Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Android, focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out 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 browsers 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.
Features:
- Optimized for modern processors
- Based on proprietary optimized layout engine (Goanna)
- Safe: forked from mature Mozilla code and regularly updated
- Secure: Additional security features and security-aware development
- Supported by our user community, and fully non-profit
- Familiar, efficient, fully customizable interface
- Support for full themes: total freedom over any elements design
- Support for easily-created lightweight themes (skins)
- Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
- Increased stability: experience fewer browser crashes
- Support for many Firefox extensions
- Support for a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive extensions
- Extensive and growing support for HTML5 and CSS3
- Many customization and configuration options
Changes in Pale Moon v27.2.1:
- Fixed an issue with planar alpha handling (transparency) when drawing JXR images.
- Fixed a crash related to a change JavaScript array handling introduced in 27.2.0.
- This became apparent with the pentadactyl extension, but could happen in other situations as well.
- Fixed a crash when opening ridiculously large images with HQ scaling enabled (default).
- Pale Moon will now only apply HQ scaling for images within reasonable limits (64 Mpix or smaller). Images larger than that may not display properly when zooming in, or may not display at all, even scaled down (e.g. >256 Mpix large) and show a "broken image" placeholder instead; please use dedicated image viewer applications for those kinds of images; it is outside the scope of a web browser to handle such large images.
- Changed the way URL hashes are handled, and will no longer %-decode anchor hash identifiers by default.
- Note that this is against RFC 3986, which states that any part of the URL scheme that isn"t data should be decoded.
- This is required for web compatibility because several sites use hash links to pass actual data to web applications (Please don"t do this! Hashes ar part of the URL address, should only consist of "safe" characters, and aren"t suited to pass arbitrary data) and the most common browsers no longer follow the RFC in that respect.
- If you want RFC compliance, switch dom.url.getters_decode_hash to true
- Restored 2 RSA Camellia cipher suites that were missing: TLS_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA and TLS_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA
- Fixed an issue with custom toolbars getting deleted during upgrade from 27.0/27.1 to 27.2
Download: Pale Moon (32-bit) | Portable 32-bit | ~30.0 MB (Freeware)
Download: Pale Moon (64-bit) | Portable 64-bit
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