@thezerobit for a good "lighter earlier Firefox" feel you might want to look at #Palemoon

It doesn't support some of the more recent web standards, but it is actively maintained and quite performant

Pale Moon: Un navegador que apuesta por el control del usuario

La historia de un proyecto que decidió mantener vivas las funciones clásicas de la red

En el mundo de la tecnología la mayoría de los programas cambian constantemente para parecerse unos a otros pero existe un navegador llamado Pale Moon que decidió tomar un camino diferente. Este proyecto nació en el año 2009 como una versión modificada de Firefox con el objetivo de ofrecer más velocidad y permitir que los usuarios mantuvieran el control sobre la apariencia de su pantalla. Mientras que las grandes empresas eliminaban funciones para simplificar sus diseños los creadores de Pale Moon decidieron conservar herramientas que permiten cambiar temas y usar extensiones que ya no funcionan en otros navegadores modernos.

Pale Moon no utiliza el motor de búsqueda que usan Google Chrome o el nuevo Edge sino que tiene su propio motor llamado Goanna el cual es una pieza de software que interpreta el código de las páginas web de forma independiente. Esta característica es importante porque evita que una sola compañía decida cómo debe verse y funcionar todo el internet. El equipo detrás de este navegador se enfoca en que el programa consuma menos memoria de la computadora y que no incluya herramientas de rastreo que vigilan lo que hace el usuario mientras navega por la red.

A pesar de ser un proyecto pequeño mantenido por voluntarios el navegador sigue recibiendo actualizaciones para mantenerse seguro frente a las amenazas digitales actuales. Al usar Pale Moon las personas encuentran un diseño que recuerda a las versiones antiguas de los navegadores donde los menús y las barras de herramientas están siempre a la vista y se pueden acomodar al gusto de cada quien. El programa está diseñado para quienes prefieren la estabilidad y la utilidad por encima de las modas visuales que cambian cada pocos meses en la industria del software, este browser está disponible tanto para Windows como para Linux.

— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

#PaleMoon #Navegadores #Tecnología #SoftwareLibre #Privacidad #linux

@65_percenter How do we as end users (technical or not) make informed choices as to the security of a given browser?

Is Helium more or less secure than unGoogled Chromium.

Is unGoogled Chromium more or less secure than Chromium.

Is Chromium more or less secure than Chrome.

Is LibreWolf more or less secure than Firefox.

How do SeaMonkey, Waterfox and Palemoon compare to what their parent project has become.

All rhetorical I guess.

#palemoon #ungoogledchromium #waterfox #seamonkey #firefox

Some time ago Mozilla decided that tabs had to be on top.

I still know where I want my tabs, and it still disturbs me that the tabs are in the wrong place.

I have just spent a peaceful retro hour or so browsing with Palemoon. Tabs in the right spot and coloured icons to ease the stress on my ageing eyes.

Just like SeaMonkey.

Why do "UX experts" these days have to constantly keep reminding us older folk that we cannot have what we need?

#ageing #seamonkey #palemoon #tabsunderneath #firefox

#PaleMoon 34.2.2 has been released! This minor release fixes a crash that can be triggered by a certain extension by backing out an erroneous backporting of a security fix, as well as fixing more applicable security bugs from the Mozilla security advisory that couldn't make it in the previous minor release.

https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml#v34.2.2
Pale Moon - Release Notes

#PaleMoon 34.2.1 has been released! This is a bugfix and security release.

https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml#v34.2.1
Pale Moon - Release Notes

Apparently #Cloudflare's captcha is broken because it requires implementation of a draft feature in WebGL (because obviously a CAPTCHA needs sophisticated 2D/3D graphics, duuuh): https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045&start=740#p272145

Nevermind the fact that bad scrapers will simply use WebDriver or Selenium (which again, #PaleMoon will never implement) to perfectly impersonate a Cloudflare-approved browser, rendering this "defense" (if it can even be called one) useless from the start. Worse than useless even, because it helps remove an independent player fighting for an #OpenWeb (unlike #Mozilla).

But nevermind all of that, because implementing the "missing WebGL context attribute" didn't even solve the CAPTCHA not working at all: https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/3042

This is what the stock market players really invest in? Vaporware CAPTCHA? 

RE: https://pleroma.envs.net/objects/9f536445-42a8-4ff3-a365-72ee55238617

Debian packages for #palemoon 34.2.0 compiled with gtk2 for amd64/arm64/i386 have been uploaded to https://wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/pool/main/p/palemoon/ .

Variants for bookworm are distinguishable by the subrelease version 0wmlive0, and those for trixie by the subrelease version 0wmlive1.

#wmlive #debian #linux

Index of /repo/pool/main/p/palemoon

#PaleMoon 34.2.0 has been released! This is another development update with security patches as well as bug fixes focused on web compatibility and spec compliance. As always, please refer to the release notes below!

https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml#v34.2.0
Pale Moon - Release Notes

#Cloudflare is once again gatekeeping legitimate browsers like #PaleMoon, #Basilisk, and other #Goanna applications. Apparently refusing to implement something like WebDriver or Selenium which makes the browser a robot, doesn't matter at all to a supposed "anti-bot" challenge.

I don't think CF has ever fixed their #Turnstile breaking in #SeaMonkey either... It must be embarrassing that Google's reCAPTCHA does a better job than Cloudflare at this point in determining whether a browser is legitimate. Yes that Google which is notorious for user-agent sniffing. In the worst case scenario Google just manages to be annoying instead of not letting the user in at all.

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045&start=660#p271777

#OpenWeb #browser #browsers
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