BHbheadmaster·Mar 12, 2024
Whenever I see Pale Moon mentioned, I feel obligated to point out this GitHub issue:
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
Make of it what you will.
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18 sourcesIt's really unfortunate that the Pale Moon team are also totally unlikable, which is probably among the reasons why usage has dropped off since it was in vogue in the early-mid 2010s. This[0] issue in a WIP repo for OpenBSD always reminds me of the line in The Big Lebowski "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole". It's fascinatingly hostile for little cause and a non-trivial amount of reputational damage. All in the name the vitally important cause of er... making sure there's not an implementation of Pale Moon that doesn't fully fit their license in a WIP repo.
I suspect that they don't attract the best contributors, given how hard they seem to be to work with.
[0]: https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
In Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from JapanAn OpenBSD developer was preparing a port of Pale Moon, and the PaleMoon devs were absolutely massive pricks about it, immediately became aggressive and started talking about lawyers, at which point all bridges were burnt and all work on Pale Moon for OpenBSD was dropped.
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
In LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedomAm I the only one that feels a lot of parallels between Rust's trademark policy and Mozilla's trademark policies in general? IIRC the Mozilla Public License is very restrictive on usage of logos, branding, etc. to the point where patching software to run on your OS would violate it[1].
So I am not too surprised by what Rust has been doing. I definitely don't like it, but whatever, there's enough fights out there to choose from, and Rust's trademark policy is not one I'm picking.
[1] https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
In Rust Is Dead to MeIts a garbage product run by heinously rude people
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
If you run it you are choosing poorly
In Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yetHN, please read: https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
before you consider to use Pale Moon.
In Pale Moon 29.0I looked at palemoon a while ago, but stuff like https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86, the data breach inserting malware and looking at their chat logs for adding web components (can't find it now) I can't see any reason to use it over firefox. What is the reason you prefer palemoon over firefox?
In Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers for You and Your ComputerThey're generally pretty unprofessional.
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
In Please consider not adopting Google WebComponentsPale Moon Official Branding Violation
2 points · Open discussionPale moon is a bad product made by horrendous individuals.
For the technical reasons read
https://www.howtogeek.com/335712/update-why-you-shouldnt-use...
For the interpersonal reasons please see the lead developer acting like a spoiled child here.
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
Friends don't let friends use a crappy, out of date, insecure, janky browser.
In uBlock Origin 1.20Funniest thing I've ever seen on github.
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
In Pale Moon Browser Continues Support and Development of XULYeah, but rather than "resistance from BSD community" I would call it "Pale Moon developers being huge d* * *s"
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
In Pale Moon Browser Continues Support and Development of XULThe palemoon author threatened to sue OpenBSD 3 hours after a trademark violation request was submitted. https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
In Pale Moon Browser Continues Support and Development of XUL" This browser is created and maintained by the team behind Pale Moon..."
These guys https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
How about not.
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