Pale Moon 33.5.0 and potential issue with FB

[copymanle]

Currently I'm using a mid-2007 MacBook with macOSX 10.7.5. Pale Moon 33.5.0 runs pretty well, although it quickly runs out of the scarce amount of RAM (2 GB only), forcing me to force close the app.
However, from the previous release, there is a potential issue with Facebook: whenever I launch it, a dialog box warns me that the browser is no longer supported.It seems that suddenly FB identifies the last two releases of Pale Moon as Firefox 46.

[dbsoft]

I'm not running on such a low resource machine... but I login to facebook fine, it has recently started popping up messages about the browser not being supported but it still works anyway. I presume that is not a Mac specific thing, pretty sure the same thing happens on Windows too.

[CHris Hitarori]

Happens on instagram.com, too, no matter which 'compatibility' mode I use, but it still works.

BTW the mid-2007 MacBook can (unofficially) take up to 3 GB of RAM, and more importantly you can easily replace the spinning HD with a 2.5" SATA SSD (e.g. 480 GB Crucial BX = 35€) for cheap. It'll be like a newborn machine since it can swap RAM to disk at such high speed the low RAM doesn't really matter anymore.

[somdcomputerguy]

I'm not running on such a low resource machine... but I login to facebook fine, it has recently started popping up messages about the browser not being supported but it still works anyway. I presume that is not a Mac specific thing, pretty sure the same thing happens on Windows too.

I would say nearly the exact same thing. I run the latest ver. of Pale Moon, the latest ver. of Win 10 Home. I can also login fine and that message pops up within seconds, everything works anyway except the pre-existing PM/FB battle, namely the 'paste before post' thing.

[BenFenner]

Yes, other than Facebook performance being slow as a dog, and closing the last FB tab hanging the browser for a while, and the paste-before-typing issue, I too am using Facebook in Pale Moon "without issue". The message about Pale Moon not being supported is relatively new, and coincided with a recent browser update. It also seems to have FB running even slower than before by a marked amount. I have since blocked that browser non-support message with uBO and FB behaves a little better.

I mainly wanted to post about the verbiage they used in that message. It says something like "Your browser is no longer supported, please ..." which I find very intriguing. By the wording of it, it implies that Pale Moon has been officially supported for over a decade by Facebook. I wonder why they dropped support.

[Night Wing]

I mainly wanted to post about the verbiage they used in that message. It says something like "Your browser is no longer supported, please ..." which I find very intriguing. By the wording of it, it implies that Pale Moon has been officially supported for over a decade by Facebook. I wonder why they dropped support.

Just a guess on my part and it is a "cynical" guess.

Since Pale Moon is considered a niche browser and does not have a lot of market share, browser wise, who ever is at Facebook who has to make sure a browser will work with Facebook, figures since Pale Moon does not have a lot of market share, it would be LESS work for them if they did not have to support Pale Moon.

The above is my "diplomatic reason" why.

[Moonchild]

I mainly wanted to post about the verbiage they used in that message. It says something like "Your browser is no longer supported, please ..." which I find very intriguing. By the wording of it, it implies that Pale Moon has been officially supported for over a decade by Facebook. I wonder why they dropped support.

They never supported Pale Moon. However, they probably think we are "Firefox 102" because that is the version number currently supplied as compatibility version by Pale Moon, and they no longer support Firefox 102.

[BenFenner]

Yah, I was under no delusion they ever supported Pale Moon. I just found their wording silly in its implications.

(But maybe if the user agent is changed they would report they've never supported such and such browser. )

[Moonchild]

Feel free to try it by setting the compatibility mode to "Native" then visiting FaceBook.