Pale Moon
Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and customization.
It Looks like the classic version of Firefox (before all of the awful changes in Firefox).
Official Web Site:
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Installation
The Pale Moon Recommended Way
Rather than using APT they recommend using their installer:
Download the installer, compatible with Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and other distros
File looks like: pminstaller-0.2.4.tar.bz2
Extract the install script within the archive (just a text file shell script) and place it in your home directory: /home/username and then execute it from your xorg file manager
Download the Windows installer: Windows XP --- Windows 10
APT or Synaptic
Synaptic Package Manager can be used to install Pale Moon
or
APT from command line on Ubuntu / Mint / Debian
sudo apt update sudo apt install palemoon
note: It is still recommended that rather than using APT, you use the official install as suggested above.
Illustration
Troubleshooting
Your Pale Moon profile cannot be loaded
Don't initially run Pale Moon as root. If you did, or for some other reason you cannot get Palemoon to launch with an error regarding the profile being locked or missing...
- First thing, delete the home-user-cache
sudo rm -rf /home/username/.cache/moonchild productions
- Ensure permissions
sudo chown username /home/.moonchild\ productions
See forum post: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=43608
What Firefox addons and extensions are supported
https://addons.palemoon.org/incompatible/
How to disable Search From Address Bar
Google calls it Omnibox. I call it Annoyingbox.
- about:config
- change "keyword.enabled" to "false"
reference: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=15484
Save Image As Save Per Site Annoyance
Due to their bad judgement, the Blue Moon developers brought this horrible bloatware feature over from Firefox.
If you want Pale Moon to always remember and use your last save file location instead of changing them per domain/subdomain, create a new boolean key in about:config named "browser.download.lastDir.savePerSite" and set it to false.
