To me this is a plus, as I do not like any software installing without my explicit permission. You can check internally for newer versions, and upgrade manually (Help>About Pale Moon). It does not update to new versions automatically, nor does it install FF updates. Its default search engine is DuckDuckGo, which I actually prefer to Google. Anyone familiar with FF should be able to configure it, since the GUI is similar. It has de-cluttered a lot of FF, with a more intuitive/simpler interface. I no longer get that annoying alert to terminate the firefox.exe process (it runs a palemoon.exe process, which does not stay in memory when the browser is closed). It is definitely faster than FF 29.0 for me. Easy download/installation, with no bundled junkware or ads. Initial impressions, after using it for a few days: Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available for XP/sp3 and newer Windows systems. (You don't need to uninstall FF first - they can co-exist). It has been getting positive reports in a number of security forums, is compatible with XP/sp3, can be run in Sandboxie, and a new version (24.6.0) involving extensive updates was recently released. Which brings us to the free Pale Moon (PM) browser, modeled on Mozilla/Firefox, but using its own code. Uninstalling/reinstalling FF does not work. None of them are simple, and after trying a few I lost patience. I Googled the message, and there are a ton of suggestions on how to fix it. It is certainly new behaviour in the past few months, at least in XP. Why this process persists after closing FF, I have no idea. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.' I end up killing firefox.exe in task manager or in WinPatrol. And it has developed a new glitch: about half the time when I try to open FF I get an alert that ' Firefox is already running, but is not responding. I was using Firefox29.0 with Sandboxie but it is now slow as molasses. Using IE8 is out of the question for me, now that it is no longer supported. I had hoped to completely disconnect my XP from the internet, but I still find it useful to run it next to Win 7 to troubleshoot problems on occasion.

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