Welcome to the Pale Moon project homepage
Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from source with carefully selected features and optimizations to maximize the browser's speed*, stability and user experience, while maintaining compatibility with the thousands of Firefox extensions you have come to love and rely on.
This means that this browser, however extremely close to Firefox in the way it works, does not offer all the functions that Firefox has. A few, carefully selected, features have been disabled that are not in high demand, and that do not interfere with the way web pages are displayed or function; all to maximize the efficiency of the browser. Please see the page with technical details to learn exactly what the browser supports, and what it doesn't support. For example, if you need accessibility features or parental controls, then please visit the Firefox homepage and get the official, non-optimized version of the browser.
With the current generation of Gecko-based browsers, there are a few other differences between Pale Moon and its sibling Firefox that are more obvious and not just "under the hood": contrary to what Mozilla has done with their redesign of the user interface, Pale Moon will continue to provide a familiar set of controls and visual feedback similar to previous versions, including grouped navigation buttons of a decent size, a bookmarks toolbar that is enabled by default, tabs next to page content by default (easily switchable) and not in the least a functional status bar, to name a few things.
To download the current version** of the Pale Moon browser, please click below for the web-installer, which will check your system's capabilities and allow a quick choice of browser, or download the installer of your choice by going to the appropriate download page from the menu at the top of this page!
Download (web
installer) If you have any problems using
the web-installer, please download manually.
Main 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, CSS3 and WebGL
- Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas
- Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)
- Able to use existing Firefox profiles with this migration
tool
| Top news: Pale Moon 20.0.1 has been released which is a new major version based on Gecko v20. This release has a large number of fixes, improvements and a number of new features. More info in the release notes. more news... |
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Pale Moon is, and will always be, completely FREE to download
and use!
(Freeware)
But if you feel so inclined, if you enjoy the browser enough to help
pay for bills for hosting this webpage and further development of the
browser:
Dress up your browser!
While you are here, get a matching Theme (persona) for Pale Moon! It's simple, click the image below and allow the site to install the theme:
or, if you prefer a dark persona to match a dark desktop theme, try this one:
An additional contributed theme can be found here.
If you are interested in keeping updated of new releases of the optimized Pale Moon web browser for windows, please register on the official Pale Moon forum and subscribe to "Announcements", or subscribe to the Atom feed of the announcements board.
You may also be kept up to date by following the Twitter feed by clicking the button below:
Pale Moon also has a Facebook page:
* Please note that current, popular "benchmarks" are extremely limited in what they test and the way they test "browser speed". Pale Moon does not aim to have an "as high as possible benchmark score", but instead focuses heavily on overall browser smoothness, lower CPU usage, efficient networking and program-wide optimizations not related to a certain (limited) subset of functions. Benchmarks, by definition, do not provide a real world browsing scenario, and should not be relied on to determine "which browser is faster or better".
** For your convenience, Pale Moon only releases versions based on select and relevant version updates of the Firefox code, and will be released on a different release schedule than Firefox because of individual development, building and testing. If you need to run the very latest version of Mozilla Firefox code at all times (on the "bleeding edge") or prefer the latest features incorporated in Firefox development, then this browser may not be the best choice for you.
Main download mirrors graciously provided by:
Firefox,
Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla are registered trademarks of the Mozilla
Corporation.
Site and contents © 2009-2013 Moonchild Productions - All rights reserved
Pale Moon's distribution is subject to the following redistribution policy
Site and contents © 2009-2013 Moonchild Productions - All rights reserved
Pale Moon's distribution is subject to the following redistribution policy