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Updates 9/15/20 - MyPal, and dissension with PaleMoon
MyPal has been updated to version 28.13.0 ; however, the internal updater does NOT seem to be finding this update. You may manually download/install it from https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal/releases
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The cited download page for MyPal 28.13.0 contains the following "announcement":
PAY Attention original palemoon developers declared that we abuse their sites they even tried block them from mypal but failed, and it will be likely an excuse when they begin abuse us. So no excuse ещ to me i removed all links to their sites from mypal, the addons page synch and other stuff regarding palemoon will not work, do not complain and create issue about this. You can open their sites manually but i do not suggest who knows what they invent next time. If you really want to open their site use another browser. Anyway i can build new versions while they stay opensource and eventually we set up our own alternative sites.
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WOW! Looks like there's bad blood between MyPal and PaleMoon. Searching, I located the following post at the PaleMoon forum:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=25084&hilit=mypal&start=20#p198040
(That thread continues on for another two pages).
I'm really not sure what to make of all this
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September 15th, 2020 20:00
I have never tried MyPal, and have been happy with PaleMoon for a few years.
I gather that they have fallen out over some aspect of supporting old/unsupported operating systems (XP, Vista) which really should not be on the table these days.
I intend to continue to use Pale Moon, until it gives me any grief.
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September 16th, 2020 03:00
The reason why I looked for, found, and use MyPal is precisely because it's one of the few (only?) currently-maintained browsers that still supports XP --- which is where I relish its use:
Mypal is a current and maintained Windows XP web browser. Mypal is based on Moonchild Productions’ Pale Moon code, which itself was forked from Mozilla’s FireFox code several years ago, but is also maintained and kept current.
The goal of Mypal is to provide a current, secure, and reliable web browser for Windows XP. Mypal operates identically to Pale Moon with some minor exceptions. Introduced new portable system and certain settings, including unused legacy Mozilla code, have been removed.
The attacks, on both sides, aren't the easiest matters to follow. What I think the objection is, is that MyPal users typically download their add-ons from the PaleMoon add-ons server, "hogging" bandwidth there... PaleMoon wants them to have their own, independent server [I doubt there are that many MyPal users, so what I just stated may not be the actual reason.]
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I had been under the impression that MyPal was an authorized/sanctioned "fork" of PaleMoon. If it [ever] was, that's clearly no longer the case. So I'm debating whether I should continue to mention MyPal updates here... unless/until the matter is amicably resolved.
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September 16th, 2020 17:00
MyPal has been updated to version 28.13.1
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September 20th, 2020 05:00
I have been using MyPal since it started as NewMoon, and have found it invaluable since Pale Moon (long my favourite browser) stopped supporting XP two or three years ago. It's not really a question of choice - I would always install Pale Moon on an operating system that supported it - but of needing an up-to-date responsive browser on an unsupported system.
My take on the dispute is that some of the developers at PM strongly believe that it is wrong to modify it for unsupported OSs and so have become very angry at those who have done so.
The other view, of course, is that they are performing a public service by allowing people who cannot afford or adapt to a new computer (including hundreds of millions in developing and less well off countries) to continue to use their old machines, and they may well be benefitting the environment, too, by delaying mass scrappings.
I personally know many people in different parts of the world who are grateful for Uncle Fyodor's dedication to MyPal and wish him (as well as those who work on Pale Moon) well: we need them both.