Eclipsed Moon not working in Pale Moon 33.8.2

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Eclipsed Moon not working in Pale Moon 33.8.2

Post by jarsealer » 2025-09-02, 21:24

When restarting Pale Moon to enable Eclipsed Moon after installation, visiting https://ipleak.net to look at "Your User Agent" section, it shows the default Pale Moon user agent instead of the spoofed one from Eclipsed Moon.

Clicking the moon/eclipsed moon icon from the toolbar still didn't spoof the UA, neither did clicking "switch UA now" from the drop down menu. when changing the default eclipsed moon mode to static, it still showed the default UA.

I'm not sure why this happens, and I'm curious this happens to anyone else?

Info: I built pale moon from source on aarch64 linux.
Pale Moon, Basilisk and SeaLion arm64 user, on Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB RAM)

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Re: Eclipsed Moon not working in Pale Moon 33.8.2

Post by moonbat » 2025-09-03, 00:06

Don't screw around with the global user agent. It does nothing for privacy and will only break other sites. Site specific user agent overrides are offered for this reason, you can set one specifically for a site that reports Pale Moon as 'outdated'. Eclipsed Moon anyway is 8 years out of date, possibly abandoned and user agent handling has changed in the meantime.
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