Rodney Baker composed on 2021-02-01 00:14 (UTC+1030):
Robert Kaiser wrote:
[...] Unfortunately, Mozilla has not made it easy for others to reuse modules of Firefox (like the Gecko engine, or the SpiderMonkey JS runtime), so there's little other software building on it, and not many other specialty or alternative browsers based on it, other than Tor Browser, that is. But at least it's one serious FLOSS browser we have there. [...] Actually, there is Pale Moon - a Firefox derivative based of an earlier version of Firefox with security patches back-ported (to keep it up-to-date security/vulnerability-wise) while still supporing NPAPI plugins (Java, Flash) for those that really need it. Performance is also somewhat better than later version of Firefox (less resource-hungry).
It is available on OBS, but not on any "release" repos (only Factory/ Experimental or private repos).
I had a lot of trouble with those, so switched to using the upstream binaries. PM does a lot of CPU pegging, so needs a lot more restarting than SeaMonkey, which can go for days or weeks without trouble. -- Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion, is based on faith, not on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/