Firefox and possible replacement(s) - was - Re: An operating system with all the usual tools, but without news and ads

[Bret Busby]

On 9/6/22 3:38 pm, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 08:10:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 05:16:40 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On 8/6/22 8:37 pm, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>>> Ralf - have you tried Palemoon -
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Moon
>>> https://www.palemoon.org/
>>
>> Installed 2015-05-30, last upgrade 2022-05-13.
>                         
> upgraded today 09:31:00 from 1:31.0.0 to 1:31.1.0
> 
>> [...]
>> https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28044
> 
> For me there were always reasons to migrate away from Firefox and to
> come back to Firefox. On the long run I never had good luck with a fork.
> 


After posting my previous message regarding Pale Moon, I installed it 
(same version as you have named as your upgraded version), to 
investigate it.

So far, it seems way superior to Firefox, especially, as Pale Moon, like 
Seamonkey and Thunderbird, has a real, practical, and, especially, 
usable, vertical scroll bar, unlike the increasingly contemptuous and 
user hostile Firefox, which, like the gnome3 abortion, developed the 
policy "Screw the users - lets make their use of the software, 
increasingly difficult and unfriendly".

Also, interestingly, Pale Moon has the plugin/extension
"
  CPU & Memory Usage Statusbar

By: riiis
About this add-on
View Pale Moon memory usage and CPU usage in the statusbar.
Forked from the "StatusbarEx" extension for Firefox.
"

of which, whilst it is said to have been forked from a Firefox 
extension, I have not previously been aware of such a tool for an 
application.

So, unless and until it goes wrong, I intend to be using Pale Moon as a 
preferred web browser, relative to Firefox.

Pale Moon looks good to me.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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