About checking for SSE2 support…

[Agent Orange]

On linux.palemoon.org, it has the following instructions for checking the processor for SSE2 support:

Linux system requirements

Pale Moon requires a processor which supports the SSE2 instruction set, and will not run on processors that do not support it.

You can check if your processor supports SSE2 by typing the following into the terminal: cat /proc/cpuinfo

But doing this just gives a dump of data which is not easily or intuitively parsable:

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$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 4
model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping	: 3
microcode	: 0x5
cpu MHz		: 2800.000
cache size	: 2048 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 1
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 5
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips	: 5985.02
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 128
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 4
model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping	: 3
microcode	: 0x5
cpu MHz		: 2800.000
cache size	: 2048 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 1
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 5
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips	: 5985.02
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 128
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

$ 

(Even I, who know precisely what I'm looking for, still found it a nuisance to pinpoint the "sse2".)

It would probably be a good idea to revise the section to read:

Linux system requirements

Pale Moon requires a processor which supports the SSE2 instruction set, and will not run on processors that do not support it.

You can check if your processor supports SSE2 by copying and pasting the following command into the terminal: grep -om1 sse2 /proc/cpuinfo

If this outputs sse2, your processor is supported. If there is no output, your processor is not supported.

[trava90]

Thanks for the suggestion! I've updated the page.