Thank You!

[robertson]

Hello,

I just wanted to say thank you to Moonchild, athenian200, Basilisk-Dev, and any and all other contributors for Pale Moon, Epyrus, and Basilisk.

It's especially fun to play with the old Add-Ons (XUL-based, right?) that Firefox broke compatibility with long ago. I'm most pleased that I can run OverbiteFF (https://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/) in both Pale Moon and Basilisk to browse Gopher in a serious browser without http proxies.

I am especially grateful for Epyrus. I've installed it for my parents to replace Thunderbird. Now they have a nice clean e-mail client with real scrollbars and a predictable interface. THANK YOU! (Ridiculous story: As part of the "ground-up" redesign of Thunderbird from however long ago, the "Send" button utterly vanished from the Compose window for my parents. Despite much effort with fiddling with settings, I never did figure out how to get it back. They survived with hitting Ctrl+Enter to send e-mails for some while. I never went through all the hassle of building a new profile from scratch (they use POP to download their e-mails to avoid any potential trouble whatsoever with exceeding their allotted server disk space limits) to see if Thunderbird's "redesigned" interface would deign to give them a Send button again. Also, the Quick Filter search bar in the redesigned Thunderbird seemed to be confusingly obscured to the point that they didn't know that it was there or how it use it. Anyways, with Epyrus, all of these issues are more than resolved, and my Mom has remarked that using the Quick Filter for searching for e-mails is wonderful. And they have a "Send" button again. Thank you for NOT CHANGING THINGS and giving the world a stable e-mail client that won't be arbitrarily given a redesign that nobody asked for! /rant) I also use Epyrus for one of my personal e-mail addresses and love its simplicity, stability, predictability, and marvelous interface.

I don't make a ton of money, and don't donate to free software, etc., projects nearly enough, but I went ahead and bought the "challenge coin" and made a small donation on top of the minimum price. The coin is hefty and quite neat looking! Thank you for that too.

(This is my first post on the Pale Moon forum. I hope I picked the right board.)

Again, THANK YOU ALL!
"robertson"

[andyprough]

OverbiteFF (https://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/) in both Pale Moon and Basilisk to browse Gopher in a serious browser without http proxies.

Nice feature. Does OverbiteFF give access to Gemini by chance? I haven't browsed Gopher for probably 20+ years, but I browse Gemini pretty often.

Anyways, with Epyrus, all of these issues are more than resolved, and my Mom has remarked that using the Quick Filter for searching for e-mails is wonderful. And they have a "Send" button again.

I didn't know Thunderbird was messing things up so badly. Good thing athenian200 saw the need for Epyrus.

I went ahead and bought the "challenge coin" and made a small donation on top of the minimum price

Did @Moonchild get more coins made? You are right, those are beautiful, hefty coins. I often roll mine around in my non-mouse hand while I'm reading materials for work.

[Moonchild]

Did @Moonchild get more coins made?

No, these are still left over from the original amount made. No more of these will be made; when they are gone, they are gone. I've only got about 50 of them left.

[robertson]

Nice feature. Does OverbiteFF give access to Gemini by chance? I haven't browsed Gopher for probably 20+ years, but I browse Gemini pretty often.

OverbiteFF does not support the Gemini protocol. the FF version is "no longer supported" (https://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/) and was last updated in 2016, I believe, though I can't remember where I got that date. (The WX and NX versions are more actively updated for current Firefox, e.g., the OverbiteWX extension was updated "a year ago (Apr 25, 2024)" per https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbitewx/.)

I didn't know Thunderbird was messing things up so badly. Good thing athenian200 saw the need for Epyrus.

The Send button thing is indeed ridiculous. I think with a "clean" profile the issue might have resolved itself. I am probably exaggerating the issues with the Quick Filter appearance, but in any event, Epyrus seems to present it in a cleaner and/or more obvious way.