Jody Thornton

I will check the servicing stack update out. I hope it gives a good description of it, so I know what I'm putting on my system.

Ahoy greenhillmaniac! If I'm not mistaken, today is that rather special Tuesday, so time to awaken this thread from just over a month of slumber. I'll be on it later today.

Not exactly. To push further, Moonchild figured it would be best to use a new base version of Firefox to create Pale Moon from. I think v25 and v26 were originally adapted from Firefox v29 (the last pre-Australis version). But I guess he was running in to roadblocks adding codec support and security fixes to that older code. So I think the current 27x build is based on Firefox 45x. Then he reworked the older non-Australis interface and other customizations into it. It's no different than how K-Meleon releases a new build based on a newer Gecko, right? And the deloper tools were removed because support is gone for those types of JetPack extensions now. I have to say, v27 runs a lot smoother so overall it's a better experience. But Moonchild does seem to think that Google and the likes of such should bend over backward to not using agent sniffing as a compatibility measure. Moonchild refuses to realize that he is a small player, and thus no Google or other corporate giant will care to cater to small players when they are pushing their own browser.

So wait! Is Windows XP x64 Support still available with v50x? It almost sounds as if support disapeared after v46x. https://www.waterfoxproject.org/blog/waterfox-50.0-release-download

Now here's something I think has yet to surface that could prove interesting. As it stands, Waterfox is the only xFox build that supports Windows XP x64 Edition. Will that also shift to the ESR branch, or cease completely?

Now to be fair, that's because there are more installations of Windows NT 6x, right? Obscurity doesn't make XP more secure in it's own right.

Well it appears that Moonchild decided to release v27.0.2. And if you look the release notes linked below, I think you (that's you NoelC ...lol) will have a little giggle. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14018

Close. There is a pref you can add for each site in about:config. So say I set my rendering engine to Goanna (the default in Pale Moon), I would add a pref for Google, MSFN and others to render as Firefox. A bit of a nuisance.

I've got to try this when I get home too.

Is this issue still happening? Noel was mentioning in an XP/Firefox thread that Windows Update runs in a single core and throttles CPU throughput ... And the updates NEVER come.

Well except this one

Yep! Just run it

What is outlined there sounds more than fair to me, no?

Your welcome Dave. It was especially confusing because on the first moth of this new format (October 2016) I was able to get the update on a web page actually devoted to it, then in November it was only available via the Catalog.

10-4. I won't be too hasty.

I download the Security Only update which is not a month to month rollup. Only the security updates for that month are wrapped up in one file. It is not served to the user through Windows Update. You have to go get it from the Microsoft Update Catalog.

But then why the announcement? It was already known than v27 was a no show. Unless they're just getting users to prepare for v27, but that's not how it sounded.

I was meaning to go through the list of scheduled tasks on my Windows 8 system, and just never got around to it. I'll look at that this evening.

It appears that the plugin though follows Firefox's new Gecko plugin structure, and is not a XUL plugin, so it's not compatible with Pale Moon. So I can accept that. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=11220 Still, they should have left Pale Moon supporting XP for the remainder of v26x's life. Stopping at 27, perfectly acceptable. I'm surprised no one on Pale Moon's forum flipped out.

OK then when I'm using the XP computer at work, and Twitter displays an embedded video, it says that video cannot be played on this browser. I was told that this was due to an H.264 /HTML5 issue with XP

I just install the security only updates. So far, it's worked well.

Well wait dencorso. I thought it was an OS limitation for HTML5 video, because Twitter videos don't work on Firefox within XP either. Am I missing something? I didn't think that limitation was Pale Moon specific.

As of version 26.5, it's all over. I agree that they should have allowed support to continue straight through to the rest of the v26x series. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13702

Wow I never saw that Flash update in the list. Hmmmmmm. Maybe I'm too preoccupied. Nonetheless thanks Greenhillmaniac.

So it installed with aplomb. Did any one else source updates that I might've missed?