MyPal browser is dead - Licensing spergfest kills browser for Windows XP

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I used Pale Moon as my main browser for a stretch of a couple of years. Since early 2020, compatibility with sites has just become more and more broken and I stopped using it.

I don't care if furries made it, I was a decent browser that didn't spy on me, and it was nice to have an option besides Firefox and the slew Chromium based browsers. Too bad it's gone to shit.
 
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Never Scored said:
I used Pale Moon as my main browser for a stretch of a couple of years. Since early 2020, compatibility with sites has just become more and more broken and I stopped using it.

I don't care if furries made it, I was a decent browser that didn't spy on me, and it was nice to have an option besides Firefox and the slew Chromium based browsers. Too bad it's gone to shit.
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Exactly, but it was just unsuable at the end. When it actually worked with a site, the performance was also very poor. They also not rarely went out of their way to alienate their users and plugin makers and often had the bullheaded attitude that website makers have to fix their websites to work with their gimped browser, as places like youtube would give a shit. Firefox was very shit for a while and pale moon was actually genuinely better, but Firefox is a lot more bearable now and in case people are not aware, you can configure Firefox now to actually use GPU video decoding under X11. And it only took like, what, almost ten years?

Also if people hope that Toby guy will show up here, I don't think he will. From all I saw of him he's of a classical bully mindset. He'll just get into slapfights with people in places where the moderation is on his side or he can ban people outright himself to get "the last word". He knows he won't have that here. I wouldn't be surprised if he was aware of this thread though, dude seemed to google himself obsessively. Kinda surprised he isn't a troon tbh
 
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Kosher Dill said:
I'm starting my own fork of Pale Moon, it's called Pale Moon.
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More like Pale Joshua Moon, am I rite guise??

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Exactly, but it was just unsuable at the end. When it actually worked with a site, the performance was also very poor. They also not rarely went out of their way to alienate their users and plugin makers and often had the bullheaded attitude that website makers have to fix their websites to work with their gimped browser, as places like youtube would give a shit. Firefox was very shit for a while and pale moon was actually genuinely better, but Firefox is a lot more bearable now and in case people are not aware, you can configure Firefox now to actually use GPU video decoding under X11. And it only took like, what, almost ten years?
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I agree. Like I said above, OG Pale Moon was a slow and unstable experience. The browser would hang up quite a lot, almost prone to crashing. And this was on a rather beefy computer, which ran Firefox and Chrome just fine.
 
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Sunflower Samurai said:
After using Palemoon because it "just worked" for a while i actually decided to switch to a build of ungoogled chromium and noticed that youtube streams worked better (no shit) and even KF loaded faster kek
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I bet stickdeath.com doesn't work as well though
 
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Mypal is dead. Long live the SneedCoon!

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Wally said:
RMS is like this as well. He has a hatred of forking: https://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html
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He provoked the forks himself due to being a giant autist, but he was closer to right on the legal issues - he and the FSF correctly realized that having unknown or renegade authors in GPLv2 code could cause legal wonkiness. Of course he was more concerned about good-faith claims being denied than abusive claims being granted, but I give him credit for recognizing a weak point in the system.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
I'm starting my own fork of Pale Moon, it's called Pale Moon.
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You could do this and Moonchild Productions couldn't stop you. For all their whining about "muh MPL" they haven't even registered "Pale Moon" with the USPTO. Common Law Trademarks only apply to the geographic area of the company. Even then, Moonchild Productions trying to get anyone on Trademark Infringement is laughable because, like defamation, you have to show that you were hurt financially by the infringement and seeing he can't afford a monitor without e-begging, that's unlikely. I highly doubt that Moonchild Productions is even a registered business.
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The company Tobin claims to be CEO and Owner of, Binary Outcast, does not exist on paper. I am not sure if IN lists Sole Proprietorships on their SOS Business Search, but I think it's likely.
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Because he isn't registered with the state, his website's MPL's usage of BINARY OUTCAST as if it was a DBA is really funny:
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Who's Binary Outcast? I only know Matt A. Tobin :^)
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If I were Moonchild Productions I would immediately incorporate to protect from schism. ALL software projects made by autistic people end in some sort of falling out or schism and an LLC owning the Pale Moon software and brand would protect them against this happening and give the developers legal standing to go after people they see as violating "muh MPL" and "muh trademarks."
 
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