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I got fed up with Firefox after the "Rapid Release" program started. It seemed they were too busy making changes for the sake of change so switched to Pale Moon. But this seems just a bit over the top to me.

I do use Microsoft Edge too but there are certain add-ons that I depend on that work in Pale Moon.

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Ya, FF bothers me too but mostly just due my 'liking the feel' of IE more than FF. I'm not so sure that FF starting to put up sponsored content on a new tab being opened bothers me or not. Shoot, I have a new tab in IE set to do the same... I guess it all depends on the sponsored content put up.

I DO use FF for a lot of my streaming media as I run dual screens and IE has streaming issues if I have some older games on another monitor.

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via a friend at another forum:

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Take a walk through the "Security Garden" -- Where Everything is Coming up Roses!

Remember - A day without laughter is a day wasted.
May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart.

I used Firefox for awhile, then switched to Chrome but now just use Edge as it does everything I want. I do get emails from Pocket showing different articles to read but so far I just give them a quick look, I've never yet told it to save to Pocket.

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Joan Archer
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@ Corrine (or anyone) - When you provide a quote as you did twice above, how do you get it 'boxed in' with the word Quote appearing in the blue banner?

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BB
http://barrypatch.net

At the bottom of a post message on the right hand side are the buttons, Edit, Quote and there is a Delete button but that one may only show is you're a Moderator. Just click on the Quote button.

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Joan Archer
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Thanks Joan, I did not know that. I often use the Quote button when I want to quote and respond to a previous post, like I just did here for your post. I just never used it to then type in a quote from someplace else. It's like I just told Steve....I learn something new every day, lol.

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When doing a quote from somewhere else go to the full editor and select the 'Quote' function and past the text between the open and close commands.

The result would be as follows.


You can also add a name for where the quote originated as follows.

The result would be the following.

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Thanks, Jay. That's just something I had never done, so I was not familiar with the process. I have pasted quoted text before, and I always tried to give reference to its source.....but I never knew to use the actual Quote button for something like that.

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Thank you for reminding me to have another look at Pale Moon, I'd previously looked at their website some months ago after someone else here mentioned it (i forget who) and i liked what i saw but i never did get around to downloading and installing the browser.

I've done that tonight and so far I'm loving what i see... early days but it feels like what FF and IE11 ought to have been aiming for all along (at least on Win7).

FF and IE11 have in their own ways been driving me nuts for seemingly simple things that neither of them could or would cancel out to make their product more attractive over the other...
FF appear to have dropped default support for a Status Bar, presumably it's now an 'add-on'?, whereas it used to be a drag and drop from the customise options?
IE11 and that damned needless search box on the address bar, or tabs at the end of the address bar if the search box is removed.

IE11 is anything but seemless these days on Win7, so many websites that i regularly use have issues with rendering or not correctly loading that it's hard to believe IE11 IS actually still a supported browser on a still supported Microsoft OS.

Corrine, I'm with you 100% that Mozilla seem to only be making changes for changes sake with FF.

Anyways, i'll stop ranting and thank you again, still trying to customise the look and feel of Pale Moon but even after 20 minutes of fumbling and reading what i have now is head and shoulders above both IE11 and FF and from what I've read so far everything i want and need should be achievable
[I have a Status Bar, and have at least for the time being reduced the annoying Search box to a minimum until i work out how to remove it altogether, all indications appear to point to this is possible (i just need to work out how lol.)]

To close, i like my browser simple with as much surface area visible as possible while retaining functionality and information about what's happening in the background, so far this is a very good start.

Oh dear, Amazon Prime Video won't play on Pale Moon, it apparently requires a later version of Firefox to enable playback, i had such hope but this is a deal breaker

I'll often just type the appropriate BBCode, especially if I'm creating a long topic/reply with instructions for someone I'm helping. I also have an extension I've used for years, BBCodeXtra – Add-ons for Firefox which works on Pale Moon but not the current version of Firefox.


Just right-click in an open space on the Toolbar and select Customize. Then drag the search box into the "Customize Toolbar" box that pops up when customizing.


You're right about Pale Moon and Amazon Prime Video. Since I run Insider Builds on my old desktop, I have been using Microsoft Edge for Prime Videos and didn't even have Silverlight installed. After installing it, even disabling hardware acceleration didn't allow Silverlight to work on Pale Moon, which is seen as Firefox 27.9 and Prime Video requires Firefox Version 53 or higher. It won't even on Firefox ESR until Version 60 of ESR is released.

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Take a walk through the "Security Garden" -- Where Everything is Coming up Roses!

Remember - A day without laughter is a day wasted.
May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart.

Such a shame that something as simple as one website (in my case) should let this browser down so badly, i hadn't researched this issue until tonight but from what i can see this has been a long running issue with Amazon Prime on Pale Moon.. all the more strange is that other HTML5 and/or Silverlight based sites appear not to have the same issue?

Anyways, as a Win 7 user locked out of Edge by Microsoft i hope that one day Pale Moon get their act together and support whatever means are required for Amazon Prime Video playback within Win 7... i really like what i see otherwise and it would be a real shame if they don't/can't.

As an aside I'm struggling to work out why an 'ESR' (Extended Support Release?) version "60" should make a difference given that i just updated Firefox today to version 60.0?

Regarding Firefox ESR, although ESR version 60 is available, version 52 was just updated to 52.8 on Wednesday and still supports legacy Add-Ons. ESR version 60 doesn't support the legacy Add-ons. According to the Firefox Release Calendar, only ESR 60 will be supported as of the September release date. However, as Firefox continues to move o to version s 61, 62, etc. ESR will stay at version 60.

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Take a walk through the "Security Garden" -- Where Everything is Coming up Roses!

Remember - A day without laughter is a day wasted.
May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart.