It's about time that Palemoon get their own Slashdot stories
So submit some. Personally, I'd like to see a current, comprehensive benchmark comparison between latest release Pale Moon versus Water Fox versus Firefox versus Chrome versus Edge versus Brave. I'd also like to see charts on the percentage of user share browsers like Pale Moon have (might be difficult or impossible if they don't have their own user agent string).
Gone are pretty much all the extensions that separated Firefox from Chrome.
The developers of NoScript and uBlock Origin say Firefox's WebExtensions API is the best of any browser. The API isn't standing still. New features are getting added. Firefox's implementation of WebExtensions does more than Chrome's does.
I saw weird issues with Edge's PDF support a while back. Edge wouldn't show images in some PDFs. The same PDFs worked fine in every other PDF viewer I tried. I haven't tried the PDFs again with the latest version of Edge so it's possible the problem's been fixed.
don't mention that Mozilla is apparently merely copying the Google Chrome browser
No, this is a separate issue. Firefox has long had attack site warnings. I think Internet Explorer was the first to have unsafe site warnings starting with Internet Explorer 7 11 years ago, so everyone's copying Microsoft.
You've made it clear that you're a conspiracy nutcase but why can't you stick to good and honest conspiracies? Like how the Grey aliens are in league with the lizard men to take control of world government which, as everyone knows, is currently run by the Illuminati and Major League Baseball.
You don't click to request, for example, any of the images. Or any other resource in the page (or subpages in iframes) which could be sourced from any other webserver on the web.
What product failure? Firefox 57 works. Mozilla has been telling everyone they'll be making this transition for over two years. NoScript wasn't released on time, even though it had plenty of time.
Yes. uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, etc. are similar add-ons that made the transition smoothly. In the end it's up to the NoScript developer to get it done like the others have. And he will eventually (even though so far he has missed the three deadlines he set himself).
here is a suspiciously large number of articles here talking about how great 57 is
Oh noes. It must be a conspiracy perpetrated by the shadowy Them who are out to get you.
I outed a Mozilla undercover employee shilling for them in the comments
You did no such thing. To repeat, I have no association with Mozilla whatsoever. Your fantasies are truly sad. You are a paranoid delusional and you need help.
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It's about time that Palemoon get their own Slashdot stories
So submit some. Personally, I'd like to see a current, comprehensive benchmark comparison between latest release Pale Moon versus Water Fox versus Firefox versus Chrome versus Edge versus Brave. I'd also like to see charts on the percentage of user share browsers like Pale Moon have (might be difficult or impossible if they don't have their own user agent string).
Gone are pretty much all the extensions that separated Firefox from Chrome.
The developers of NoScript and uBlock Origin say Firefox's WebExtensions API is the best of any browser. The API isn't standing still. New features are getting added. Firefox's implementation of WebExtensions does more than Chrome's does.
Quantum completely broke noscript
NoScript is available for Firefox Quantum. Read the developer's blog to get the latest NoScript status.
Personally I use uBlock Origin and I've also set Firefox's built-in tracking protection to "always".
Microsoft's new browser tackles PDFs pretty well
I saw weird issues with Edge's PDF support a while back. Edge wouldn't show images in some PDFs. The same PDFs worked fine in every other PDF viewer I tried. I haven't tried the PDFs again with the latest version of Edge so it's possible the problem's been fixed.
once you've installed the necessary 10-15 extensions
What are the necessary 10-15 extensions?
how's that performance then?
Benchmark it and report back.
don't mention that Mozilla is apparently merely copying the Google Chrome browser
No, this is a separate issue. Firefox has long had attack site warnings. I think Internet Explorer was the first to have unsafe site warnings starting with Internet Explorer 7 11 years ago, so everyone's copying Microsoft.
You've made it clear that you're a conspiracy nutcase but why can't you stick to good and honest conspiracies? Like how the Grey aliens are in league with the lizard men to take control of world government which, as everyone knows, is currently run by the Illuminati and Major League Baseball.
There's no reason it couldn't proactively send me those images
The images could be served from a different server. This is commonly done by many websites, including Slashdot.
why the flip should my browser send anything else to the server before I click another link?
So the page can refresh itself for live updating content.
You don't click to request, for example, any of the images. Or any other resource in the page (or subpages in iframes) which could be sourced from any other webserver on the web.
If you want UI changes in NoScript then tell the developer of NoScript. He says he wants to hear everyone's UI ideas.
Web browsers send data to a webserver every time you request a web page and every element within a page. How could HTTP work otherwise?
temporary permissions
They're still there. See the developer's blog post.
Previously I would have said NoScript
Use it again. NoScript has been released for Firefox 57.
This is yet one more reason why I never browse without NoScript and uBlock Origin.
In Firefox 57 there's now also the option to turn on its built-in tracking protection all the time, as opposed to only in private browsing mode.
Who's angry? I'm rather sad that you are so ignorant.
No, I mean this about mozilla. Try learning something.
Maybe you should read what the NoScript developer said over a year ago. Or are you going to claim that he knows nothing also?
He didn't say that you have an association with Mozilla,
He said exactly that. He called me a "Mozilla undercover employee", which is nonsense. It's lunatic drivel.
I can confirm that.
You confirm nothing. Run Firefox 57 and go to about:mozilla. This has long been an easter egg in Firefox.
Whatever, you lunatic. Just buy your tin foil hat and be as crazy as you like.
There was no point to miss.
What product failure? Firefox 57 works. Mozilla has been telling everyone they'll be making this transition for over two years. NoScript wasn't released on time, even though it had plenty of time.
Yes. uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, etc. are similar add-ons that made the transition smoothly. In the end it's up to the NoScript developer to get it done like the others have. And he will eventually (even though so far he has missed the three deadlines he set himself).
could have helped NoScript migrate
They did. All that's happened is that the new NoScript hasn't been delivered in time for Firefox 57. Here's the latest NoScript status.
here is a suspiciously large number of articles here talking about how great 57 is
Oh noes. It must be a conspiracy perpetrated by the shadowy Them who are out to get you.
I outed a Mozilla undercover employee shilling for them in the comments
You did no such thing. To repeat, I have no association with Mozilla whatsoever. Your fantasies are truly sad. You are a paranoid delusional and you need help.
Your "facts" are delusions. Calling them delusions is the most charitable description possible.