Moving to Pale Moon on Mac 10.11.6

[hopster]

Hi all

First post here. I'm on the final version of El Capitan and can't upgrade either of my machines any further.

I am thinking of moving from Chrome to Pale Moon for a few reasons:

• I want something which supports security updates

• It may use less memory with multiple tabs open

• I'm a fan of open source in general

I wonder if people here have any tips, recommendations or warnings about bugs or things that might not (easily) work.

I have already imported bookmarks which was easy, but am having some trouble working out how to import my database of passwords which I have exported as a CSV file from Chrome. Is there a simple method or perhaps an add-in?

TIA

Michael

[Lucio Chiappetti]

warnings about bugs or things that might not (easily) work.

I am a long time user of Pale Moon on linux since several years (coming from firefox) and see a lot of reasons to use it, ideally I'd like to use it exclusively, but since you asked for warnings ...

• There may be badly designed sites which are designed for chrome and do not work with Pale Moon. Usually they are of the sort "occasional visits, if they do now work with Pale Moon are not worth visiting". But occasionally they are important (railway, electricity). In many cases they are due to new features (unilateral standard updates by Google) ... that's why there is the web compatibility section here in this forum. Report the problem and often it will get fixed in a new release of Pale Moon
• It is possible that Google-specific sites (map, drive, youtube) have problems, however I found they usually work but for meet
• webrtc conferencing sites (google meet, zoom) are not supported in Pale Moon (these are the only cases I really use chrome for)

[hopster]

warnings about bugs or things that might not (easily) work.

I am a long time user of Pale Moon on linux since several years (coming from firefox) and see a lot of reasons to use it, ideally I'd like to use it exclusively, but since you asked for warnings ...

• There may be badly designed sites which are designed for chrome and do not work with Pale Moon. Usually they are of the sort "occasional visits, if they do now work with Pale Moon are not worth visiting". But occasionally they are important (railway, electricity). In many cases they are due to new features (unilateral standard updates by Google) ... that's why there is the web compatibility section here in this forum. Report the problem and often it will get fixed in a new release of Pale Moon
• It is possible that Google-specific sites (map, drive, youtube) have problems, however I found they usually work but for meet
• webrtc conferencing sites (google meet, zoom) are not supported in Pale Moon (these are the only cases I really use chrome for)

Thanks Lucio.

I do use Google meet, drive and other Google sites so I had better test that out.

M

[moonbat]

Pale Moon won't support any video conferencing on the websites of Meet/Zoom/Whatsapp etc as these features require WebRTC which Pale Moon intentionally doesn't support. Suggest you first read the general information, technical details and the roadmap to be clear about what this browser is and isn't, before you download and run it for the first time.

[sakina5]

Hi all

First post here. I'm on the final version of El Capitan and can't upgrade either of my machines any further.

I am thinking of moving from Chrome to Pale Moon for a few reasons:

• I want something which supports security updates

• It may use less memory with multiple tabs open

• I'm a fan of open source in general

I wonder if people here have any tips, recommendations or warnings about bugs or things that might not (easily) work.

I have already imported bookmarks which was easy, but am having some trouble working out how to import my database of passwords which I have exported as a CSV file from Chrome. Is there a simple method or perhaps an add-in?

TIA

Michael

I think Pale Moon doesn't support importing passwords from a CSV natively, but you can try the "Password Exporter" extension. You might need to convert your CSV to a compatible format. As for memory, Pale Moon generally uses less than Chrome with multiple tabs.