MImichaelmrose·Dec 17, 2018
" 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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4 sourcesPalemoon is forever stuck with a version of Firefox that is older, less secure, and slower that going forward will be incapable of taking their project forward or even finding and plugging security holes.
Also they assert the right to decide how bsd/linux distributions package their work on pain of lawsuit.
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
Their behavior was tactless and poorly considered. I wouldn't trust them to make me a ham sandwich let alone maintain my browser.
Just install tridactyl which is about feature complete compared to pentadactyl by now.
In Qutebrowser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5In that you are right. Moonchild, Tobin and the other ones may be able to solve browser internal issues, but everything which is reaching a certain size is "patches welcome".
And to make it worse, they are rather rude against Seamonkey developers or Mozilla, or Brave or Vivaldi or against guys who dare to fulfill not 1000% the branding rules of Moonchild when creating an own version of Pale Moon/Basilisk.
While i would defend Pale Moon against Firefox trolls as i am in support of minorities, i am less than appalled to see how they are acting towards certain Linux guys or even own users who are insulted for creating forks for XP.
The whole Pale Moon project is a double edged sword.
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
That says more than anything.
In Basilisk was reforked by the Pale Moon team and a new release is availablePale Moon Official Branding Violation – Issue #86 – Jasperla/openbsd-wip
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