Welcome to the UXP Mypal page
UXP Mypal was a Free and Open Source web browser that supported Windows XP. The source code was censored. The story is ironic.
This page provides the censored source code for anybody who'd like something as dangerous as a forbidden Windows XP web browser.
The UXP Mypal story:
A U.S. developer named Matt Tobin, located at the time in Kokomo-Greentown, Indiana, asserted that Mypal was an “illegal” fork of his own work on PaleMoon (tm), itself a fork of Classic Firefox.
Matt Tobin, also known as Captain Tobin and New Tobin Paradigm, was 36 years old as of 2021. He'd worked continuously on PaleMoon (tm) for years. His efforts helped to make that project and the UXP platform which underlies it successes from a technical perspective.
However, there's a flip side. Matt was able to focus on FOSS as much as he did because he was on disability for mental illness. His father supported him as well due to his inability to work at a regular job.
Disclaimer: We don't know if these points are still correct. Additionally, the statement that it's mental illness as opposed to autism comes from Matt Tobin himself and may not be reliable.
We can state without uncertainty that Matt once told this writer he was a “razor's edge from suicide”. This isn't somebody that you'd want as a babysitter.
In the case of Mypal, Matt complained that Mypal had violated the Mozilla Public License in two respects.
The violations were innocent mistakes. One was purely technical. However, Tobin declined to accept corrections of the violations. Instead, he said that he had the right to revoke Mypal's use of the PaleMoon (tm) source code forever.
The ironic part is that Matt Tobin himself was one of the most serious violators of the Mozilla Public License on the planet.
Not just some random FOSS license. Matt Tobin was a conscious serial violator of the exact same license that he went after a largely innocent developer, Feodor2, for.
Tobin released binaries of Interlink, a fork of the FOSS email program Thunderbird, but he didn't release the source code for Interlink.
Matt Tobin's response to the Interlink license issue was to claim that he did release the source code for Interlink in the form of password-protected archives which he provided upon request.
The legal problem for Tobin is that, as he stated publicly, he only sent the archives to people that he trusted. Um. Sure, that isn't as illegal as Hell. :-)
Mypal per se still exists, but the UXP version has been taken offline.
However, we have the source code for UXP Mypal. You can get it yourself below. The suggestion is to spread the source code around so that it can't disappear.
How to get the UXP Mypal source code:
To get the UXP Mypal source code, use the 2 links provided below:
1. Tarball without git history using wget or web D/L: (278 MB in size)
https://albusluna.com/Mypal-nogit.tar.bz2
2. Tarball with git history using wget or web D/L: (686 MB in size)
Important:
We haven't confirmed that this is the actual UXP Mypal source code. Don't trust the code until you've reviewed it.