After a few months of development, the Pale Moon browser has released its latest iteration. Along with security features, the key release for this version seems to be centered around expanding the browser's media support.
Offtopic, but somehow relevant: they also published the results of their survey in March. The feedback says a lot about the browser's user base, and highlights the direction the team will take in the future.
[What browser(s) do you use? Do you use a separate browser for certain sites? Same browser for everything you access online? What browser differences lead you to use one browser over another? -Ed.]
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday July 15 2017, @07:22AM (1 child)
Actually it does, along with Firefox, there's still some code from Netscape in NSPR and NSS, both of which are very conservative about excepting patches, other code such as the widgets where the skeleton is left over from Netscape but most of the code has been updated and in the case of SeaMonkey,or its source name, suite, the mailnews and the suite itself are direct descendants of Netscape, perhaps most of the code has been changed, but some still dates from the initial CVS import.
Understand that SeaMonkey shares most of its code with Firefox and being a volunteer project, it's all they can do to keep up with the Firefox build changes. When Firefox moves away from XUL, XPCOM etc, SeaMonkey will probably die, or at least no longer be worth using for the same reasons as Firefox.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday July 15 2017, @08:38AM
That may well be. I based my statement on information from here [wikipedia.org]:
nss and nspr are essential modules, but the bulk of seamonkey code bears no resemblance to any production Netscape code.
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