Re: What is your favorite web browser?
By: Nightfox to on Sat Feb 25 2017 02:30 pm

There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

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Re: What is your favorite web browser?
By: Electrosys to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 07:37 am

There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

I stopped using Firefox a long time ago because they started making it look like Google Chrome.. I liked the old look of Firefox, and a while ago I found a browser called Pale Moon, which is a fork of Firefox from one of their earlier versions. They kept the old look of Firefox with Pale Moon but have kept it up to date.

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Re: What is your favorite web browser?
By: Electrosys to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 07:37 am

There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

What's the difference between the two editions? Developer Edition sounds like it would be loaded up with more useful web developer tools tham Quantum.

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Re: What is your favorite web browser?
By: Jagossel to Electrosys on Tue Mar 05 2019 09:01 pm

There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty
nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

What's the difference between the two editions? Developer Edition sounds like it would be loaded up with more useful web developer tools tham Quantum.

When Firefox 17.0.1 was released, we joked at work that it was the Enterprise Edition.. :P

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03-05-19 09:48 Nightfox wrote to Electrosys about What is your favorite web Howdy! Nightfox,

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Re: What is your favorite web browser?
By: Electrosys to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 07:37 am

There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

I stopped using Firefox a long time ago because they started making it look like Google Chrome.. I liked the old look of Firefox, and a while ago I found a browser called Pale Moon, which is a fork of Firefox from one of their earlier versions. They kept the old look of Firefox with Pale Moon but have kept it up to date.

I've heard of Pale Moon a long time ago.

Mozilla isn't updating Firefox for XP or Vista any more.

Without me checking for myself, does Pale Moon still issue update for
the older OS's? Thanks!

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Re: What is your favorite web
By: Ed Vance to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 10:14 pm

I've heard of Pale Moon a long time ago.

Mozilla isn't updating Firefox for XP or Vista any more.

Without me checking for myself, does Pale Moon still issue update for
the older OS's? Thanks!

I'm not sure, as the oldest Windows system I have is Windows 7, and I think Pale Moon works on that.

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Ed Vance wrote to Nightfox <=-

Mozilla isn't updating Firefox for XP or Vista any more.

Without me checking for myself, does Pale Moon still issue update for
the older OS's? Thanks!

I'm using K-Meleon on my older boxes - faster, but development and updates haven't happened in a while.



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Re: What is your favorite web browser?
By: Jagossel to Electrosys on Tue Mar 05 2019 09:01 pm

What's the difference between the two editions? Developer Edition sounds like it would be loaded up with more useful web developer tools tham Quantum.

The main difference between main release Firefox and Developer Edition is a theme and some developer-oriented features enabled by default. Dev edition is also one version ahead and considered in beta, so that developers can check out changes 6 weeks or so ahead of main release.

(source: I work at Mozilla :) )

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03-06-19 06:24 poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ed Vance about Re: What is your favorite
Howdy! Poindexter,

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Ed Vance wrote to Nightfox <=-

Mozilla isn't updating Firefox for XP or Vista any more.

Without me checking for myself, does Pale Moon still issue update for
the older OS's? Thanks!

I'm using K-Meleon on my older boxes - faster, but development and
updates haven't happened in a while.

I downloaded K-Meleon in March after reading Your message, Thanks!

I still am using Firefox ESR most of the time on this XP box, but do use K-Meleon quite often.

I also use Opera sometimes but recently some websites tell Me they don't
like Opera.

In 1996 I begin using a Dial Up ISP with Win 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.0 on a 486.

I used Internet Explorer (IE) first, but soon downloaded Netscape Navigator
(or was it Communicator?) when I saw IE using 16KB's for each Favorite I made.

I learned Netscape added each Bookmark to "A" Bookmark File, I liked that
much better since I had a 330MB HDD in the 486.

I didn't like IE eating up Disk Space for each Favorite I wanted to make.

I started using Firefox when Mozilla brought it out.

Firefox's Bookmark File works the same as the Netscape Browser did, One File adding Bookmarks to it in One Space on the HDD until the Space fills up and then adding some more Space from the HDD.

I think Sector is the word I should have used instead of Space but couldn't remember it the word to use was Sector or Cluster. Whatever? DUH!!!!!!!!

Thanks for recommending K-Meleon!

Also back in March, Nightfox wrote about Pale Moon looking like the older Firefox Browser.

I suppose I will add Pale Moon to my ROUNDTUIT List and see if I can use it with this XP box.

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Re: Re: What is your favorite
By: Ed Vance to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jul 02 2019 02:21 pm

In 1996 I begin using a Dial Up ISP with Win 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.0 on a 486.

I used Internet Explorer (IE) first, but soon downloaded Netscape Navigator (or was it Communicator?) when I saw IE using 16KB's for each Favorite I made.

I started using the internet around the same time (December 1995) and was using Windows 3.1 and (I think) MS-DOS 6.22 on a 386. I didn't think Internet Explorer existed at the time though.. I was using Netscape Navigator as my
web browser. It seemed Netscape was the browser everyone was talking about at the time, and IE didn't seem to have much momentum until a couple years later.

I learned Netscape added each Bookmark to "A" Bookmark File, I liked that much better since I had a 330MB HDD in the 486.

I didn't like IE eating up Disk Space for each Favorite I wanted to make.

Yeah, I only used IE for a while in the early 2000s because it seemed that a lot of web sites around that time were being made to work best with IE. I think Microsoft made IE behave slightly different from the web standards in order to take advantage of their market dominance, so that web developers would make web sites that work best in IE.

Also back in March, Nightfox wrote about Pale Moon looking like the older Firefox Browser.

I've been using Pale Moon for a while, but one thing that bugs me about it is that it seems slow.. Maybe I've gotten used to Google Chrome being fast (with each tab in its own process). I've started to like Vivaldi - Vivaldi has a lot of options that let you customize it, and it's also fairly fast (once it loads), probably because it uses the same web engine that Google Chrome uses.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: What is your favorite
By: Ed Vance to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jul 02 2019 02:21 pm

Thanks for recommending K-Meleon!

I've had luck using SeaMonkey with XP.
Its a mozilla fork and some of the original mozilla guys work on it.
It allows you to make exceptions for those ssl failures due to the symantec cert issue that the other browsers won't let you get around easily.


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