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Pale Moon: Site News 28 Jan 2012 An update to Pale Moon 3.6.x. has been released today, making it 3.6.29, which fixes some security and stability issues for this tried and tested browser branch. 24 Jan 2012 Pale Moon 9.1 has been released. This includes all versions: 32-bit and 64-bit, desktop and portable. Pale Moon 9.1 is a bugfix release, addressing security, stability and functional issues, incorporating code from Firefox 10. There will be no Pale Moon v10! The next major release will be version 11, scheduled for March. 18 Jan 2012 Today, for one day, the website has been blacked out in protest against the proposed PIPA and SOPA legislations in the United States and similar proposed laws in the rest of the world, violating freedom of speech and paving the way for unbridled and arbitrary censorship on the Internet. 09 Jan 2012 After some delays, Pale Moon 9.0.1 has been released. Version 9.0 remains unpublished due to its performance issues. This includes all versions: 32-bit, 64-bit and Portable versions of both releases. 17 Nov 2011 Pale Moon 3.6.27 has been released, which fixes several security issues and a major performance issue. 14 Nov 2011 Pale Moon 8.0 has been released today! This is a major update building on the Firefox 8.0 code base, with additional improvements to make browsing faster and smoother overall. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are released in tandem. Also some minor updates of the style on the web page, to improve readability on most screens. 29 Oct 2011 Pale Moon 3.6.26 has been released, which is a minor update to address issues with Asian fonts. The Portable versions have been updated to incorporate compacting techniques so they take less space on your stick (and will inherently load faster from slow media): Pale Moon Portable 3.6.26a takes 42% less space when installed than 3.6.26 Pale Moon Portable 7.0.1a takes 50% less space when installed than 7.0.1 This compression is currently not yet possible for 64-bit, so the x64 portable will remain unchanged. 20 Oct 2011 A portable version of Pale Moon 7.0.1-x64 has been created. This includes a new 64-bit launcher for the portable browser (which has been the hangup until now). Also, a new mirror has been added in a few locations, on donated space of one of the beta testers. Thanks for that! 19 Oct 2011 Pale Moon 7.0.1-x64 (64-bit) has been released. This addresses a few smaller performance issues - more are in the works, but hampered by the instability of the Microsoft Visual C compiler (it keeps crashing when building). 07 Oct 2011 Pale Moon 7.0.1 has been released, and update to address a performance issue. 01 Oct 2011 Pale Moon 7.0 has been released -- a new major release based on the Firefox 7.0.1 release code. Pale Moon 3.6.24 has been released -- this version incorporates a number of security updates to the browser. 21 Sep 2011 Pale Moon 3.6.23 has been released -- this is the first version that combines the SSE and SSE2 builds as stated in the previous news entry. 13 Sep 2011 There will be an important change in the release framework for Pale Moon 3.6.x. Some serious thought has gone into this decision and I feel it is the right time to simplify things. Starting with the next release, the version 3.6.x branch of Pale Moon will see a unification of the two versions currently being released, and making all releases of that version of the browser SSE builds. This means that work will be more focused on fewer releases, and it will be less confusing for Pale Moon users to decide which build they need for themselves. Reasoning: Part of the reason for this is that, with the current releases of 6.0.2 and the preliminary work on 7.x, the disadvantages of the code for Windows XP users are being mitigated and stability is being improved for those platforms, making the move to the next generation browser also on that platform more and more recommended. Another part is the fact that the distribution of v3.6.x sees a dwindling number of users using it on more modern hardware, judging by some global metrics at my disposal. This makes the effort of maintaining a double release for this branch lay too much claim on limited time and resources. Instead of discontinuing the Athlon XP version (which would be the other option, since it has a vastly smaller number of current users) I decided to keep as broad as possible support for hardware in this branch without compromising too much. The branch will run on Windows 2000 and up (as opposed to 6.x XP SP2 and up) and on P-III/AthlonXP and up (as opposed to 6.x Athlon64/P4 and up) - An older browser for older hardware/O.S., a better match for it. Going from SSE2 to SSE for the current 3.6.x builds will see a small