search.brave.com not displaying search summary paragraphs

[Mavericks_10_9]

Pale Moon 34.3.0.1
uBO 1.16.6.1

iMac Intel Core 2 Duo
OS X 10.9.5

All the big internet search platforms offer AI summaries now. I generally like the one from Brave. Unfortunately, Pale Moon isn't displaying the search summary paragraphs' text as it should, just grey bars. See attached image. I have my default search engine set to Brave.

Thanks for checking it!

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[andyprough]

All the big internet search platforms offer AI summaries now. I generally like the one from Brave. Unfortunately, Pale Moon isn't displaying the search summary paragraphs' text as it should, just grey bars.

It's working with Basilisk. This is another example where it appears that Basilisk's default polyfills are making various AI pages work that don't work in Pale Moon. Not sure what to tell you, Pale Moon just doesn't have the compatible ReadableStream, TextDecoderStream, TextEncoderStream, TransformStream options right now to make it work, I don't think.

[Goodydino]

I use the Brave search and I see the summaries for the search results with Pale Moon and with the other 5 browsers that I use.

[andyprough]

I use the Brave search and I see the summaries for the search results with Pale Moon and with the other 5 browsers that I use.

Are you looking at the AI Summary?

This is what I get with Pale Moon, on a clean profile with no extensions - you can see a big blank space near the top:

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Here's what I get with Basilisk - the AI summary is clear at the top:

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[Goodydino]

I see what you mean. I thought you meant the brief paragraph that appears under every link. There is no summary right at the top of the page with either Pale Moon or SeaMonkey, but there is with Waterfox.

[andyprough]

I see what you mean. I thought you meant the brief paragraph that appears under every link. There is no summary right at the top of the page with either Pale Moon or SeaMonkey, but there is with Waterfox.

I'm not as interested in the Waterfox behavior, which should mirror that of the latest Firefox, as I am in the difference between the Pale Moon and the Basilisk behavior. Basilisk is showing the AI summaries whereas Pale Moon is not - it would seem that they should be in greater alignment in their web compatibility.

[Moonchild]

It's something I wanted to work on. It's been a desirable feature to be able to add web compatibility shims into the browser while the APIs and sugar are not (yet) present in the platform. Basilisk-dev has done that by having embedded userscripts using polyfills. I've been wanting to adopt that idea for a while but just haven't been able to make the free time and energy.

[andyprough]

It's something I wanted to work on. It's been a desirable feature to be able to add web compatibility shims into the browser while the APIs and sugar are not (yet) present in the platform. Basilisk-dev has done that by having embedded userscripts using polyfills. I've been wanting to adopt that idea for a while but just haven't been able to make the free time and energy.

Yes, I noticed when working on getting the Janitor AI page working in Pale Moon the other day that the Basilisk polyfill userscripts do not work perfectly in Pale Moon using Greasemonkey, because apparently Pale Moon uses a different method of loading the userscripts and does it in a different order than Basilisk. Correct me if I'm wrong on that. However, I was able to get the requisit Basilisk polyfills all together in the correct order in a single Greasemonkey script that did work with Pale Moon for that one AI page. Seems like it may take some thoughtful coding to get them to work routinely across all sites in Pale Moon.

[Basilisk-Dev]

apparently Pale Moon uses a different method of loading the userscripts and does it in a different order than Basilisk. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.

I just forked the old Greasemonkey for Pale Moon (not sinfulosd's newer updated Greasemonkey) and stripped out everything but the absolute bare minimum for it to inject Greasemonkey scripts into web pages. That's why, with some modifications, the scripts can be used in Greasemonkey on Pale Moon like you mentioned.

They absolutely do have to be loaded in a specific order, because some of the stream polyfills require other stream functions that are also being polyfilled. So you have to load the prerequisite polyfills first.

Insert xzibit "Yo dawg I heard you like polyfills" meme here.