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Question primarily for Giorgio: Would it be feasible to support the Pale Moon browser? It's an optimised Firefox build, so the codebase is probably 99%the same or more.

The reason I'm interested in it is that it reverses the many controversial interface changes in Fx 4+ and makes them configurable, plus it's respecting user choice (eg no silent updating) and not chasing Mozilla's rabid-release schedule...sounds very promising.

Thrawn wrote:It's an optimised Firefox build, so the codebase is probably 99%the same or more.

For this reason there is should be no issues.

Thrawn wrote:The reason I'm interested in it is that it reverses the many controversial interface changes in Fx 4+ and makes them configurable, plus it's respecting user choice (eg no silent updating) and not chasing Mozilla's rabid-release schedule...sounds very promising.

It sets certain Firefox setting (e.g. it deactivated tabs-on-top) and install an add-on similar to Status-4-Evar, which should pose no problem. Code-wise code is not really reverted.

So you are basically just asking if in the hypothetical care there were issues specific to PaleMoon, whether he would fix them? I guess it would depend on the effort it would take.
In the past he added improvements for K-Meleon but at a certain point didn't restore compatibility when support would have required too much specific code, if I remember correctly.

Sounds good, thanks dhouwn

**EDITED TWICE** OK, it was supremely weird- but the main control button reappeared as mysteriously as it vanished. I didn't make any changes that should have affected that. So far PM appears to have minimal bugs in it. If they are there I haven't run into them yet. I run tons of add-ons and I am slowly installing and configuring them one at a time to really test them all out. The news is so-far-so-good! I really think that unless Mozilla has a massive turnaround PM is going to be the place to go.