your constant use of the FUD term smacks of a flame war artist or Trolling
FUD is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Not to be blunt, but that's exactly what gets wheeled out every time someone so much as mentions an alternative build. The developer will get bored. It could get abandoned at any moment. Addons probably won't work with it much longer. The work will be too hard for the developer. The developer probably only has basic coding skills and will soon fall over, etc. etc. etc. Drawing heavily on every possible negative and pushing them as much as possible is the very definition of FUD. That's not meant in a derogatory way, it's just how it is. Also, pointing this out (in one discussion thread) isn't trolling or flaming.
I am not certain why when we point out the obvious, i.e. that the spin-offs are Firefox with a few changes and that actual forks are a hell of a lot harder then people understand, are considered FUD.
That part isn't FUD I grant you. I'm fully aware that Pale Moon is basically a tweaked Firefox (that's one of the main reasons I like it). It's all the doom-mongering that goes hand in hand with this which is the problem IMO.
Nor do I understand why folks who use these programs feel a need take vaguely related threads off topic with their cheerleading.
I seem to recall that this was not the case in the thread this was originally split from. A user was asking about avoiding Australis and discussions about the relative merits/drawbacks of the ESR release were mentioned, along with CTR and SeaMonkey. Then someone mentioned Pale Moon (amongst other suggestions) as another option to look at and promptly got jumped upon and lambasted. That's not an off-topic post, spamming or trolling. It was a genuine attempt by the user to point out another option which is still 99% Firefox, but without Australis. If anything, the lambasting and complaining was what drove the original thread off-topic. I disagreed with the negative comments that followed this incident, hence my original response. I'm perfectly happy with this current discussion being split from that original thread and never complained about you doing so.
Wrong. A theme and extension developer, like myself, knows exactly how much programming is needed to do this
With respect, themes and extensions are different to "alternative builds". Especially when you have to constantly update and test them to cover each new patch, security update, etc from both Mozilla and your own tweaks/modifications. Not saying that extensions are easy mind you (some are very difficult indeed), but it seems a bit simplified to say "I can knock up a theme easily enough so the Pale Moon developer is obviously a lazy sod with no real programing skills". That's a bit of a far-reaching conclusion to come to.
But, I do genuinely dislike people like you and your kind. I don't know if you are all 13 years old or just stuck in some 2005 Slashdot timewarp...
Yes, the way I've tried to calmly and maturely discuss this, compared with your tactic of running around and shouting "lies, BS!!". You then have the affront to ask if
I'm the one that's 13 years old.
the mock outrage, the BS, the FUD stuff, I have seen a hundred times before. The relentless BS from you guys gets old very quick...
you came along and tried to piss on people's shoes and tell them it's raining
Not to be too blunt, but the fact that you've managed to squeeze the phrase "BS" into every other sentence is also getting very old and tiresome. Please can you grow up. As for my tactics, simply trying to have a calm and mature discussion must be very frustrating for you. Especially the way I've tried to address, discuss and (at times) object to points raised. Consequently, I have never resorted to so called "outrage". Decidedly flabbergasted and disappointed at how you keep using phrases such as "they sure as hell don't have to very advanced coding skills" when talking about someone you don't even know, yes. But full-blown outage? That's a bit far.
As it is, given your deeply immature and unpleasant attitude, is it any wonder that you're very used to seeing people expressing distaste at your posts? I may not agree with everything that LoudNoise and others are saying, but at least they're managing to conduct themselves in a calm and mature fashion.
Just FYI if you'd like to give the modern SeaMonkey a whirl at some point.
Thanks for the info! I think the build of SeaMonkey on my SGI machines is one of the last 1.* releases (and does still look nicely like good old Netscape). I will give one of the newer builds a whirl at some point on my PC. After all, it's always good to have more than one browser to rely on!