Pale Moon vs FX

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Virgorising

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Wait!!!!! I just tried again, and the amazing LavaFox V2 red enhancement DOES, in fact, install in Pale Moon!!!!!!!!!!!!:biggrin:
 

Virgorising

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linky linky please! ():)


Am so happy someone else is knocked out by this enhancement ! Pls scroll back/up in this thread to post number 50.

Go to yr add ons>Themes in yr Pale moon, scroll down on the right to "See all complete themes".....hit the Lavafox on the top of the list and follow the dots. U will need this style installer thingy.....but, it's no brainer!

Not sure if you can get this for the other Lavafox colors, but I only like the red.:cool:
 
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Virgorising

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OK, heads up: I run Spyware Blaster. I guess, cause I always have, and it's free. Well, my version. I just opened it to see if new updates were available, and saw it had picked up I now have Pale Moon, and it was not protected. So, I fixed that. Anyone using Spyware Blaster who also has PM, should check.

My main protection app is Norton IS, and it is excellent. Also have MBAM and Superantispy, free ones. But no harm in keeping Spywareblaster.
 

bononos

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Ever since I've used Pale Moon, I fell in love with it! Gives you the speed of Chrome, but with the lovely interface and add-ons of Firefox minus the quircks
d!tto man :whiste:
And about his comment, Pale Moon's speed is far more superior to Firefox, with Pale Moon, pages start loading instantly as if it were Chrome, but with Firefox there is a slight lag before the page starts to load

FF isn't slow for some time now and it has surpassed Chrome in real world browsing tests (as opposed to synthetic benchmarks).
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Inte...er-than-Chrome-20-and-Firefox-13-293242.shtml
http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/...-2012-state-of-the-union/browser-performance/

Lifehacker did a number of tests from way back and FF was usually faster at tab loading.
http://lifehacker.com/tag/browser-speed-tests

The recent THW testing shows that FF21 is faster.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-opera-next,3534-4.html

Do you have some testpages that you use to compare browsers?
 

Berryracer

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not benchmarks bro, but when loading diff. webpages, Pale Moon is snappy as heck while Firefox has a slight 1 to 2 second lag before it starts loading a webpage
 

bbhaag

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I like Chrome. Best browser for Windows IMO. In a Linux environment I like FF. Pale Moon is ok. It scrolls kinda weird on my machines.
 

Berryracer

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I like Chrome. Best browser for Windows IMO. In a Linux environment I like FF. Pale Moon is ok. It scrolls kinda weird on my machines.

Disable smooth scrolling and try.

Chrome sucks, its interface sucks, its Xmarks addon is the worst version ever, messes up the fav icons always and you have to manually sync always it won't do it automatically

Chrome also doesn't support WYSIWYG on forums so if you copy / paste some post or article, you get plain text with no formatting, pics, or hyperlinks, it's a piece of crap basically but to each his own
 

bononos

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not benchmarks bro, but when loading diff. webpages, Pale Moon is snappy as heck while Firefox has a slight 1 to 2 second lag before it starts loading a webpage

I don't get that lag when using FF and in normal usage the difference is not significant for me.
I tested both FF24(fixed the disk/memory cache setting as PM did) and PM24.02 x86 with minimal extensions and found both were more or less the same and gave the same problems (short hangs) in my own stress testing with Palemoon possibly behaving a little better.

If you really want an optimally compiled FF, you might want to look into Cyberfox.