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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