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Have you looked at https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ ?

It's basically XUL Firefox w/o WebExtension crap (they played with WebExtensions and bailed).

Made by the same people who make Pale Moon, it's basically a successor.

The main downside, of course, is the XUL extension authors are unlikely to keep updating their extensions now the XUL is dead on OG Firefox.



I've tried the 64 bit version of Pale Moon several years ago and it didn't seem as performant as Firefox (could've been due to the setup and environment; I didn't bother to investigate deeper). The fact that many XUL extensions have been abandoned or have stopped development is a concern though. Thanks for the Basilisk mention. It may be a good alternative for older machines that the current Firefox doesn't support.




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