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I've never heard of this fork before and Im not sure why its on the front page of HN.
by wnevets 9y ago
I've never heard of this fork before and Im not sure why its on the front page of HN.
- 4bpp 9y agoMy impression has been that it has commanded somewhat outsize (to its actual utility/userbase) attention ever since its conception, because the promise of an "optimised, bloat-free, classic" version of Firefox clearly is attractive to many outspoken technologists. It gets mentioned on HN periodically: https://www.google.com/search?q=pale+moon+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=pale+moon+site%3Anews.ycombi...
- akerro 9y agoBiggest fork of Firefox, apparently not anymore community driven, they tried to "unfuck" Firefox by removing enabled built-in google trackers, business decisions made by Mozilla that community didn't like because they were financially or ideologically driven (like Pocket or Telemetry?).
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- jccalhoun 9y agoI don't use Pale Moon but it has been around for a while. It got a boost when Firefox switched to the Australis interface and people who didn't like it switched to Pale Moon. And it has been getting another boost because of Firefox getting rid of the old extension model.