment technology in the form of EME was too much. At the very minimum including this DRM in the browser opens up any devs or researchers trying to port to other platforms/OS to legal liability and attack. Additionally Mozilla's choice to bake in bloatware like Pocket is very unpleasant. Basically every time I do a fresh install of Firefox I have to go through a long series of config to de-bullshit it (ref: https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5 https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5). Palemoon is more Firefox than Firefox these days.