Pale Moon on Linux Mint 22 ?

[Greg_M]

I've got the Pale Moon browser downloaded and am having a hard time figuring out how to install and start it.
It's in a sub-directory called .moonchild productions and I am stuck at that point.
Can someone help?






Operating system:Linux Mint 22
Browser version:
32-bit or 64-bit browser?:64
Problem URL: Trying to start Pale Moon
Browser theme (if not default):
Installed add-ons:0
Installed plugins: (about:plugins):

If possible, please include the output of help->troubleshooting information (as text):

**PASTE troubleshooting information here**

[andyprough]

Easiest way is just to install the .deb from Veit Kannegiesser's repo. Just follow the instructions here: https://kannegieser.net/palemoon/

That repo is one of the Pale Moon Contributed Builds repos, which you can find out more about here: http://www.palemoon.org/contributed-builds.shtml

[Nuck-TH]

http://linux.palemoon.org/help/installation/

[Night Wing]

I am going to be the odd man out on here when it comes to the "easiest way".

The OP stated he is using Mint 22. But Mint has three desktop environments (DE's) based on Ubuntu; which are Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce. The OP never mentioned which desktop environment the OP is using.

I have been using Mint (with Xfce) since January of 2014 when linux Pale Moon was publicly released. My linux Pale Moon has never been installed because if the OP is a non-technical person like myself, using the linux Terminal can be a royal PITA.

The easiest method I use to use Pale Moon in Mint is "not" having Pale Moon installed. It is always uninstalled and I NEVER have to use the Terminal to get Pale Moon to work. To make Pale Moon run with it being uninstalled, I use gui windows instead of the Terminal. But and there is always a "but", the method I use "will not work" in Cinnamon. It "will work" in Xfce.

I am going to guess the OP is using Cinnamon and if he likes Cinnamon and does not want to experiment further, then the OP can stop reading right here. But if the OP wants to try Xfce, then keep reading at my next paragraph.

If the OP is still looking at this post, click on the link below to see my last Desktop photo (with my pet cat, Tucker) of my Mint 22.1 (Xia) Xfce with the Panel displayed, which is located at the bottom of the photo showing all of my launcher icons on a regular basis I use in Mint. This will include the Pale Moon launcher icon which is located on the right side of the Panel. It will be to the left of the Firefox launcher icon.

download/file.php?id=19729&mode=view

The above is just "food for thought" because lots of users have a lot of trouble trying to get Pale Moon working by installing it in Mint by way of the Terminal. BTW, my method also works in MX Linux as well as Debian as long as I choose the Xfce DE in both of those two linux distros as well.

And as a final point, my method of not having Pale Moon installed and having it work while staying away from using the Terminal, as long as I stay with distros which offer the Xfce DE; it works with the distros I have experimented with and they are Linux Lite, Peppermint, Spiral Linux, Sparky Linux, Xubuntu and Manjaro as well.

[Lucio Chiappetti]

Another "easiest way" possibly the opposite of what just posted.
First of all I must say I never fully understood the emphasis on different Linux flavours (major like e.g. OpenSuse or Ubuntu, minor like e.g. Ubuntu Xubuntu Lubuntu etc.) specially when the difference between flavours seems mainly the default DE (desktop environment) that comes with it. For me they are at the end all the same (maybe because I came from Unix, with many proprietary variants ... SunOS Solaris Ultrix HP-UX Tru64 ... and two basic families, BSD and SysV). Fior me ... they are all Unix.
OK the major flavour differences are the style for system config (init.d vs sysctl sort of like BSD vs SysV) and the front end tool to the distro repo for finding and installing binaries. They aren't relevant for Pale Moon which provides its own tarball.
For minor flavours I do not care a d... about the DE (actually I install my choice windown manager, fvwm, both on OpenSuse and XUbuntu and work with that). They aren't drectly relevant for Pale Moon, in the sense that it is just an application like any other. If you learn the way to insert an appllication in your menus for your choice of DE or WM, it is like any other.

Said that, the "easiest way" is to avoid any systemwide "installation", just unpack the tarball somewhere in your user home, and follow these instructions
http://linux.palemoon.org/help/installation/
My only complaint is that they aren't visible with emphasis from the download page (I saved a bookmark in order to be able to quote them)

Actually I stop to the fifth bullet, the rest is not relevant for me without a DE but with a WM.

[Johnny_Footwrinkle]

Linux mint 22 Mate Desktop

Create a new folder and call it whatever you want, move the downloaded palemoon archive into that folder and extract it there. Add an icon to the panel with the palemoon icon (whereveryouextracted/palemoon/browser/icons/mozicon128.png)

and a command like

/home/user/Extras/palemoon/palemoon

or run that command from your terminal, changing it to give the location on your machine obviously.