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diff --git a/network/PaleMoon/README b/network/PaleMoon/README index 2caaa793dc..3e803694c0 100644 --- a/network/PaleMoon/README +++ b/network/PaleMoon/README @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ of your browser! Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code, with carefully selected features and -optimizations to improve the browser's speed*, resource use, stability +optimizations to improve the browser's speed, resource use, stability and user experience, while offering full customization and a growing collection of extensions and themes to make the browser truly your own. @@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ Using the Oxygen theme is known to cause Pale Moon to crash; if you are experiencing crashes, and segfaults, make sure you are not using this theme. See the help doc link above for creative tips and workarounds. -It is important that the dependency gst-libav is present while Pale Moon is -being compiled, or else Pale Moon will lack the ability to play h.264 html 5 -video; installing it after the fact will not resolve this issue. +Pale Moon has switched its dependency on gst-libav to ffmpeg; and +gstreamer is slated for complete removal in later versions; if desired +however, pass the parameter ENABLE_GST_LIBAV=yes to the SlackBuild to go +on using gstreamer (for now). If you are having issues with media such as +h.264 html 5 video, make sure ffmpeg is installed before compiling +Pale Moon -- installing ffmpeg afterwards may not work. A native fork of FireFox's developer tools exists as an external add-on or internally. Pale Moon by default ships with the developer tools internally; @@ -44,7 +47,9 @@ them. Pale Moon's default is to build, ship, and use its own internal dictionary; if desired, however, do USE_SYSTEM_HUNSPELL=yes ./PaleMoon.SlackBuild, to -use the Slackware system Hunspell instead. +use the Slackware system Hunspell instead. This assumes you have dictionaries +such as hunspell-en or hunspell-es installed in /usr/share/hunspell -- the +location that a few SlackBuilds at SBo install them. If your processor doesn't support sse2 instructions or you get segfaults, try looking in the SlackBuild for the OPTIMIZE build option (eventually |