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Web Compatibility Support • RESET Re: Suggestion for a fallback browser

Pale Moon forum - Forum index [Unofficial] April 8, 2026
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Pale Moon is the best looking browser both under Windows and Linux (GTK2 here) while ...

While I of course agree about the look of GTK2 Pale Moon (the look was what motivated me to move from Firefox to Pale Moon many years ago (I came later to appreciate privacy , customizability and support), I am a bit surprised by the replies received.

I suppose it is my fault. I did not explicitly say I am looking for a solution which is Linux-only. and preferably either available as: (a) a .deb package in the standard synaptic repository; (b) a .deb package in another repository (as I have installed and update google-chrome); (c) a tar file with automatical update (as Pale Moon). I do not want snap's or alike, and I do not want to install from source (not a thing I am afraid of, but for packages I use very frequently, which is not what I intend to do with the fallback browser).

I do agree bout all bad things have been said here about GUI look and feel, but I am ready to accept what I get (even if I do not like it) for a fallback browser. A fallback browser is something I use very seldom. Namely when I have to join google-meet or zoom meetings, or when I have to acccess the 2-3 commercial sites I use two or three times per year. And I hope not to have to use it for my online banking (currently I use Pale Moon in private window mode ... but recently I noticed a couple of quirks ... some plots appear in a blank page, and a print page to disk crashed PM last time I tried).

But essentially I am looking for a guide to customize (harden) google-chrome or a close relative in a way not to save cookies, history or passwords, nor cache. May be should I delete $HOME/.config/google-chrome and $HOME/.cache/google-chrome and let it recreate afresh ? And/or run always in incognito mode ?

As I said I am ready to run with whatever look-and-feel, and without adblocker (the commercial sites I use won't do ads for third parties)


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