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