Firefox fork 'Pale Moon' releases v28, first major version since 2016

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As I always do when someone posts a Pale Moon link, I'm going to warn anyone reading this not to use Pale Moon. Details below.

https://www.howtogeek.com/335712/update-why-you-shouldnt-use...

tl;dr Maintaining the security of a browser is a massive job that even a 1000+ developers struggle with. Pale Moon is maintained by one person and does not benefit from hundreds of Firefox's security fixes (because it's a fork).

I highly suggest you read through the release notes, and the forum, to get a better understanding of the security of palemoon. Palemoon is updated regularly, including security updates, patches and DiD(Defense in depth) fixes. These are fixes that identify potential problems, and fix them before an exploit has been found.

While Palemoon was forked from firefox, the current codebase isn't stagnant, it is updated quite frequently.

There just isn't enough time in a day for a small group of people to keep a browser secure. It's a massive undertaking.

OpenBSD is a small group of devs vs. Microsoft, or Linux, yet it is arguably one of those most secure operating systems.

For some people the utility of using XUL may outweight Firefox's most recent security features.

For general-purpose browsing, such as viewing email, using social sites, or banking, that's short-sighted, risky behavior.

If someone misses some old dev app, like Selenium IDE, then I can understand that choice. But that'll be a tiny niche.

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