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Is SeaMonkey a good alternative to Firefox?
4/6/14 | American Dream 26

Posted on 04/05/2014 10:37:31 PM PDT by American Dream 246

I've read all threads about Mozilla melt down and all suggestions to replace Firefox but everybody seems to have a different opinion. So what is the best alternative to Firefox? Hopefully some of you guys will agree on one browser. I switched to Opera and I like it but just want to make sure. What about Seamonkey? Security etc..? Thank you for your time :-)


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KEYWORDS: fascism; firefox; gaystapo; mozilla
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To: American Dream 246

I have been reading this info now for a few days and I am still unsure.
I have Windows 8 and had Chrome and it was awful.I could never get it to open.I switched to FF and it is better.
My question is,who owns,runs,manages these companies and would I be switching to the same company under a different name?
It seem as as though all these browsers use Google in one way or another.
For one IxQuick uses Google.
I’m not that savvy when it comes to computers so this will take some time to sort out.


61 posted on 04/06/2014 6:22:26 AM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

Early in my career (70s) I had the opportunity to relocate to the Silicon Valley area. Something told me that it was not in my best long term interests to do that.

While I’m sure I would have made a lot more money over my lifetime, I’m glad I avoided that place.


62 posted on 04/06/2014 6:25:37 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: RandallFlagg
The very first sentence on the Pale Moon website reads: "Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser for Microsoft Windows, focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!
63 posted on 04/06/2014 6:25:40 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (If ignorance is bliss how come there aren't more happy people?)
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To: American Dream 246
I believe PaleMoon is powered by Mozilla.
64 posted on 04/06/2014 6:31:33 AM PDT by WesternPacific (The herded sheep have finally arrived at the slaughter house.)
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To: Thermalseeker
The very first sentence on the Pale Moon website reads: "Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser for Microsoft Windows, focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!

The blessing and curse of open source is the fact that a "new" application can be based on the source of another. I don't especially like Ubuntu's desktop or the fact that it has Amazon ads so I use Linux Mint Debian which has none of the negatives but is based on Ubuntu.

Seems like the best we can do is avoid the Google search and advertisement tie-ins and the brand names Mozilla and Firefox.

65 posted on 04/06/2014 6:33:45 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: RandallFlagg
Thank you, Freedom Works, I downloaded Pale Moon it looks and works just like FF, I downloaded the migration tool and everything moved from FF to PM perfectly...most excellent now I can dump FF.

I downloaded Opera yesterday but nothing I would do allowed me to migrate my FF profile, this PM was a breeze.

I like it...sent from Pale Moon browser.

66 posted on 04/06/2014 6:34:00 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: American Dream 246

pale moon is almost like firefox. Switch to it.


67 posted on 04/06/2014 6:46:46 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: American Dream 246

Take a look at Maxthon 3. It is a great browser because it allows the user to make many individualized settings.


68 posted on 04/06/2014 7:37:30 AM PDT by wildbill
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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: American Dream 246; Terabitten; doorgunner69
Oops, sorry y'all .. think I got posters and questions mixed up or sumpin'   d:^)




70 posted on 04/06/2014 8:07:33 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: Marie

Nice write-up on the Duck !


71 posted on 04/06/2014 8:13:46 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: American Dream 246
What’s the difference between Palemoon and Waterfox?

Waterfox is for 64 bit platforms.

72 posted on 04/06/2014 8:15:39 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

A company with left wing PC views is one thing. Actively pursuing a totalitarian policy to punish those with differing thought (as Mozilla is doing) is quite another.


73 posted on 04/06/2014 8:24:54 AM PDT by spack
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To: NewHampshireDuo

One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the Mozilla email client, Thunderbird

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Can you explain “Thunderbird”? I have e-mail addresses at work, g-mail and aol mail.
Does Thunderbird use a unique @***?
Does Thunderbird route all my different mail addresses?


74 posted on 04/06/2014 8:26:54 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: American Dream 246

Bookmark


75 posted on 04/06/2014 8:28:15 AM PDT by manic4organic (It was nice knowing you, America.)
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To: American Dream 246

Bump for later.


76 posted on 04/06/2014 8:45:41 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: American Dream 246

Duck Duck Go, as I recall, uses Google but shields you from their tracking.


77 posted on 04/06/2014 9:14:38 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Steven Tyler
Can you explain “Thunderbird”? I have e-mail addresses at work, g-mail and aol mail. Does Thunderbird use a unique @***? Does Thunderbird route all my different mail addresses?

Thunderbird is an open source email client. For example, if you have a gmail account (xyz@gmail.com) you probably view your email via your web browser (web mail). A client is installed on your computer and it retrieves messages from your email provider and stores them on your computer.

I have about 7 email addresses on 3 different email services. The client is configured so that it collects email from each account and likewise sends from the any of the accounts.

If I disconnect from the internet I can read email, compose new messages, etc.

78 posted on 04/06/2014 11:15:38 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: aquila48
Thanks for the ping.

update bkmk

79 posted on 04/06/2014 1:34:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: American Dream 246

You can right click any part of the page and choose inspect this and the class for CSS will be listed right in the footer


80 posted on 04/06/2014 1:36:10 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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