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On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:16:34 GMT comrade meowski wrote: > > To seasoned IT vets PaleMoon is one of those head-slapping "why the hell > have you done that to yourself?" sort of things that just doesn't make > sense. Notice how none of us are using it, that should tell you a lot... Hey choice is choice. My understanding is Pale Moon is heavily customisable, that often appeals to people with esoteric input needs, and heavily backward compatibility (again people may have investments in now deprecated interfaces - I've seen organizations support entire operating systems because it was less work than changing the rest of their stack to work with new, or so they thought when they started down that route). I may agree with you but we can keep to why trying to support forks of browsers is a pain, and why Debian basically gave up trying to do it, when their forks were basically just back porting security fixes to maintain API stability during a release (which I'm sure we all agree is a goal with some clearly defined if modest value, especially if you are someone whose job is automating browser interactions - e.g. web regression testing - who inevitably ended up on stale browser versions to do just that). >From a web conferencing perspective Pale Moon isn't big on WebRTC so online conference support going to be interesting with any web application. On the other-hand faced with a choice between running most conferencing apps (free or proprietary) and running Chromium for the duration of a meeting, I'd run Chromium any day of the week. WebRTC does have one well known privacy issue, but if one is that paranoid there are also well known work arounds, but you probably also don't want to plug in a camera and microphone either. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq