I tend to agree, but if the Pale Moon developers agreed they would have shut the project down long ago. The legacy APIs they're clinging to are loaded with security risks -- that's part of why Mozilla ditched them in the first place. And there's not much evidence that Pale Moon et al. are doing anything substantial to remove or mitigate them.

> and cease operation.

I hate when that happens. I choose the applications in my workflow for specific reasons or for some unique value that they offer. It's one thing when a developer moves on from a project and leaves it in an unfinished state. It's an entirely different story when the developer basically throws up his hands and tells their users they give up because xxx is too hard. Just tell me what's wrong and let me decide! Then if your userbase crashes you can make the decision if you want to continue or not. Deciding for yourself what's important to me is extremely frustrating as a user. Kinda like when Microsoft deprecated the SmtpClient Class in .NET and told people to use MailKit instead.

So now it's taboo to use the perfectly good Microsoft class which only takes 6 LOC to send an email and everyone is crapping their pants trying to make 300 LOC mailkit scripts to perform the same task. Because some clown at Microsoft got a hard-on over MailKit and decided to burn their own house down.

.NET Core? We are still mostly on .NET Framework land and happily using SmtpClient.

Yes sounds like they should just cut their losses. They gave it a try and discovered you can't maintain a fork of a browser that easily.

I reckon Lord_Lestat is about 12 years old.

The political propaganda in your post, e.g. "radical left", "leftist fanaticism," makes it lose all meaning. Sadly I didn't see a flag button. I would hope that posts like yours are not welcome in a technical discussion.

There is a difference between discussing something and the fascist haters of customization these days.

It is a fact that most people are either using Firefox OR Chrome and sharing such a toxic opinion. And that is not what the right-wing side is spreading, this opinion you can find majority-wise at the left-winger audience.

Therefor Lestat is right and this has to be mentioned, as there is zero reason that such disgusting fascism just should not be ignored.

Would you please stop?

Say a farmer notices they accidentally dropped their rat poisson into the milk. Should they still sell it?

Assume it comes with the warning "this will kill you", printed large enough to inform exactly the same fraction of customers as PaleMoon users who have the competence and information to make an informed judgement regarding its security.

Also: this has absolutely nothing to do with "leftism" and "dictatorship", and "conformity". Except in the sense that those terms have apparently become synonyms for "not doing stupid things that will harm you" to people prone to use all-caps.

If you don't have the resources or expertise to provide those features in a safe fashion, you're not doing the user any favors by going ahead and providing them anyway.