[LINK] Of Fossildom and Other Ailments

[rene]

On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:51:39 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:

> On 13/09/15 11:32, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> On 13/09/2015 11:23 AM, Andy Farkas wrote:
>>> Time to stop using Firefox too:
>>>
>>> http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-gets-built-in-firebox-
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>> What's a good, but reliable and trustworthy alternative?
>
> Trustworthy? UTSL.
>
> I suspect someone will fork FF and hack the bad bits out.

That, i.e. fork, appears to me to have been done quite a while ago, 
resulting in the "Pale Moon" browser.
    https://www.palemoon.org/
But, as the Pale Moon lead developer explains, it's not just a simple 
rebuild of Firefox:
   "Addressing a few hot topics and general misconceptions"
   http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4564

Among other things, it doesn't have Mozilla-like "suggested tiles" 
[advert], nor the Mozilla dumbed-down "Australis" GUI, etc, etc.

Overall, imo, its much more focussed on individual end-user configurability 
and preferences, rather than trying to force a 'one-size-fits-all' attitude 
that seems to have taken over browser names such as Mozilla/Firefox and 
Opera (and has imo even longer been the case with MS IE). 

I'm under the impression that a lot of what Mozilla has done to the Firefox 
browser in recent years, that can loosely be regarded as non-user-friendly,  
can be 'undone' by installing various extensions, etc. What I like about 
Pale Moon is that it doesn't have such "anti-user" aspects installed in 
first place, so I don't "have to" spend time figuring out how to disable, 
change, or block, them.

Irene