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In light of the recent activities of Dice Holdings trying to monetize the website it purchased in September 2012, Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
The admin of the popular NotePad++ text editor announced [June 15] that the project would leave SourceForge
[...] The project will use Github as the development hub for Notepad++ exclusively.
[...] tmux, nmap, [and] VLC for instance [are also trying] to get Sourceforge to remove [their] projects from the site
In the comments, Oxa June notes that Pale Moon is looking to move away.
In addition, Softpedia notes that WINE is migrating away.
Related: SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday June 17 2015, @08:45PM
What are the alternatives to Firefox these days? I haven't been keeping up. And, no, google chrome is not an answer.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jummama on Wednesday June 17 2015, @09:00PM
I've been using Pale Moon https://www.palemoon.org/ [palemoon.org], a fork of Firefox without the Australis garbage. Works great for me!
(Score: 2, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 17 2015, @10:38PM
I'd like to be rah-rah about this but the Pale Moon install fatally terminated on both my radically different Windoze boxes.
(Score: 1) by darnkitten on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:57PM
That's too bad--I've had no problems with install (except when the main branch stopped supporting xp), and I have it running on 10, no, 11 Win setups, from xp(x86) to win7(x64). Are you using the installer, or the stand-alone file? ...and have you tried the portable version?
OTOH, I've never been able to get the Linux build to function, so I keep modifying Firefox to act like Pale Moon on my Linux boxes...and Mozilla keeps reverting my changes every other "upgrade."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:02PM
I wish I could, but there's no OSX build and I'm tired of beta testing.
(Score: 2, Informative) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:38AM
What are the alternatives to Firefox these days? I haven't been keeping up. And, no, google chrome is not an answer.
Seamonkey [seamonkey-project.org] does a pretty good job if you don't mind using a suite instead of a simple browser.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:47PM
IMHO the best of the alternatives are, in no particular order is Pale Moon [palemoon.org] (personally use, great browser based on FF without the BS) Comodo Chromodo [cnet.com] (also use, based on Chromium with some nice extra security features) Comodo IceDragon [comodo.com] (give this one to customers who want simple and hate change as their UI is pretty static and its rock solid) Comodo Dragon [comodo.com] (like IceDragon this is for those that hate change as they update the engine while keeping the UI static) Waterfox [waterfoxproject.org] (64bit only Gecko based focused on speed) and for those that need the lightest browser around? That would be Kmeleon [sourceforge.net] which sadly is only hosted on SF so be careful.
Any of those will give you a good browsing experience, my personal browsers are Chromodo (with ABP and Privacy Badger installed) with Pale Moon (with ABP) but any of the above should give you a solid dependable browser, it is all personal preference now really. If you strictly want Gecko over Webkit based Pale Moon, Waterfox, and IceDragon are all really solid, I simply prefer the UI of PM over the others but try 'em all and see what fits YOU the best. This is one thing kids today take for granted, I remember when it was nothing but shitty IE, buggy Netscape, or ad laden and quirky as hell Opera....we have its soooo much better now!
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.