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Author: zap
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Subject: Re: [DNG] The goodness of Palemoon WAS: error processing package initscripts
I have largely stayed quiet about this topic, but why not use waterfox
instead of firefox or palemoon?


He makes good changes to it removing a lot of unneeded crap. Although,
eme is still an option, most of the junk is removed. That's my thoughts
on this though. and that's easy to disable. :)



On 07/07/2017 09:10 AM, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
> On 170706-13:13+0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>> Ooops. Sorry about the previous subject line, finger slipped.
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
>>
>>> ... I'm currently without a GUI browser, because of:
>>> Building Pale Moon on Devuan fails - Pale Moon forum
>>> https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=15751
>> Pale Moon has been my browser of choice for quite a while, it's
>> running under fvwm95 and Devuan.  I just installed the binary.
> Binary is fine for regular installs... See below.
>> laptop3:~$ >>> cat /etc/devuan_version
>> jessie
>> laptop3:~$ >>> uname -a
>> Linux laptop3 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26)
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> That sure is Jessie, that's what I first installed for real (not counting
> numerous previous tries in Virtual Machines).
>> laptop3:~$ >>> palemoon -v
>> Moonchild Productions Pale Moon 27.3.0
> I've ran that same version 27.3.0, the repack available from Steven Pusser's
> repo, for one month and a half or so, but it failed on me just recently:
> Palemoon installation from source
> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=616
> ( how it failed is in the Pale Moon Forums linked there, in the recent posts of course:
>    Building Pale Moon on Devuan fails
>    https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=15751
> ).
> It is currently being built in my Air-Gapped (I'm online only with the clone of it, ever).

>
> I pretty strongly believe that it's way, way more privacy friendy than the
> intrusive "big" browsers, to cosider only GNU/Linux available: Firefox, Opera,
> Chromium. The comparison is like btwn Google and Duckduckgo.
>
> I analyze the network a lot, still learning, but what I get with my (primitive) programs:
> https://github.com/miroR/tshark-streams and
> https://github.com/miroR/tshark-hosts-conv (develop branch recommended there at this time)
> do speak very much in favor of Palemoon (or, it has started as, and still is
> mostly used as, a Windows browser, by Mark Straver: Pale Moon).
>
> I'm engrossed in the compiling, sorry for late reply...
>
> Regards!
>
>
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