Browser Support • Re: Questions about security protocols and site access

I understand you have reasons for staying with 19.2, but eventually those reasons run head on with Reality where things just start having problems simply because they are no longer supported.

Off-topic: So far I managed to stay afloat, mainly because I do not require much from this old notebook, and there's also people that provide backports for versions even older than Mint 19. And some of the software that officially became incompatible I could build myself and update the old ones. When that will become impossible I'll probably stick to what I have until it won't work at all anymore, and then... I'll be too old to care.

Anyway, the problem here might not even be my fault but something else that I wouldn't want to scare people with. There was something a bit unclear to me, and got clarified, so now the settings are back to how they should be, it's all good.

After 20+ years of GUI in Windows it wasn't easy at all for me to suddenly switch to a completely unknown environment. I'm mostly a GUI and mouse person due to that Windows experience, but I never was afraid to try other ways to get the job done. Even after seven years of Linux - all under Mint 19.2 after a brief initial 19.1 installation that got updated - I still dislike the Terminal but I do use it when needed if there's no GUI alternative. However, the Terminal is not necessarily required to install Pale Moon (or any other software for that matter). It all depends on the file manager choice, and its capabilities. I use Double Commander with a handful of plug-ins - as a replacement to Total Commander which I used for all those 20+ years in Windows - and it's darn easy to right-click the deb package, select Open with > GDebi and click Install Package. But I don't even use a deb package, because I build Pale Moon myself lately due to the lack of support mentioned above, so it comes packed as an xz archive; it doesn't matter, because in DblCmd I double-click the archive (which gets opened inside the panel as if it were a regular folder), drag the palemoon folder out to the other panel where the previous version is located, confirm the overwrite, and that's it. Well, I run it in portable mode so it's easier to manage.

It's all about keeping an open mind, and knowing when to stick to one's ways and when to try something else, something new that gets the desired result.