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.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:44PM
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)
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday August 08 2015, @01:05AM
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.