Firefox-compatible Palemoon 25 for XP?
Posted: 2014-10-15, 11:23
I see from this thread (http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=5985&p=38734#p38734) that vitaliy_17 has built a version of Palemoon 25 for XP with the GUID changes rolled back, apparently without too much difficulty and working well.
Is there any chance this could be released as an "official" 3rd party build?
I understand Moonchild's desire to make Palemoon his own product, completely independent from Firefox, and his frustration with the lack of standards compatibility on many web sites and problems with add-on incompatibility. This is the same problem faced by many "minority" browsers, and a large part of the reason they will all probably remain minority. Unfortunately it's unrealistic to expect many web designers to make any special effort to support browsers other than the "Big four" (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera), and similarly unrealistic to expect any more than a handful of add-on designers to make special mods for a minority browser, even for those add-on which are still actively supported. It's all very well to say that it is the responsibility of web and add-on developers to keep up, but the reality is that most will not do so if there is nothing in it for them, and the only people disadvantaged by this are the users of minority browsers.
From messages in these forums it is clear that a lot of users, like me, came to Palemoon to find a Firefox-compatible browser without the frenetic sequence of updates, and specifically without abominations like Australis. The fact that Palemoon could run almost all Firefox add-ons, even many abandoned ones, without modification was probably the biggest plus point.
Many of us will also be reluctant to upgrade operating systems (and most likely the hardware to run them) beyond XP just to support a browser, even one as good as Palemoon.
Since it appears that a build meeting these requirements has already been done, I (and I suspect many others) would very much like to try it out.
Is there any chance this could be released as an "official" 3rd party build?
I understand Moonchild's desire to make Palemoon his own product, completely independent from Firefox, and his frustration with the lack of standards compatibility on many web sites and problems with add-on incompatibility. This is the same problem faced by many "minority" browsers, and a large part of the reason they will all probably remain minority. Unfortunately it's unrealistic to expect many web designers to make any special effort to support browsers other than the "Big four" (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera), and similarly unrealistic to expect any more than a handful of add-on designers to make special mods for a minority browser, even for those add-on which are still actively supported. It's all very well to say that it is the responsibility of web and add-on developers to keep up, but the reality is that most will not do so if there is nothing in it for them, and the only people disadvantaged by this are the users of minority browsers.
From messages in these forums it is clear that a lot of users, like me, came to Palemoon to find a Firefox-compatible browser without the frenetic sequence of updates, and specifically without abominations like Australis. The fact that Palemoon could run almost all Firefox add-ons, even many abandoned ones, without modification was probably the biggest plus point.
Many of us will also be reluctant to upgrade operating systems (and most likely the hardware to run them) beyond XP just to support a browser, even one as good as Palemoon.
Since it appears that a build meeting these requirements has already been done, I (and I suspect many others) would very much like to try it out.