Pale Moon is a custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser for Windows operating systems with current, high performance processors. It looks identical to the standard Firefox browser and supports Firefox extensions, themes and identities.
Features:
- Highly optimized for modern processors
- 100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
- Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
- Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
- Stability: experience fewer browser crashes.
- Support for SVG and Canvas, and downloadable fonts including WOFF
- Support for HTML5 and WebGL (v4+)
- Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas
- Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)
- Able to use existing Firefox bookmarks and settings with this migration tool
A small maintenance release to address a few annoyances in the original new release of v11.0:
Tone down the rather too aggressive network settings that were introduced in Firefox 11:
- Maximum concurrent connections opened by Pale Moon lowered to 48 (was 256) to make sure it doesn't easily saturate the networking layer of Windows, to prevent residential NAT gateways from being overloaded and to lower strain on wireless networks
- Maximum concurrent connections to a single server lowered to 6 (was 15). In tandem with pipelining this is still plenty, and it actually promotes the proper intended use of pipelining
- Fix the installer to properly check for the minimum required operating system version: Windows XP for both x86 and x64 versions
- Switch off OpenGL as preferred engine for WebGL again to fix compatibility problems
- Switch off DirectWrite font rendering again to fix compatibility issues with certain graphics cards
- Properly implement the removal/blocking of status bar add-ons when upgrading/installing
In addition, Pale Moon 11 will:
- Save open session information less often (once a minute)
- No longer store form data and other entered information in the browser session store when pages are viewed over SSL, to increase security - the data entered in secure pages is no longer committed to disk.
Download setup: Pale Moon 11.0.1 | 11.8 MB (Freeware)
Download portable: Pale Moon 11.0.1 | 15.2 MB
Download: Pale Moon 11.0.1 x64 | 14.0 MB
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