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I've been using version 31 for a while but some websites load much slower than previous versions of this browser (it seems it wants to deal with more crap running in the background). Don't know if you have experienced the same but I'm back using version 29.x which just works better for me. Prior to that I used version 28.14 (which was still an official release then) for a long time and that version was really excellent. Newer is definitely not always better.

amethyst wrote: ↑Mon Nov 14, 2022 1:13 pm

Newer is definitely not always better.

I absolutely agree with you

I've noticed.

An old browser won't be compatible with a newer site, but a newer browser might be slower with technical bloat.

Palemoon's team imploded around 30?

It has relative version opacity & compatibility questions. We're always getting a newer browser than its Firefox user agent, so Palemoon is self-referential.

For all this my current best version is mid-29s, though I'm always using newer or older. I've yet to try the very latest.

On the one machine I have that has somewhat limited resources I gave up with Palemoon a while ago. It was continually stuttering, jumping and sometimes freezing altogether. I now use Seamonkey on that machine, which so far has been much better. On my more powerful machines I just use Firefox.

Despite that resources are not an issue for me, I still like Pale Moon. For general sprightliness, it's hard to beat on many sites.

Even on the "new-to-me" Dell Latitude lappie - Core2Duo & 4GB DDR2 - I can run the newest version without any hassle.....but v29.4.1 just seems faster, somehow!

'Zilla-based browsers do have their advantages at times, though I've never been all that keen on Firefox. I switched to it from Internet Exploder back in the mid-2000s because literally anything was preferable to MyCrudSoft's sorry excuse for a browser. Mozilla did me a big favour, though, by developing horrendous memory-leakage and crashing issues around 2007.....just in time for me to sign-up to the then brand-new Chrome 'beta' testing programme in late Summer of that year.

I've been kinda "hooked" ever since, despite that Chrome itself went through a long spell of dreadful bloat and excessive RAM usage.....much of which has been mitigated in recent years with the 'LazyLoading' feature (doesn't load all of a web-page, only the bits you're approaching at any given time). It's made a big difference.

My usual 'go-to' varies between SlimJet & Pale Moon for 32-bit Puppies, and Brave & Opera on 64-bit. Much of the time in my 'daily-driver' (jrb's 'lite' spin on Barry's old Quirky64 April 7.0.1), I just suspend overnight, and pretty much leave Opera up-and-running all the time (runs in a Fossapup64 chroot). With their 'workspace' feature, which lets you group tabs by similarity, it's the perfect set-up for me.

Mike.