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@@ -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