Firefox forks

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by Joxx, Sep 12, 2014.

  1. syrinx

    syrinx Registered Member

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    I was content with FireFox until a few of the more recent (ad) changes came to be. Palemoon gave me an alternative that also happened to cater to a few of the other UI changes I disliked but dealt with anyhow. I see PaleMoon a bit more as the path I thought FireFox was meant to take so I've stuck with it so far and have no complaints (yet).
     
  2. The Red Moon

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    No i have not tried any firefox forks myself although if i did then palemoon or cyberfox seem to be the general main forks to go for although to be honest i find it odd that these forks of firefox apparently run "faster" than the original firefox which begs the question as to why mozilla cannot implement these "speed enhancements" themselves or is the forks conveying a placebo effect in terms of speed.

    I have experimented with chrome for a while and did not experience any speed difference in comparison to firefox.Thing with chrome i dont particularly like is the fact i cannot do anything with the interface in terms of customization.Chrome is a wonderful browser but i like to change things around occasionally.
     
  3. chrcol

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    Have adjusted my extensions and disabled some tracking stuff such as netpredictor, beacons and pings, now the browser is flying. Very fast. Although its plausible normal firefox may get the same speed improvement with my changes.

    I havent had a single crash or lockup in the browser since changing so to me 64bit is conclusive in adding stability.

    The only downside I have is that there is no DRM plugin on 64bit. Pretty bad from adobe given that 64bit is mainstream now. I guess mozilla only paid them for 32bit as they still in the mindset foi 32bit is enough.

    Also remember 64bit has security enhancements over 32bit as well with native protections.

    Cyberfox also very fast on updates, today my laptop (still using 32bit firefox) got a popup for 38.0.5, and when I checked the cyberfox updater the update was available.

    Also he disabled logjam ciphers (which I think base firefox has 'not' done)

    https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html
     
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  4. The Red Moon

    The Red Moon Registered Member

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    The only concern with pale moon is if the sole developer throws in the towel then who takes up development.When you look at the whole browser spectrum this is a david and goliath scenario.Most web development surrounds mainstream browsers.Pale moon is in a state of total divergence from the mozilla code,so will web developers embrace this new divergent browser in a significant number.
    Only time will tell.
     
  5. ArchiveX

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    Great info! :thumb:
     
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