On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 10:28:00AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:42:37 +0200
> Jaromil <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > hi Chillfan,
> > 
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Chillfan wrote:
> > 
> > > I agree that a fork is needed, but I think this would be a whole
> > > lot of work.  
> > 
> > yes. forks are a LOT of work. Even Devuan, which I'd say is a
> > relatively easy fork, mostly needing work on the infrastructure and
> > testing and documentation side, was more demanding than expected.
> > 
> > > If palemoon offered something akin to extended support releases it
> > > would be a great candidate for that,  
> > 
> > palemoon is stuck at "version 27" series of Firefox and in any case
> > its in the 2x series I doubt it can be brought up to 50 since the
> > codebase is rather different.
> > 
> > said that, I'm happy with palemoon, using always the latest stable
> > release tagged on the git tree, compiling it myself on Devuan and then
> > github.com/dyne/tinfoil for sandboxing. here the mozconfig I use,
> > please note I do not disable pulseaudio or dbus, because that gives
> > problems, yet I do not use pulseaudio (but I do use dbus...)
> 
> Here's why I wouldn't use Palemoon if it were the last browser on earth:
> 
> https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
> 
> By the way, a little research on USPTO shows they have no registered
> trademark on "Palemoon". For somebody so lawyerly threatening, he sure
> hasn't dotted his i's and crossed his t's.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt 
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Is there another name that palemoon could be called?

-- hendrik

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