I wanted to reply to this earlier, but the busyness (madness?) of the season made that all but impossible to do. It is now Boxing Day, (which is the day after Christmas where I live, but I doubt that is a universal name for the 26th?) and I am finally free to relax with few commitments.
About my contributions to the forums, going back through my posts there is plenty of evidence that I appreciate the need of a Pale Moon user to have a second browser, which I have ungrudgingly recommended more than once in my replies. For me, I have settled on Edge since it is already taking up some disk space on both my laptops (and I have no interest in investigating whether it can be removed from Windows 10), and it is more than adequate to play DRM'd content from Netflix or Spotify, or the web apps which I find run slow enough to be frustrating (Discord) or don't appear to work fully (iCloud) on Pale Moon.
Unlike a lot of Pale Moon users, I have zero interest in tweaking Pale Moon with "rules", "redirects" or something to try and get sites working like, as one example, Discourse based forums. That might make me an exception in the community (?), but if I can switch to a second browser and simply get done what I want to do without research or any experimentation, that works for me.
So why have I highlighted performance a couple of times recently? Why haven't I just given the advice "use Edge (or similar)" which is what I am doing, instead of pointing out the obvious?
The second reason is that I feel for people who are new to Pale Moon and may have come from places like this EDIT: https://www.makeuseof.com/lightweight-windows-browsers article (EDIT: previous incorrect link https://www.techpout.com/best-lightweight-browser-for-windows/) which was discussed in a post on the forums, or who read the home page https://www.palemoon.org/ should be given more of a heads-up about the niche nature of Pale Moon.
Neither of those pages even hint at the fact that if you are coming from another browser, that it is highly likely, that sites that you have bookmarked might no longer work. Of course, that is not news to existing Pale Moon users, but the parade of new forum accounts asking "why doesn't my favourite site work (or is so slow)?" suggests to me that new Pale Moon user expectations are not being managed well, so they can be realistic.
For example, I read this on the home page
Honestly, I think I would want to read a bullet point that says something like, "Many popular sites or web apps won't work well, if at all"
Having said all that, I plan to shut up about performance issues on particular web pages from now on because I appreciate that it can be annoying when it is unlikely (for good and valid reasons) that anything can be done about it.
About my contributions to the forums, going back through my posts there is plenty of evidence that I appreciate the need of a Pale Moon user to have a second browser, which I have ungrudgingly recommended more than once in my replies. For me, I have settled on Edge since it is already taking up some disk space on both my laptops (and I have no interest in investigating whether it can be removed from Windows 10), and it is more than adequate to play DRM'd content from Netflix or Spotify, or the web apps which I find run slow enough to be frustrating (Discord) or don't appear to work fully (iCloud) on Pale Moon.
Unlike a lot of Pale Moon users, I have zero interest in tweaking Pale Moon with "rules", "redirects" or something to try and get sites working like, as one example, Discourse based forums. That might make me an exception in the community (?), but if I can switch to a second browser and simply get done what I want to do without research or any experimentation, that works for me.
So why have I highlighted performance a couple of times recently? Why haven't I just given the advice "use Edge (or similar)" which is what I am doing, instead of pointing out the obvious?
I think there are two reasons. Firstly, I have a hope that by naming the problem, it will be possible to get it resolved. I think deep down that I already knew such a hope is irrational given the size of the Pale Moon team and the dominance of Chromium, but I can still dream!you're not telling us anything we don't already know
The second reason is that I feel for people who are new to Pale Moon and may have come from places like this EDIT: https://www.makeuseof.com/lightweight-windows-browsers article (EDIT: previous incorrect link https://www.techpout.com/best-lightweight-browser-for-windows/) which was discussed in a post on the forums, or who read the home page https://www.palemoon.org/ should be given more of a heads-up about the niche nature of Pale Moon.
Neither of those pages even hint at the fact that if you are coming from another browser, that it is highly likely, that sites that you have bookmarked might no longer work. Of course, that is not news to existing Pale Moon users, but the parade of new forum accounts asking "why doesn't my favourite site work (or is so slow)?" suggests to me that new Pale Moon user expectations are not being managed well, so they can be realistic.
For example, I read this on the home page
and my reaction is, compared to what?!Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
Honestly, I think I would want to read a bullet point that says something like, "Many popular sites or web apps won't work well, if at all"
Having said all that, I plan to shut up about performance issues on particular web pages from now on because I appreciate that it can be annoying when it is unlikely (for good and valid reasons) that anything can be done about it.