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 32.5.1 changelog:
This is a minor development and security update.
- Restricted protocol fallback for TLS. Pale Moon no longer (by default) allows TLS 1.3 to fall back to earlier protocol versions during the initial handshake.
- Reverted the addition of browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenu due to behavioral issues with menus.
- If you desire the intended behavior, please use an extension instead.
- We no longer support the data: protocol inside SVG"s
- Enabled more validation/error checking for WebGL on Windows to prevent potential crashes.
- Improved secure context checking for iframes.
- Fixed the handling of relative paths in URLs starting with multiple forward slashes.
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2023-6204, CVE-2023-6210, CVE-2023-6209 and CVE-2023-6205 DiD
- UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 3 fixed, 1 DiD, 14 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