It remains an easily used browser that I have largely mastered. I've seen a lot of complaints about Firefox 30, which don't seem to apply to Pale Moon. (hat tip to Corrine for the recommendation)Īfter a few weeks of using Pale Moon, my opinion of it has not changed. But as I gain more experience with PM, I might well replace FF with it as my secondary browser for Win 7.Īs always, YMMV. I have no plans to switch to PM on my Win 7 systems, as I'm perfectly happy with IE11. In an ideal world, I suppose I would not be using XP at all online these days, and certainly not outside of a sandbox or VM. I don't use it for sensitive communications and transactions. I've no idea if it is safer than the alternatives, but it gives me no grief. In short, PM is the most user-friendly browser I've used with XP recently. There is a user support forum, but not a lot of info or posts. Hovering over links displays nothing, whether or not the browser is sandboxed. Although I was able to activate the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen, it remains blank. If you run PM sandboxed, all these files are deleted automatically when Sandboxie is closed CCleaner analysis detects nothing, so perhaps this is not a concern. When I run Pale Moon outside of Sandboxie, I see 10s of MBs of these files in CCleaner, recognised as FF files, when running an analyse scan. I have not figured out how to delete the browser/history/cookie cache on closing the browser yet. I'm a bit reluctant to attempt installing the FF WOT toolbar at this time into PM. I have not figured out how to install the WOT toolbar yet. My resident Panda Cloud AV free, HitmanPro and Emsisoft on-demand AV scanners, and MBAM (PRO) all play well with PM. I have seen some reports that certain security programs object to it (Norton and AVG, possibly others). To me this is a plus, as I do not like any software installing without my explicit permission. You can check internally for newer versions, and upgrade manually (Help>About Pale Moon). It does not update to new versions automatically, nor does it install FF updates. Its default search engine is DuckDuckGo, which I actually prefer to Google. Anyone familiar with FF should be able to configure it, since the GUI is similar. It has de-cluttered a lot of FF, with a more intuitive/simpler interface. I no longer get that annoying alert to terminate the firefox.exe process (it runs a palemoon.exe process, which does not stay in memory when the browser is closed). It is definitely faster than FF 29.0 for me. Easy download/installation, with no bundled junkware or ads. Initial impressions, after using it for a few days: Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available for XP/sp3 and newer Windows systems. (You don't need to uninstall FF first - they can co-exist). It has been getting positive reports in a number of security forums, is compatible with XP/sp3, can be run in Sandboxie, and a new version (24.6.0) involving extensive updates was recently released. Which brings us to the free Pale Moon (PM) browser, modeled on Mozilla/Firefox, but using its own code. Uninstalling/reinstalling FF does not work. None of them are simple, and after trying a few I lost patience. I Googled the message, and there are a ton of suggestions on how to fix it. It is certainly new behaviour in the past few months, at least in XP. Why this process persists after closing FF, I have no idea. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." I end up killing firefox.exe in task manager or in WinPatrol. And it has developed a new glitch: about half the time when I try to open FF I get an alert that " Firefox is already running, but is not responding. I was using Firefox29.0 with Sandboxie but it is now slow as molasses. Using IE8 is out of the question for me, now that it is no longer supported. I had hoped to completely disconnect my XP from the internet, but I still find it useful to run it next to Win 7 to troubleshoot problems on occasion.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |