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
Pale Moon 31.3.1 release notes:
This is a security and compatibility update.
Changes/fixes:
- Added detection suport for the newly-released MacOS 13 (Ventura).
- Fixed a potential heap Use-After-Free risk in Expat. (CVE-2022-40674) DiD
- Fixed potentially undefined behavior in our thread locking code. DiD
- Fixed a potentially exploitable crash in the refresh driver.
- Fixed potentially undefined behavior when base-64 decoding. DiD
- Implemented a texture size cap for WebGL to prevent potential issues with some graphics drivers. DiD
- Updated site-specific overrides to address issues with ZoHo.
- UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 1 fixed, 2 DiD, 6 not applicable.
Download: Pale Moon (64-bit) | Portable 64-bit | ~40.0 MB (Freeware)
Download: Pale Moon (32-bit) | Portable 32-bit
Links: Pale Moon Homepage | Add-ons | Themes | Extensions