FAQ: Is Pale Moon up-to-date?

[Corrine]

Since many people are confused by the Pale Moon versions compared to Firefox, Moonchild added the following to the FAQ's today.  (Original at Pale Moon forum • View topic - Is Pale Moon up-to-date?)

Is Pale Moon up-to-date?

Yes, it certainly is.
Pale  Moon is actively developed. The confusion is apparently present because  Pale Moon has a lower major version number than its sibling Firefox.
A few points:

• Security:  Pale Moon is kept updated with the latest applicable security patches  that make it into the Mozilla (Firefox/seamonkey/thunderbird/etc.)  source code.
  
• Version numbers: Pale Moon's version number is what  it is because of the version of Firefox it is most compatible with.  e.g.: Pale Moon 24.6 is a far cry from Firefox 24.0 in terms of code,  and should not be compared with it. It just means that the front-end  code is most compatible with Firefox 24 from an add-on point of view.
  
• Feature  updates: Pale Moon adopts a number of features from later Firefox  versions that are considered essential and desired for Pale Moon
  
• Divergence:  Pale Moon increasingly diverts from what Mozilla is doing to Firefox,  and going in its own direction. Versioning of Pale Moon can therefore  seem a little confusing since it originally was a fairly close  reflection of Firefox with the same version, but it no longer is (and  hasn't been for a while).
  

Version numbers should therefore  not be compared to Firefox versions at this point. Firefox's arbitrary,  calendar-ruled versioning is a poor reflection of the state of code and  state of features.

[LilBambi]

Hard to believe that some folks haven't read about this by now.

Moonchild posted about this last month too. Maybe some new folks?

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