loss of performance in that branch, as a drawback; in effect they will all become "Athlon XP" builds. So, the advantages: Simpler choice for users of Pale Moon Version 3.6.x will be one release, running from Athlon XP/P-III upwards Better focus on fewer release builds Streamlining of the web installer and download options 3.6.x will continue to be developed and maintained for people needing this version of the browser Disadvantages: Only one, a minor loss of performance in the 3.6.x branch. If performance is an issue for you, consider moving to the 6.x version of the browser. I hope you all understand the step taken here and see the logic behind it. If you have any concerns about this, feel free to make use of the forum to chat with other users or direct your questions towards me. 10 Sep 2011 Today is the twin release date of Pale Moon 3.6.22 and 6.0.2! Also, the web site sees a few changes: MD5 checksums are no longer listed for integrity checks. If your download manager or integrity checker doesn't support SHA-1 yet, you should switch! MD5 is by now an ancient alogrhythm that has some severe flaws, and should no longer be relied upon. I will be phasing out the use of BitTorrent from the main site. Running a seed box for the few people actually using it is a total waste of resources. Bittorrent-only links (most notably, the source code) will be converted to either FTP or HTTP and hosted where possible in the cloud from now on. A cosmetic change to better reflect the AthlonXP builds. They will be called SSE builds from now on. 07 Sep 2011 There was a really odd problem with DNS lookups due to a connection glitch with the ISP the master DNS server is on for palemoon.org. This has been fixed now, but it means the forum, start page and web page may have had "host not found" errors for a while. Hopefully this won't happen again. If it does, I'll have to look into rehoming the master DNS server to somewhere that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg to operate. 31 Aug 2011 In response to the DigiNotar compromised CA certificate, Pale Moon will not be releasing an update to the browser for the sole purpose of removing a certificate from its built-in storage. More information on the forum: http://bit.ly/rr20Y1 29 Aug 2011 Pale Moon now has an official forum site: http://forum.palemoon.org/ 25 Aug 2011 The Pale Moon start page was changed again to completely host on a high capacity server now - thanks to Sity hosting once again for helping the Pale Moon project out with bandwidth. The news page is located at http://start.palemoon.org/ but the website will automatically forward you to it to not break with current defaults. 24 Aug 2011 The Pale Moon start page was changed to externalize its graphic files (using imageshack instead) - the web hoster for www.palemoon.org seems to have trouble handling the traffic of the many hits to the page with a lot of small files in it. This change should make the start page a lot more speedy to load. 23 Aug 2011 Pale Moon 6.0 has been released! Desktop, Portable and x64 (64-bit) versions of the browser are now available. 15 Aug 2011 I've made a start to display Google AdSense ads on the Pale Moon start page. I hate to resort to this but the few and far between donations for the browser don't cover my costs for hosting the site, even with the low rate I pay for it. The ads may not be very relevant for the time being, since the ads are still "training" for content. 13 Aug 2011 The Athlon XP (SSE) version of Pale Moon 3.6.20 has been released. Work has started on Pale Moon 6.0, for which the source code has been finalized at Mozilla. 10 Aug 2011 Pale Moon 3.6.20 has been released. This is a minor update to the 3.6 series of browsers. 29 Jul 2011 As of today, the website has been moved back to its original hosting machine. Unfortunately I wasn't notified beforehand with sufficient margin so the site (including the start page) has been unavailable due to latent DNS updates for a little while. 20 Jul 2011 Yesterday, the web server machine hosting www.palemoon.org and a number of related sites suffered a catastrophic hardware failure. The website has been unavailable for a little over a day because of that. This also impacted the web installer and updates to the browser. The web hosting company has been working to move the accounts to a different machine, which has been completed. the DNS update with the new IP address shouldn't take long which will see the site fully accessible again world-wide. 14 Jul 2011 Mozilla has released 3.6.19 and 5.0.1 which incorporate MacOS specific workarounds for MacOS specific bugs. These versions will be skipped as they don't apply to Pale Moon (being Windows only, Mac OS is not a supported platform). 