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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:52PM
Stop developing add-ons solely for firefox. People need to move away from that sinking ship, Mozilla has shown no indication of reversing course. Is Pale Moon the answer people will gather around in the end? I don't know, but it seems closest to me (google and microsoft products will not be customizable enough to attract the audience I am thinking of). It is probably in add-on dev's career interest to be non-firefox centric at this point anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @11:43PM
Palemoon would be the second successful project based on Mozilla and not in the tree in almost 20 years of open source development. (The first is K-Meleon). The truth is that Mozilla is huge beast and while it may seem easy to maintain a fork when there isn't much different from upstream and you can still apply security patches, eventually the tree will diverge enough where you can't piggyback on the Mozilla development team and have to maintain the entire browser yourself. It looks like Palemoon is at that tipping point.
There was never much separation between the UI and the rendering engine in the first place, which is why you can build SeaMonkey, Firefox, and Thunderbird from the exact same tree by changing a .mozconfig file. Palemoon should be an extension for Mozilla.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday August 06 2015, @01:04AM
Pale Moon was essentially an extension for Mozilla, but as Mozilla has continued to fuck up Firefox, it's been necessary to deviate further and further from the original source. Originally, it was mostly just a set of optimizations for Firefox that couldn't be called Firefox because of the trademark policy.
But, now, I use Pale Moon as much because of the UI as I do for the extra performance. I'm not looking forward to what happens when electrolysis graduates from nightlies and is available in the mainstream release. I'm not sure how Pale Moon is going to be able to integrate that without starting a lot of their work over.