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Pale Moon, an alternative browser that forked from Firefox around the time that Firefox went to the "Australis" interface and is a favorite of many Soylentils, has released version 25.6.0 as of today. So what's new in Pale Moon? Let's check the changelog (I'll abbreviate to give you a quick runthrough):
- Canvas anti-fingerprinting option: Pale Moon now includes the option to make canvas fingerprinting much more difficult.
- Added a feature to allow icon fonts to be used even when users disallow the use of document-specified fonts (no more dreaded "boxes" with hex codes).
- Added a feature to prevent screen savers from kicking in when playing full-screen HTML5 video. (Windows only for now)
- The "autocomplete=off" parameter for signon forms is now completely ignored by default, to keep the user in control of their browser's behavior
- Added the option to use Chrome://../skin/ overrides, in effect allowing the use of "Icon themes"
- Added a count for the number of matches in the find bar
Plus many others that seems less significant to me (but click through for the full list if you'd like to make your own decisions about what's "significant").
There's also a number of security fixes, which I won't quote here but can be found after the list of non-security-related changes.
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Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by number6 on Monday July 27 2015, @09:27PM
I like dragging URL's from the browser to my desktop.
This is an essential part of my workflow and the number one reason I never gave up on Firefox (and Pale Moon).
Conversely, this is the reason I never could fall in love with Opera as my everyday browser; it never allowed drag-drop of URL's to the desktop.
I have this annoying issue with URL's dragged to the desktop from Pale Moon
like this example:
Viewing this webpage with Pale Moon 20.3 (portable edition), I drag the address bar icon to my desktop, and I get this URL file:
looking at its contents with a text editor, I see this:
The URL on my desktop does not display the default icon for URL filetypes on my system; I just get the blank or unknown filetype icon.
If I use Firefox and conduct the same drag-drop operation as above, the contents look like this (which is correct and what I want and renders the default URL system icon):
The way Firefox outputs dragged URL's is the way I want URL's formatted.
Does anybody here know how I can hack or configure Pale Moon to do this? ....I've been looking for an answer to this issue for a long time and it's driving me crazy!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:19AM
Does this file exist: "IconFile=C:\PortableApps\Pale Moon\User\Palemoon\Profiles\Default\shortcutCache\hwcg2bDSYtfi8kcUJhOizA==.ico" ?
(Score: 2) by number6 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:23AM
Yes the file is created at that location at the moment the URL file is created at the desktop (looking at the 'Date Created' attribute).
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:47AM
Funny. Never in a million years would I have even thought to try dragging a URL to the desktop (not to mention that my browser window fills the screen, leaving nowhere to drag it to).
You say Opera doesn't have it, but when I just tried it in Opera 9 it did in fact create a shortcut on the desktop. Perhaps it's yet another of the features they broke in subsequent versions.
(Score: 2) by number6 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:00AM
I use two side-by-side monitors, left is the primary and is wide screen 1920x1080, right is 1600x1200.
The browser displays on the left monitor and fills the screen dimensions EXCEPT its left margin is narrowed to the right by 150pixels leaving a strip of desktop exposed at all times.
The right monitor is my drag-drop desktop area.
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Just to confirm your results, I will try again creating a dragged desktop URL with Opera v9.62 on my system (Windows XP)......
- Run Opera 9.62, build 10467, Win32, (c) 2008
- Load page: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/07/27/1410258
- Drag URL to blank desktop space at right-monitor and let go of mouse....the URL has vanished !!
...Upon further investigation I see that the URL WAS CREATED but at monitor one and auto-arranged as the last icon !!
So Opera v9 actually does create drag-dropped URL's to the desktop BUT completely ignores mouse tracking control !!
I can't remember another program on my system which chooses to completely ignore mouse tracking control........OPERA IS A FUCKING WIERD ECLECTIC PROGRAM !!
Anyhow, you are right, Opera v9 does allow URL drag-drop to desktop.
You know, all these years of using it I never noticed this phenomenon !!