On 9/17/19 2:23 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 01:20:40AM -0400, james wrote
So I want a newer verision of Palemoon, but do not find any sort of
discussion on why we (gentoo) are back at 28.3.0? Is there an overlay
with more recent palemoon releases for gentoo, that I'm missing?
I don't use the overlay. I prefer to build manually. This goes to
way back when to Mozilla 0.91 (showing my age here). If you're not used
to doing big builds manually, I recommend downloading the official
tarballed executable from palemoon.org. The Mozilla build system, which
Pale Moon has inherited, is *NOT* the simple...
./configure --with various parameters
make
make install
Any info you can provide, or anyone else, would be keenly appreciated,
including a 'homebrew' updated version/settings/hacks of palemoon on
gentoo....
You can down load the latest official bzipped Pale Moon tarball from
http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/ Make sure that you match
32 or 64 bit to your system. You can install anywhere you have write
permissions. That includes /usr/local or /opt as root. Or even in your
own home directory, which means no root/sudo permissions required. But
only the local user will be able to use it.
E.g. for the 32-bit version...
mkdir $HOME/pm
cd $HOME/pm
( download the bzipped 28.7.1 tarball to this directory )
tar xf palemoon-28.7.1.linux-i686.tar.bz2
You will now have directory $HOME/pm/palemoon/ and you can point
whatever program launcher you use at "$HOME/pm/palemoon/palemoon". You
can also pass parameters, e.g. profilename. It is self-contained in the
"palemoon" directory, and does *NOT* splatter libraries all over the
place. This makes manual uninstall+upgrade easy. When 28.7.2 comes
along sometime in the future...
cd $HOME/pm
( download the bzipped 28.7.2 tarball to this directory )
killall palemoon
rm -rf palemoon
tar xf palemoon-28.7.2.linux-i686.tar.bz2
I currently use only one addon, ANM (Advanced Night Mode) from
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/advanced-night-mode/ It makes surfing
a lot easier on my old eyes. I also have multiple profiles open at the
same time. The secret is the "-new-instance" option... e.g. something
like so in your program launcher...
palemoon -new-instance -p bitchute
palemoon -new-instance -p blogspot
palemoon -new-instance -p dslr
palemoon -new-instance -p google
palemoon -new-instance -p palemoon
palemoon -new-instance -p slashdot
palemoon -new-instance -p test
palemoon -new-instance -p youtube
Thanks Dale and Walter. Building and test on a test machine as we speak.
James