25 Jun 2011 Pale Moon 5.0 has been released! Desktop, portable and x64 have been released. Some important things to note with this release: Pale Moon 4.x will be completely discontinued - no further updates beyond 4.0.7. If you like the next generation browser you have had in 4.x, then 5.0 is the way to go. Pale Moon 3.6 will continue to be developed and supported. Consider 3.x and 4/5 to be two separate and independent products. The portable versions of browsers, from now on, will no longer be supplied as a .zip file, but rather as a self-extracting (and smaller) archive. Run the .exe and tell it where to unpack, and there you go! 20 Jun 2011 Pale Moon 3.6.18 has been released! Desktop & Portable, Regular and AthlonXP versions. 19 Jun 2011 The website server is having technical difficulties. The web hosting provider is working on getting this resolved ASAP. 04 Jun 2011 The PHP download script borked yet again today, so I've tossed it out. Working links is more important than my personal desire for statistics. 02 Jun 2011 Pale Moon 3.6.17 has been released! This includes Desktop and Portable Regular and Athlon XP versions. 01 Jun 2011 Apparently, the PHP download script borked today, wiping out ALL the download links. I'm not sure what happened, but I'll make sure to keep a backup of the storage file with the links and IDs from now on. :/ 30 May 2011 Pale Moon 4.0.7 has been released today - Destop/Portable/x64 versions are released simultaneously. 09 May 2011 Pale Moon 4.0.6 has been released. This marks an update to the underlying Firefox source code, fixing a large number of bugs, as well as some Pale Moon specific updates. In development news: I am currently looking at possibly switching over to Visual Studio 2010, but ran into one showstopper problem: it will not allow the C runtime libraries to be rebuilt with optimizations. The overall performance of the browser increases using the new compiler, but at the same time any data handling and memory intensive processes from the browser take such a large performance hit it has been unacceptable to use; in addition, it will prevent older operating systems (pre XP with SP2) from being used. Microsoft has "blackboxed" part of the code development there and it is up to them to release the required scripts and binaries to allow private CRTs to once again be built. Development on Pale Moon will also be halted for a little while as international travel will commence soon. 01 May 2011 A small update has been made to the installer of the 64-bit version of Pale Moon (4.0.5-x64) to fix a compatibility issue with Windows XP x64. Previously, the installer would not allow installation on this O.S., even if the browser would be fine running on it! This update is for the installer only, and does not affect the browser, so no need to worry if you already have this version installed. 23 Apr 2011 The main problems with building an x64 version seem to finally have been overcome, and as such, the 4.0.5-x64 version has been released today! 13 Apr 2011 Pale Moon 4.0.5 has been released, addressing a number of different bugs. 08 Apr 2011 An update to Pale Moon 4 has been released, to address a nasty crash bug in print preview/printing, as well as provide a few other fixes and improvements. 03 Apr 2011 It was brought to my attention (thanks, Henry!) that the website would not display correctly if a default font size in options was set to anything but the standard 16pt. It would actually make the menu mess up and not be fully navigable -- This has now been corrected, and www.palemoon.org should display as-designed. 01 Apr 2011 The x64 (64-bit) version of Pale Moon 4.0 has been released today. 30 Mar 2011 The language packs have been released for Pale Moon 4.0 - Three languages are not available, because the equivalent packs for Firefox are not available either (which they are based on). The languages involved are not major, so it's not a big issue. Then, what cost most of today: x64 builds. As it turns out, the Microsoft Visual C compiler is horribly broken when targeting a 64-bit platform with a complex piece of software. It throws "Internal compiler errors" and simply breaks down when compiling with whole program optimization (which is essential for Pale Moon's performance). Bugs have been filed at Microsoft for this like 101287 and a few others which have all been closed as "fixed" or "by design" but having no solution posted or patch reference (i.e.: they were put under the big Microsoft rock, in the mud). Other people when optimizing have apparently run into the same problem on Mozilla code like on Thunderbird. The solution: disabling PGO and even removing /GL entirely -- this produces stable builds. However, performance of those builds is abysmal compared to 32-bit versions. Performance