Neither Seamonkey nor Pale Moon have the resources to keep up, and Pale Moon were even forced to drop Android support and discontinue their mail client (Fossamail) due to lack of resources. I love Pale Moon (just like I still love Seamonkey) but I have to practical. I switched to Pale Moon back when Seamonkey stagnated, but I was forced to switch again to Waterfox a month or so ago because Pale Moon is just so unresponsive. It's rendering engine diverged to the point that Pale Moon's lead developer (Moonchild) trademarked it Goanna, to distinguish it from Gecko. They even run their own independent sync server. Pale Moon forked years ago, and maintains a completely separate and independently developed codebase. Pale Moon is the only real fork here that doesn't rely on Mozilla releasing new versions of Firefox (Seamonkey doesn't really rely on it either, but it's barely being updated anyway). However, it's still completely reliant on Mozilla releasing new versions of Firefox, and it even uses Mozilla's sync server for sync. Waterfox Classic, on the other hand, is a bit more involved, in that it preserves the ability to use XUL extentions. Each new release of Firefox is given these modifications, and called Waterfox Current. Waterfox Current is a sort-of fork of Firefox, with a few modifications. Again, without Firefox, there is no Icecat. This of course makes it unofficial, which means it can't use the Firefox name. Richard Stalin doesn't like the way Mozilla compiles against non-free libraries, so Icecat is the Firefox codebase but compiled using libraries like LibreJS instead. Iceweasel isn't an alternative to Firefox, it is Firefox. Debian devs tweaked the Firefox code to make it work properly/better on Debian, which means it's no longer an official release, which means it can't use the trademarked Mozilla/Firefox branding. Iceweasel is Firefox, with different branding. It's sync no longer works and it has very few available extensions. But it's basically on life support and get's virtually no development. Seamonkey/Mozilla Suite was great, and I continued to use it for years after Firefox and Thunderbird were forked from it. As with everything Linux, practice makes perfect (or somewhere close).Click to expand.The problem is that almost none of those are real alternatives. If you keep compiling from source as a way to expand knowledge, but also to add new functionality from latest snapshots, then this stuff becomes second nature after a while. In short this was my first ever kernel rebuild, and i managed it after about 30 tries.). After that try something harder, say a custom kernel (some years back when i was using Fedora 8 i needed a certain driver for some hardware i bought, but i was essentially told by Fedora Devs that it wasnt their problem (which is part of the reason i went to other distros), and i had to build a new kernel from scratch, as the latest kernel at the time had this new driver in it. Its a fairly easy build, with not many dependencies. Grab yourself the source for say, the linux game LBreakout2 ( ). Dont try and start by recompiling Firefox or Mplayer (both are by my rating hard compiles, and ive done them many times over the years). My suggestion to you, a person with no luck in compiling, is to start small. You basically download a script/spec type of file and then call it from a program and it downloads the src, and builds you a package you can then install using pacman (Arch equivalent to Yum). Its basically building from source, but automated (apparently Gentoo uses something similar). Now if someone came up with a solid 3rd party build system for RPM users, similar to the AUR system on Arch Linux, that would be highly useful. So after 10+ years of doing stuff like this, it gets really easy. Add to that the fact libFOX (which it uses) is built in a crazy awkward way on Redhat/Fedora, i have to rebuild that too. Problem is on anything Redhat/Fedora their has never been an rpm for it (including 3rd party repos), so it means i have to build it by hand. It is simple uses very little resources and does the job i want it for. Now cue a problem that has been in Redhat/Fedora for as long as i can remember. In the last 5 years ive done many LinuxFromScratch installs, and have built most things from source, because no distro provides everything, not even Debian. I am going to go slightly Offtopic with this, but i feel encouragement is i started out on this path i used Slackware 3 or 4 back then, nothing worked properly and if you needed some functionality, then you grabbed a source tarball and added it.
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