{"id":289,"date":"2011-05-05T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/pale-moon\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T00:56:00","slug":"pale-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/pale-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>***Geek interest only disclaimer.***<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palemoon.org\/\">Pale Moon<\/a> web browser.  It&#8217;s a modification of Firefox, optimized for speed and simplicity. (I was going to call it a &#8220;fork&#8221;, but since each time they update Firefox they soon create a new Pale Moon based on it, it&#8217;s not really a true fork)<\/p>\n<p>It was optimized in several ways.  They removed seldom used features, such as parental controls, and accessibility.  They removed support for older processors &#8212; don&#8217;t try to use it with a Pentium III, though a Pentium 4 will work.<\/p>\n<p>Is it faster?  Benchmarks show that it is, but I can&#8217;t really say from my own experience.  Web page loading varies so much from day to day and minute to minute that it&#8217;s hard to say for sure.  But it seems to run fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***Geek interest only disclaimer.*** Lately I&#8217;ve been using the Pale Moon web browser. It&#8217;s a modification of Firefox, optimized for speed and simplicity. (I was going to call it a &#8220;fork&#8221;, but since each time they update Firefox they soon create a new Pale Moon based on it, it&#8217;s not really a true fork) It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}