![]() Eventually, I wasn’t able to get the computer fully booted up (things froze right after the ‘windows starting’ screen). I’d get error messages or they’d freeze up. I tried doing malware/spyware scans, but the complete/full versions of those wouldn’t finish. (That’s the technical term, right?) Pale Moon and FF started crashing. Just a warning: I recently downloaded the 64-bit Pale Moon browser for my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit desktop and soon everything started going kaflooey. And if it turns out you do like it, click that little donation button on the Pale Moon website. Pale Moon is based on FF 24.5 ESR, which is perfect for me because that’s exactly the version that Slackware 14.1 is using right now 100% profile compatibility. I would definitely recommend it to folks who love their FF, but want something just a wee bit lighter. Of course, I haven’t tested thoroughly, but after the few hours that I have been using Pale Moon, I’d have to say it’s a solid little app. It also seems to be a bit faster to respond, but that could just be my imagination. The only time I see any significant CPU usage is when scrolling on highly graphic intensive pages, like Bing Image Search or similar, but nowhere near the CPU usage that FF was displaying. Impressive! I’ve been using this browser all afternoon today. It opens the very first time looking and functioning 99.9% like my FF Bookmarks, extensions, addons, plugins all working right off. All I had to do after that was copy my default FF profile into the Pale Moon directory and change the profile.ini to point to it. I had the browser installed in less than a minute. Well, surprise! Their little tar.bz2 package actually has a minimal install script included. Since I’ve run Slackware as my primary operating system on all my machines for almost 8 years now, I knew that I’d probably have to compile this on my own from source code that I downloaded from the Pale Moon folks. So, I figured I’d give it a try.Ī screenie thumbnail of my Pale Moon browser That would save me a lot of work when it comes to setting up. What really had me jumping for joy was the fact that Pale Moon would work with existing FF profiles. I immediately went over to their site to have a looksee. Well, Fran (Li’l Bambi Scot’s Newsletter Forums) mentioned an alternative that I had heard of, but had forgotten all about up until I saw her posting today. It’s going to be tough to break away from FF, I thought… I’m just daunted by the amount of work involved to get them to do what my FF already does so well. Anyway, I played around with both Opera and Chromium for a while. You’ll be getting a substantial donation, Eric, if I can ever get my personal finances in order again. I then installed Chromium (not Chrome, but close enough) from a SlackBuild from Alien Bob’s (Eric Hameleers) repository. I already had Opera installed on my Slackware, so I updated it. □ When this happened to me first thing this morning, it got me motivated to maybe find a browser alternative to FF for a while. Oh, well… I almost suspect Adobe Flash, but can’t blame everything on them. FF still displays this annoying habit of jamming up CPU cycles when you first start it up. I’ve done all the usual: make sure extensions/plugins are all up-to-date, start in Safe Mode, start with a fresh profile, etc. Still, for the first few minutes of operation each day, it gobbles CPU cycles to the point where it actually freezes up while trying to load two or three websites in tabs. Now I clear-all when closing my browser, so I’m starting it back up with minimal overhead. It usually happens when I first open the browser. Unfortunately, sometime in the past few months, FF has developed some CPU cycle hogging tendencies that really are beginning to aggravate me. It’s not to graphics intensive to display. However, lately I’ve gotten FF pretty much just the way I want it. I used to heavily customize my FF, even using userChrome scripts to manipulate things under the hood. I never could get them to do the things that I wanted my browser to do. I’ve tried other browsers: Epiphany, Midori, IceSkunk - er… I mean Weasel (in Debian), Konqueror (an old fav), etc. I’ve been married to Mozilla Firefox (and Thunderbird) since I came to GNU/Linux full-time nearly 8 years ago. ![]() Eric Layton | Filed under: Browsers, Open Source | Tags: addons, Chrome, Chromium, extensions, faster browsing, Firefox, Linux, Pale Moon, profiles, Seamonkey, Slackware | 26 Comments Pale Moon Browser – a Review Posted: | Author: V.
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