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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the at-least-there-are-alternatives dept.

Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports

Users of the Pale Moon web browser who try to install the popular adblocking extension Adblock Plus won't be able to do so anymore as it was added to the blocklist by the Pale Moon team.

Pale Moon users who have it installed may have noticed that it is no longer enabled either.

[...] The Pale Moon forum is usually a good place to start--reveals that the team decided to add Adblock Plus to the blocklist because of incompatibilities with Pale Moon.

I've put it in the blocklist because it has started giving severe usability issues (see the threads with "large bar with red text at the bottom of the browser" etc.). ABP should not be used on any v25+ version of Pale Moon because it's not compatible.

The compatibility issues seem to be mostly interface related when Adblock Plus is running in Pale Moon.

Moonchild, the lead developer of Pale Moon suggests to use an alternative such as uBlock, uBlock Origin, or Adblock Latitude instead. The latter is a fork of Adblock Plus that is developed and maintained specifically for Pale Moon.

[...] The most recent Adblock Plus update is also incompatible with Firefox versions prior to 29 due to the extension's support of "standard-conformant JavaScript generators syntax". This means that pre-Firefox 29 users won't be able to use Adblock Plus as well.

In the comments, Jojo says

I never noticed any problem with ABP

and Sven replies

That is exactly the problem. ABP works to a large extent but has caused a bunch of smaller and larger issues over the last couple of weeks or even month (in fact it was never compatible with Pale Moon 25). Many people didn't notice that it was related to ABP until they came to the forum and were told to switch [off of] ABP.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:44PM (#218551)

    https://addons.palemoon.org/resources/incompatible/ [palemoon.org]

    List of add-ons with known compatibility issues (in no particular order)

    Last updated: 2015-06-18

    REPORTED

            Eraser
            Omnibar
            Disconnect Search
            EPUBReader
            IDM CC (Internet Download Manager)
            Simple Clocks
            Simple Timer
            infoRSS
            Facebook Phishing Protector
            Flash Killer
            Auto-Sort Bookmarks
            RefControl
            Fastest Search
            Shorten URL (Bit.ly)
            Simple Currency Converter
            Who Stole My Pictures
            Roboform
            Pushbullet
            BugMeNot
            Secret Agent
            Find In Numbers
            Redirect Cleaner
            AutoPager
            YesScript
            PrefBar
            Blacken
            ToggleDocumentColors
            Yet Another Remove It Permanently
            Document Font Toggle
            HttpFox
            Copy goo.gl URL
            ShowIP
            Pure URL
            BarTab Heavy
            Lucifox
            Multiple Tab Handler
            OmniSidebar
            F.B. (Fluff Busting) Purity
            cliget
            Add to Search Bar
            Date Picker
            Snap Links Plus
            DuckDuckGo Plus
            PasswordMaker
            TabMixPlus
            FireFTP
            Unplug
            Extension Options Menu
            Google Privacy
            iMacros for Firefox
            Pentadactyl
            Feedly Notifier
            Random Agent Spoofer
            Image Toolbar
            Stay-Open Menu
            Tree Style Tab
            Thumbnail Zoom Plus
            Enhanced Steam
            Developer Contacted
            fx-statistics

    FIXED

            Dom Inspector
            Self-Destructing Cookies
            Personas Rotator
            Privacy Badger
            Bamboo Feed Reader
            Fastest Search
            FoxyProxy (All SKUs)
            NewsFox
            CookieKeeper
            Context Search X
            Fire IE
            Bookmark Favicon Changer
            Stylish

    WORKAROUNDS

            External Application Buttons
            (use version 0.11)
            Add Bookmark Here ²
            (use version 23.0.20140225)
            Informational Tab
            (use version 0.4.2013053001)
            Firebug
            (use version 1.12.8.1)
            TweetRight
            (use version 0.43.1)
            DownThemAll!
            (use version 2.0.18)
            LiveClick
            (use older version)
            HTitle Hide title bar
            (use Hide Caption Titlebar Plus version 2.3)

    PSEUDO-STATIC'D

            ForecastFox
            ChatZilla
            FoxClocks
            ScreenGrab (fe)
            Quick Translator
            Pentadactyl

    FORKED

            Adblock Plus
            (as Adblock Latitude)
            FindBar Tweak
            (as FinderbarTweak)
            Change Referer Button
            HTTPS Everywhere
            (as Encrypted Web)

    WONTFIX

            Adblock Edge
            (Not needed because of ABL)
            Classic Theme Restorer
            (There is no Australis to change)
            Add-on Update Checker
            (We have this functionality built in, so does Firefox)
            Toggle Javascript
            (Use about:config pref or toggle with Pale Moon Commander)
            Nightly Tester Tools
            (We are not Firefox and we do not offer "Nightlies")
            Space Next
            (We have this functionality built in)
            Flash Video Downloader
            S3 Download Manager
            Fasterfox Lite
            (This is considered harmful to Pale Moon)
            DVD Video Soft YouTube Downloader
            Nimbus Screen Capture
            Search by Image for Google
            Mouse Gestures Redox
            (Doesn't exist anymore)
            Blender
            Lightbeam
            (Mozilla Service Experiments are not supported on Pale Moon)
            UnPlug
            gTranslate
            (Use Pseudo-Static'd Quick Translate)
            Strict Pop-up Blocker
            (Australis Only add-on - Never supported Pale Moon)
            Youtube Unblocker
            Compact Menu 2
            (Virtually identical to Tiny menu)
            Text2Link
            (Duplicates built in functionality - Highlight any link -> Right Click -> Open Link)
            Bazzacuda Image Saver Plus
            Baixou Agora
            (Was never compatible with Pale Moon)

     

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   +4  
       Informative=4, Total=4
    Extra 'Informative' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   4  
  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday August 08 2015, @01:05AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Saturday August 08 2015, @01:05AM (#219746) Homepage

    Prefbar? Crap. Prefbar and NoScript are the only two add-ons I use, but they're both MUST-HAVEs.

    --
    And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.