How many people used Pale Moon because of you this year?

[sinfulosd]

I recently checked this post viewtopic.php?f=65&t=31932 and I found it cheerful that one of Pale Moon developers was able to "recruit" someone that he knew to use Pale Moon.

I was very inspired by this post and I decided to make a post to encourage everyone here to post about the amount of people that you were able to make them use Pale Moon this year. Bonus point if you write the story behind it.

I'll start with mine here. My 39-year-old brother came to visit me at one point and we had to search up on something on the internet and he noticed that I was using a browser that was not like the average Chromium fork out there. He asked me about what type of browser is that, I told him it's Pale Moon. He was a PC user from all the way to Windows 98 and extensively used the internet in the 2000s era, so he felt quite nostalgic about the browser, due to how the UI reminded him of Firefox 28, which was his most favorite browser at that time. We both kept reminiscing about how the old Firefox looked like and how you could've done almost anything you want. We talked about the questionable decisions that Firefox took and how Google dictates how the majority of the internet is going nowadays. We talked about the questionable decision of Firefox retiring XUL add-on support. We spent an hour of talking about the old internet and the fact that whatever you do nowadays can never beat the feeling of navigating through the internet in the 2000s with Firefox browser instead of Internet Explorer.

Before he was going back to his home, he asked me for a download link to Pale Moon and I sent him the link. Right now he is using the browser and slowing learning (More like unlocking his old memories) how to use the browser.

I managed to get only 1 person to use Pale Moon this year. What about you? I want you to write about it down there. I'll be reading it and I'm sure a lot of people will be reading them as well.

[moonbat]

It helps if the person in question already is a power user as in your case; your friend is the right target audience for Pale Moon. He'll probably figure out how to use and customize it and can ask here for extra help if required. Bringing normies on board is no point unless you're willing to be their permanent tech support for it, and they're better off with a mainstream browser configured with an adblocker.

[andyprough]

I've gotten quite a few people to try Pale Moon including some in the past year, I don't know if they are still using it but they generally seemed to enjoy it at the time. This is kind of a Windows-centric question I think - in the GNU/Linux software world we try new software on the recommendation of friends all the time. Since Pale Moon can easily be built with various options (much more easily than any other modern browser), there's usually a few hobbyists on different distros that are tinkering with building it in different ways.

The original topic had to do with finding a browser to use on a Windows version that was past its end of life, but we don't have this problem with GNU/Linux distros. They always get updates unless the distro itself is abandoned, in which case the user just switches to a different distro. All distros that I've used can easily run Pale Moon.

[suzyne]

unless you're willing to be their permanent tech support for it, and they're better off with a mainstream browser

This.

If I suggested to any family or friends to use Pale Moon with the recommendation that they will likely need to keep a second browser on hand to use some of their most used sites, they would give me a funny look and say, "What's the point of that?!"

Sorry, but I don't know anyone for who Pale Moon would be a good fit.

[lunapalida]

No conversion, no recruitment, no religion, no politics!

IMHO because weird configurations on web sites and services there's no such thing as a jack-of-all-trades in browsers either.

I constantly switch between a handful of preconfigured browsers and other web services in a matter of seconds.

PM belongs to the favorites and I also appreciate other small surviving biotopes e.g. basilisk/falcon/gecko/goanna/seamonkey/serpent/TOR and I even have some foxes and a wolf...

[PapaiMark]

People walk in the streets hitting their foreheads in trees and poles, watching something in instagram or tiktok.
They don't care. The "came-with" browsers are enough.
An now, FF, every day, comes with that annoying flag "Your browser 25789.00017 is outdated!
Upgrade to the newest-enhanced-ful featured-fantastic version 25789.00018 or you will die alone tomorrow.
Chrome got about 67% / 2024 and Opera (OPERA!!!) 2%. (Market Share, US)
Why Opera? They advertise everywhere without any sense of decency.

PM has been my default browser for the last +- 10 years and it is getting better.
The last barrier was Pinterest, but it is OK now.
Few Years ago, many Brazilian scripts didn't run on it and I used FF for second (runs every local script) and Vivaldi for third (smooth for 9Gag, no lags).

I know this doesn't answer the topic. Just wanted to show my point of view.

img just to show coders how I like my front end way.

[wmlive]

I managed to get only 1 person to use Pale Moon this year. What about you? I want you to write about it down there. I'll be reading it and I'm sure a lot of people will be reading them as well.

Judging by the world wide download statistics for the ISO images of my Linux distribution project, roundabout 3.000 downloaders have been provided with Pale Moon 33.5.0 as default browser. Of these downloads, slightly less than a third of all ISO downloads were for the 32bit version. No idea though how many direct downloads of the three binary variants from the associated package repository have happened so far.