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/ > 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. 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. > 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. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
