Mozilla Dependencies and Other Things
Posted: 2021-02-04, 04:31
Hi All,
I'm new to Pale Moon. I was looking for a new browser that was mature and worked well and I'm pleased to have found it here. I've been using Firefox and Brave mostly for the last couple of years. The main reason I'm getting away from Firefox was a statement from one of the higher ups at Mozilla that suggested building censoring and/or blacklisting into Firefox. They are done in my opinion. If they go down that path, I think they will lose whatever market-share they have left. It was just very alarming to see what kind of people are at the helm at Mozilla. btw. I'm also dumping Thunderbird for Sylpheed. Sylpheed isn't perfect but, hey, what is? I also recently had Brave spike my cpu to over 80% running a process called Software Reporter Tool in the background. It's a carryover from Chrome. I'm done with that too.
So my questions are:
1. Does the Pale Moon project get any donations or ANYTHING from Mozilla or Google? I did see you have just dumped Google Ads on your website. Very nice.
2. Do you have any intentions on doing any of the censoring or blacklisting that Mozilla is talking about? I'm assuming not but I thought I'd ask.
3. Do you get any code from Mozilla anymore? I read several posts on this forum and it sounded like you haven't since version 24 of Firefox.
Just as an aside, I did like the fact that Brave had Tor built into it. It made hitting onion sites seamless. From what I've read here, Tor is not recommended for use with Pale Moon. Is there any interest in resolving the obfuscation of the browser signature to make Pale Moon a good alternative for Tor?
Thanks,
aagrip
p.s. Great work btw.
I'm new to Pale Moon. I was looking for a new browser that was mature and worked well and I'm pleased to have found it here. I've been using Firefox and Brave mostly for the last couple of years. The main reason I'm getting away from Firefox was a statement from one of the higher ups at Mozilla that suggested building censoring and/or blacklisting into Firefox. They are done in my opinion. If they go down that path, I think they will lose whatever market-share they have left. It was just very alarming to see what kind of people are at the helm at Mozilla. btw. I'm also dumping Thunderbird for Sylpheed. Sylpheed isn't perfect but, hey, what is? I also recently had Brave spike my cpu to over 80% running a process called Software Reporter Tool in the background. It's a carryover from Chrome. I'm done with that too.
So my questions are:
1. Does the Pale Moon project get any donations or ANYTHING from Mozilla or Google? I did see you have just dumped Google Ads on your website. Very nice.
2. Do you have any intentions on doing any of the censoring or blacklisting that Mozilla is talking about? I'm assuming not but I thought I'd ask.
3. Do you get any code from Mozilla anymore? I read several posts on this forum and it sounded like you haven't since version 24 of Firefox.
Just as an aside, I did like the fact that Brave had Tor built into it. It made hitting onion sites seamless. From what I've read here, Tor is not recommended for use with Pale Moon. Is there any interest in resolving the obfuscation of the browser signature to make Pale Moon a good alternative for Tor?
Thanks,
aagrip
p.s. Great work btw.