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Good day. I'm new to Pale Moon, having always been a Google user. When I go to view a video online, I'm told that I need to download Firefox. Excuse my ignorance but why would that be necessary?

Firefox exactly? I'm curious, can you give me that link.

There is not necessary to download Firefox, i think.

It's probably the website doing some kind of browser sniffing and mistakenly thinking Pale Moon is an old version of Firefox (so it's not Pale Moon asking but the website). As already asked, can you give us a link?

Thanks for the replies Fedor and Hellomustbegoing.
The link is:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
At that site it says "You are using an older version of Firefox."

If it's not correct, then I can happily ignore. It had me confused as i don't want Firefox if I don't need it. It probably is a false read due to my PM browser.

I appreciate the prompt response.

The reason why it's asking you to download Firefox is because that's a plugin checker for Firefox, not Pale Moon.

What I don't get is I don't have Firefox.

So thanks for the replies and the help.

Try setting Pale Moon to pretend that it's Firefox, (Alt) > Tools > Options > Advanced tab > Compatibility > set the User Agent Mode to Firefox Compatibility for that site. Switch back afterwards for normal browsing.

satrow wrote:Try setting Pale Moon to pretend that it's Firefox, (Alt) > Tools > Options > Advanced tab > Compatibility > set the User Agent Mode to Firefox Compatibility for that site. Switch back afterwards for normal browsing.

if palemoon is having to pretend to be firefox then palemoons objective of being a truly independent browser will sink in the water.But i feel that websites should broaden their compatibilities in regard to independent browsers.I get fed up with the web being dictated by the so called "big 3 " which i find to be utter nonsense and webmasters shoulod be held accountable for such a laissez -faire attitude.