What is the "official" way to launch Pale Moon

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Walter Dnes
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What is the "official" way to launch Pale Moon

Unread post by Walter Dnes » 2015-12-04, 04:00

I've built it and installed it in directory ~/pm and it works. There appear to be 4 ways of launching it...
  • pm/palemoon
    pm/palemoon-bin
    pm/run-mozilla.sh pm/palemoon
    pm/run-mozilla.sh pm/palemoon-bin
Is there any preference; e.g. is any of the 4 options more robust than the others?
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jumba

Re: What is the "official" way to launch Pale Moon

Unread post by jumba » 2015-12-04, 05:40

see bug #658850, they are duplicates. But I don't know what run-mozilla.sh does.
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Re: What is the "official" way to launch Pale Moon

Unread post by trava90 » 2015-12-04, 06:45

pm/palemoon should work just fine :)
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Re: What is the "official" way to launch Pale Moon

Unread post by Lucio Chiappetti » 2015-12-04, 08:55

I launch it (*) with "netscape" :mrgreen:
lucio 1 > which netscape
netscape: aliased to /usr/bin/palemoon $WWW_HOME &

(*) if I inadvertently type control-Q to quit it, actually it is started by fvwm :D
+ "I" Test (Init) Exec exec /usr/bin/palemoon $WWW_HOME
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Re: What is the "official" way to launch Pale Moon

Unread post by squarefractal » 2015-12-04, 09:32

palemoon and palemoon-bin are the same file; whereas run-mozilla.sh is a shell script that is used to invoke Pale Moon with debugging options. At least that is the stated purpose of the script, but I haven't used it.
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Re: What is the "official" way to launch Pale Moon

Unread post by Walter Dnes » 2015-12-04, 23:41

Thanks for the replies. I'll go with "~/pm/palemoon" because it's the least amount of typing, and I'm lazy.
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