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To: Terabitten
So, does Pale Moon use the same add-ons as Firefox?

If I could not use Ad-blocker, it would mean the end of web browsing for me. Despise ads just that much. Why I cannot watch live TV either.

30 posted on 04/06/2014 12:14:46 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: American Dream 246; doorgunner69
Here's my post and mini-review of yesterday's install of PaleMoon.
So far I'm very pleased, and with the profile migration tool, it was 99% hassle-free.

ps:
Have AdBlock+ and Ghostery running as tho there'd been no change in browser whatsoever .. echoing Gunner, the ads on today's www. would render it practically intolerable for me too.
Only addon that didn't migrate was All-in-One Sidebar, which I've realized since yesterday wasn't getting enough use to justify the overhead anyway.



I'll throw this out for anyone interested - my experience this morning migrating from Firefox (28) to PaleMoon browser.

I'd installed and trialed PaleMoon a couple/few ? years ago, but abandoned it due to its being finicking about importing my FF addons etc, much time having been invested in choosing/configuring same.
Hated to do it too, as PM seemed considerably quicker than FF in my unscientific comparison.

But given the Mo.nazi.zilla situation, I d/l the newest PM build (24.4.2) an hour ago and so far have been vey pleasantly surprised (seriesly) at how seamlessly the install went.
Only had one add-on that was found to be incompatible, but it's no loss as equivalent functionality was (already) found elsewhere.

Tab bar appeared on the bottom exactly as I prefer it, and tabs that were opened in FF when PM was installed popped up right where I'd left them.  Ditto re my menu layouts and bookmarks.
A profile migration tool has been developed to import all that stuff from FF.
Don't recall if such was available when I originally tried PM, but it worked like a champ on this machine.   Pale Moon profile migration tool

Anyway, so far so good, and in about ten minutes I'm gonna fire up Revo and take great pleasure in nuking Mo.nazi.zilla from my system.
Will be repeating the process on the three other machines hereabouts this weekend.
Hopefully several hundred thousand+ will do the same.

69 posted on 04/06/2014 7:59:21 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: doorgunner69
So, does Pale Moon use the same add-ons as Firefox?

All of mine work in Pale Moon, including AdBlock Plus. Go for it.

81 posted on 04/07/2014 1:44:27 PM PDT by Spirochete (Does the FedGov have the attributes of a legitimate government?)
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