Pale Moon updater stopped working (Solved)

[LeithR]

I have noticed that PM is not updating as frequently as it used to. I have PM updater v0.2.2 in my Xenial64 my machine, it has PM V27.6.4 as the browser. When I try using the updater to go to a newer version I get a message saying that the latest version number could not be retrieved check your network connection and try again. My network connection is working fine. Any suggestions as to next step please?

[bigpup]

Palemoon stopped using that updater program and now uses an internal updater, built into Palemoon.

This started with V28 of Palemoon.

For Xenialpup
Run Quickpet->Info->Xenialpup updates
This will update the Palemoon update program to do a one time update of Palemoon to a version 28.
That palemoon will now have the update built into it.
After doing the update to version 28.
In Palemoon->Help_check for updates will find and offer to install updates.
May have to run this internal update, several times, to get to the latest version 29.1.1

[LeithR]

Many thanks bigpup.

[mikeslr]

Mike Walsh reported that palemoon has dropped support for 'old-Addons' on a 32-bit palemoon thread, viewtopic.php?p=24550#p24550
If you use them at the minimum configure your Palemoon to NOT update automatically. Is something like Wizard's disable pet for firefox necessary? viewtopic.php?p=23533#p23533

Is it time for Devs to consider dropping palemoon as the built-in web-browser? Palemoon has been nice and has worked well. It's been my 'go-to' web-browser for most activities. But primarily that's been because it came with the Puppy and received a Task-bar launcher during my initial setup.
Please Move On.

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When I get around to fleshing-out 'mozilla-based' web-browsers to conform to my needs, Palemoon isn't among them. I've hardened firefox-esr for privacy and security. And for general utility I've stuck with 32-bit Seamonkeys and added Waterfox-classic. Waterfox only comes as a 64-bit. But the Classic version can use (some) of the old firefox addons. As can Seamonkey, at least thru iteration 2.46 (maybe 2.48) of which Mike Walsh has provided portables, and I've provided instructions for 'portable-izing' any old version you can download from Seamonkey's website. And as well as including both a mail-handler and an html editor, Seamonkey as a web-browser is slightly less Ram-demanding than Palemoon.

[xenial]

The extension problem only really came about when justoff the main maintainer of pale moon add ons decided to jump ship because of the hostility on the pale moon forum which is normal for there anyway.