General Discussion • Re: Pale Moon's PR Problem

Pale Moon has ended up retro by default

I don't really want to do "retro," and sometimes it feels like that's the only thing people want from us.

I don't think it was ever about "retro". If anything, the goal was always to make things better and in more sensible ways. Sure, the term "modern" is now omnipresent and mainstream venues will hardly ever apply it on Pale Moon. Doesn't mean we are "retro" though.

Also, making it to the Lunduke's Non-Woke Software List would be very much desirable.

Ugh. Just... no. I won't waste further words on that.

...promoting it as a new browser that is untethered from Firefox's past would be useful. In fact, not mentioning Firefox at all, anywhere, would be quite an exciting experiment to try.

This is very interesting, the entire Firefox debacle. As mentioned, you cannot possibly erase/cancel the Firefox history but you can smartly re-brand the whole thing in your favour.

"Remember when browsing was fun?", "Take control back" and even more aggressive stuff like that. You are not erasing the past - make it an asset instead.

Furthermore, and this should be within the Team's reach I hope: carefully pick a few, powerful extensions than can do stuff not possible elsewhere, or at least not as good. Make a showcase out of it: "See what you can do? It's a click away". Should be prominent in the home page with examples, images and all that attention-grabbing stuff people love.

Take these extensions under your wing and make them sort of official i.e. maintain and update them.

Moonchild is already handling Suspender, for example. I did not have Suspender in mind but surely you can take on a few powerful extensions and publish/fork them as "The Pale Moon Team" or something. They will not be installed by default, but as a "See what YOU can do?" boost, I think it could help a lot.