On Mon, 2 May 2016, E. Liddell wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2016 18:38:15 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis davisf@union.edu wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2016, E. Liddell wrote:
(Me? PaleMoon, which is a fork of Firefox from before they trashed the UI, but I'm a control freak with unusual requirements.)
please just a little bit about how Palemoon suits your control freak/unusual requirements?
Basically, it has all of the configurability Firefox had before Mozilla started systematically gutting it a little while back. This includes supporting at least 75% of the Firefox extensions that existed when it was forked.
My primary browser profile has a whole bunch of add-ons and settings designed to keep me from seeing anything I don't want to see. I don't, as a general rule, load scripts, video, audio, webfonts, or even images unless I actually feel that they'll add something to the page. The extension I use for image filtering (ImgLikeOpera) no longer works with Firefox, and all the substitutes I've tried are inferior. It still works perfectly well with PaleMoon. Like I said, control freak. ;)
In this profile, I typically have 100+ tabs open, spread across eight windows. PaleMoon doesn't seem to have any problem with this, and remains responsive.
100+ tabs?!?!
pardon: I'm going to delete some remarks I read with great interest but have nothing right now to reply.
The profile I use when dabbling in web development has a completely different set of extensions--Firebug and such. Another profile points at a proxy server. Not all browsers make it easy to have multiple diverse profiles for the same user.
Also, because PaleMoon uses the old, pre-Australis Firefox UI, it doesn't try to hide important things that I want to see, like the address bar and main menu. It's even still got a status bar.
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I wish I had more control over fonts (or knew better how to control them). I cannot bear sites with washed-out fonts (gmail) or pages with black background and small white (or other colors!) fonts. the extensions I've tried haven't been terribly effective.
I should also note that there are certain features that a lot of people seem to want that I *don't* need. I don't care about multiple device synchronization support
I definitely DON'T want that!
, for instance, and I don't generally watch streaming video. So I don't know how good my browser of choice is at those things.
I often have need to download streams.
(That was probably a bit disorganized. Sorry.)
no apologies at all needed, I found it very interesting. (again, forgive the deletions.)
I certainly don't have your needs (or kit!) but I would like an extension that keeps advertisement audio from playing.
generally I'm not that concerned about blocking ads but I see the point, especially on pages with far more ads than content.
I'll have a closer look at Palemoon. just tried to darken the fonts on gmail but didn't get very far. I just want black on a light background. (my main email client is actually alpine - text; so simple and clean.)
thanks again for the remarks.
f.