I want to thank all the folks who recommended Pale Moon. I’ve just been fed the fuch up with FF because of all of the memory leaks, etc. Have been running v16 forever and whenever I’ve tried to upgrade to newer versions, they’d all pretty much just crash after 30 minutes of heavy use, and not a single version of FF that I’ve ever used has ever fixed the memory leak problems. I actually installed a program on quicklaunch so I could quickly kill FF at the point it’s consumed all of my RAM, so I can then start over with “Restore Session” with all of my previous tabs. After trying every “solution” to the leak problem, that’s the only one that every worked. Apparently the arrogant bastards at mozilla would rather tweak the UI to death rather than make a browser that actually works. They’re worse than even Microsoft because Microsoft has to listen to their customers sooner or later or go broke. Nonprofits can just drift along forever.
At any rate, I just finished installing PM, including importing everything from FF, which went flawlessly, including all settings and the plethora of add-ons I use. Only difficulty was getting roboform attached, which I can’t live without. I did finally dumb around and got the roboform taskbar program to attach roboform to PM, which then worked flawlessly. It’s necessary for the roboform taskbar program to run all time for roboform to continue to work on PM, but this is a small price to pay to ditch FF forever.
Even with minimal use so far, I’ve been stunned at how much faster PM is than FF, as well as the VERY small memory footprint occupied by PM vs FF.
Thanks again everyone for the PM tip!!! I’ll be installing PM instead of FF on all of my client’s computers in the future as well!
Pale Moon takes the basic FF and makes it better. Open Source works that way.
I can hardly wait until a Mac version becomes available.