On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:17:43 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"Mike Tomlinson" wrote

| Currently trying Pale Moon which is based on the same Mozilla code as
| Firefox with a lot of the bloat and crap chopped out, and this is
| looking good so far. Imported my bookmarks from Firefox, installed
| uBlock Origin, and off it went. Low memory footprint, very fast and
| works with everything I've tried so far. I usually have 40-60 tabs open
| at any one time. I'd be interested to hear what others think.
|

I use PM for most things, with script, frames,
coookies, etc disabled. When I need to enable script
I use FF with NoScript and allow session cookies
and referrer. They're basically the same thing, so
all the extensions are the same. I mainly use XP
so I have PM 24. I'm also using FF 36. I don't know
why people think they have to enable that crazy
FF updating schedule. If sites complain I just change
the userAgent. (I think it currently says FF 45.)

I like that I can have two copies of basically the
same browser and switch back and forth. I downloaded
SeaMonkey recently but don't know if there's any
reason to learn that one. I used K-Meleon for a long
time, as a lightweight, more user-friendly branch of
FF. But then KM got abandoned. It recently got
started up again and I installed it, but haven't got
around to trying it out. Unlike PM, it's more customized
away from FF, so it's not an instant transition.

I find both PM and FF work very well, but I've never
enabled auto-updating and I'm familiar with about:config.
Most of the people in the FF group complaining usually start
out with, "I installed the brand new version and now..."

I'd never install the brand new version of *anything*,
including Windows service packs, unless I desperately
need a new feature. There are often rough edges. With
FF, in particular, I don't worry so much about bugs as
broken functionality. I'm tired of needing to get more
extensions for every FF update that removes something
useful. I currently have extensions for privacy, to
replace the status bar, to replace javascript settings,
to fix broken UI details, to restore View Source, and to
get rid of tabs.

One PM glitch: I just built a new Win7-64 box and
installed the latest PM, along with FF. For some reason
PM won't load a webpage. Very odd. But I'm guessing
it's probably some obvious glitch that I've overlooked.
I just haven't got around to figuring it out.


I've been using FireFox for a while, but I've had Pale Moon on my list
of software I wanted to try. Mike Tomlinson's message reminded me
about it, and having some free time today, I installed it and spent
some time configuring it.

So far I like it a lot. I have only two related gripes:

1. the FireFox add-on "Open Bookmarks in New Tab" doesn't work with
it. As far as I'm concerned, that should be a default in all browsers,
but it isn't.

2. When I type a URL, it too opens over the current tab. I would also
like that to open in a new tab, which I also think should be the
default.

I've looked for another setting or add-on that does these, but I
haven't found anything. Do you or Mike, or anyone else here, know of a
way to do these?

Yes, I know I can click the + before entering a URL or clicking a
bookmark, but I'd much rather not have to remember to do that.