On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 05:41:03AM +0000, Martin Vaeth wrote I don't speak officially for Pale Moon. See https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7818 for the official word about the manpower situation. Mind you, the Pale Moon team may not have the staffing level required to write a new compiler, maintain a politically correct "community", integrate real-time-chat into the browser, integrate "Pocket" into the browser, rewrite the GUI every so often, yada, yada, yada. BTW, Firefox's share of the mobile market is 0.53% as per netmarketshare.com
https://netmarketshare.com/?options={%22filter%22%3A{%22%24and%22%3A[{%22deviceType%22%3A{%22%24in%22%3A[%22Mobile%22]}}]}%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22browser%22%2C%22sort%22%3A{%22share%22%3A-1}%2C%22id%22%3A%22browsersDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222017-03%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222018-02%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%2C%22pageLength%22%3A10} So why bother? As far as features are concerned, again go to the official website http://www.palemoon.org/technical.shtml > The decision to stick with legacy extension api completely excludes > that there is some convergence of the fork in the future. As an end-user, I think you're missing the whole point of Pale Moon. If I really wanted a Chrome-like browser, I'd use Chrome in the first place. I, and a lot of other people, switched to Pale Moon precisely because we *DO NOT WANT* what Firefox has become. To quote an old meme... I didn't leave Firefox... Firefox left me. > Also the refusal to implement webextension apis (which is consequent, > since it is hardly possible to maintain 2 more and more diverging > apis) has the side effect that only obsolete versions of the actively > maintained extensions like noscript and ublock-origin can be used. Wrong. Pale Moon has its own XUL extension ecosystem at https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/ Since they're written specifically for Pale Moon, the compatability headaches of using Firefox extensions do not exist. Noscript equivalents... * https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/noscript/ * https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yesscript/ Adblockers... * https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/abprime/ * https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/adblock-latitude/ -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
