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Of course I do. Some of them neatly stacked in labeled folders, some of them just higgledypiggledy in the great unsorted. I have my bookmark history on hand to way back before the turn of the century. A lot of those links have died, obviously, but it's a neat historical record of my foci, foibles and obsessions over the years.

My data belong either offline or on serverspace I control myself. There's nothing especially secret about it, but like my email (going back more than twenty years), I wouldn't dream of storing data like that online outside my own control.

The bookmarking, by the way, used to take place in Firefox. The ongoing self-immolation of that once mighty browser has recently sent me to the Pale Moon camp. And it's like coming home. I couldn't be happier, running on various Linux'es on the household machinery. The Chrome/Chromium world hegemony is one of those sad, scary things I shall never understand.




Do you think that Pale Moon will live? I'm not really happy with firefox nowadays (not that I'm too much tied to it, a switch-away is as hard as exporting my bookmarks), it's getting slower and slower, sometimes uses all the ram and cpu on my Xubuntu laptop for no apparent reason, and I hate this recent WebExtensions thing. I want to switch, but I don't want to use sth. that's destined to die soon.

Why can't we have a Linux of a browser, that's built with large collaboration, is highly customisable, and completely focused on being merely a browser in itself. Kind-a webkit, but with minimal chrome... All that said, Xombrero my ex that I'll always miss.


It's a small project - I have no guarantee that it will. I shall do my little bit to keep it afloat, though, as it is by far the most promising FF alternative or fork that I have found. But then, I rely heavily on certain add-ons which will soon go extinct in mainline FF, but may have a future in PM. Your mileage may indeed vary.

I can't help noticing: Pale Moon is slightly faster in most regards, and it gobbles slightly more than half of what recent Firefox does. This is Arch Linux, I have no idea how the world looks outside that small bubble.




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