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**Bill in Co** · March 13th 14, 04:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:34:56 -0600, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

FWIW, I downloaded the Pale Moon 24.0.2 installer (exe) file some time
ago,
and it was only 16.6 MB in size - not the ZIP file. It would be
interesting
to see if that works for you. (I think it's generally better to use the
installer file). BTW, I was the one who mentioned PM, and it works well
for
me (although occasionally a fussy site might work better with FF)

I got the .EXE version. It installed fien, but as soon as I clicked on
palemoon.exe, it crashed again. It just will not run. But I think I
found out why. My computer is just too old. It's a PIII. They have a
list of processors on their site and it says that it wont work on my
processor.

For a prgm that says it's a trimmed down variety of FF, I cant
understand why it requires so much power to operate. I have not gone
beyond FF 22, but that installs and runs fine.

Either way, I just cant run it!. But I'm happy with Seamonkey anyhow,
and will look into the newer K-meleon.

BTW: The latest installer is 20.7M. (yet the .zip was 26+m) Weird!

Here is a quote:

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What is Pale Moon

Pale Moon is a web browser based on the security and robustness of the
Firefox browser, started and maintained by a single person (Mr. M.C.
Straver). It eliminates several unnecessary features that slow down the
browser and it is optimized for modern hardware. A few examples:
Accessibility features, Parental controls, Maintenance service and
others. You won't find these features (that most people don't even know
exist) in this web browser. Although there are older versions that can
run on old computers (such as Pentium III), this browser has been
optimized to work well with PCs that are no more than several years old
(approximately up to 10 years old). If you have an old computer and you
don't know if it's going to work with the latest version of Pale Moon
there are two ways to test this. You can download the latest version and
see if the browser will start (if it doesn't, visit the technical
section of the home page and check the "Supported processors" section),
or you can check before downloading if your processor meets the
browser's requirements with a small tool (it needs support for SSE2). If
it doesn't start, your computer is likely too old to run Pale Moon.

OK. You could download an older version (in the archive) which might
possibly work, but if you're happy with FF or SeaMonkey, I agree, why
bother.