would be the only plus point of running a native 64 build instead of a 32-bit build, everything else would be a trade-off (like lacking proper Flash and other plugin support). Alternative solution: Get VS 2008 SP1 (full version) - Not something easily funded, and no guarantees that this will fix the issue straight-up, either. The free "Express" version doesn't allow for the use of jemalloc (custom-built CRT) which will also impact performance, doesn't support PGO, and has a few other limitations not easily overcome. What does this mean for Pale Moon? No official releases for x64 for a while yet, until this issue can be solved somehow. Some experimental builds may be released in the [Dev] section, but they will be and remain experimental for the time being, and for the tech-savvy only. 28 Mar 2011 A major update to the website to incorporate (almost) everything needed for version 4.0 of the browser, released today! This release will be staged - things like language packs and updates to the Pale Moon tools will be handled later. 26 Mar 2011 * Pale Moon 4.0 is in its final stages of testing. Expect a release next week somewhere (if I don't get swamped with work). * 3.6.16 has been looked at and will be skipped. The reason is that this deals with a rather dirty hack in a non-structured way in one of the modules to patch up a condition that is extremely unlikely to occur. Next to this hack, there are no changes from 3.6.15! Notable quotes from the bug filed for this: Comodo: "A long-term trusted partner of Comodo which has an RA function suffered an internal security breach and the attacker caused 7 certificates to be issued." The bogus certs were revoked within hours. "... can prevent the victim from contacting the OSCP responder ..." (meaning it is only an issue if you cannot check the certificate online - extremely unlikely since the attacker would need to have the certificates as well as control over your local network) "Filed bug 642503 on moving a more generic version of this blacklist functionality into NSS proper for a future version." (the current patch is injecting code in the connection module. not pretty and a dirty hack) Comodo: "We have analysed our OCSP responder logs and we see no evidence of any of these certificates having seen traffic in the wild other than 2 hits from the attacker himself (from the already mentioned 212.95.136.18 and the almost adjacent 212.95.136.20) and also hits from Comodo staff testing and from Microsoft, Google, and (we think) Mozilla staff testing. The earliest OCSP hit we see is at 15/Mar/2011:21:39:43 UTC, which is after the latest revocation - which was at 20:19 UTC." (i.e.: no need to panic - the gravity of the principle of these certificates being issued is severe, but there is no practical threat.) 04 Mar 2011 Just after releasing .14 and getting everything set, I can go back to building, as someone made a big mistake in the plugin handler code for the browser. Expect 3.6.15 to be released before the weekend is out! If you are having crucial problems with java applets not working and you NEED this functionality NOW, then please download the previous version (3.6.13) and run on that until .15 is out: 3.6.13 Installer 04 Mar 2011 Pale Moon 3.6.14 is released to the public. Regular/portable/AthlonXP versions in one go. At the same time, work has started on a planned web-installer (on-line installer) package for future releases. This should eliminate the need for people to use trial-and-error if they don't know their processor's capabilities, and offer to download the appropriate version for their system automatically, as well as offering the choice between version 3 and 4 when released. 28 Jan 2011 Pale Moon 4.0 development has been picked up again, and now has a dedicated information page about the development of the browser. http://www.palemoon.org/pm4-dev.shtml 12 Dec 2010 Pale Moon 3.6.13 has been released. This has been the maiden task for the new build machine: an IBM Thinkcentre with P4, 2GB of RAM and a quiet WD Serial ATA drive. A sturdy, heavy black metal desktop box that I think will serve me for some time to come! Thanks go to all the donators who have made this possible - every little bit helps! I'm also looking into better structuring this news page and potentially setting up an RSS or Atom feed for people to more easily keep up with news. Twitter is OK for very brief statuses but I tend to have more to say than can be fit in 140 characters. 03 Nov 2010 00:30 Pale Moon 3.6.12 for Athlon XP is now available. Installer, zip, and (new this version) a pre-packaged Portable version as well. 01 Nov 2010 12:00 With the announcement of Mozilla planning the first release candidate of Firefox 4 no sooner than early 2011, development on this branch for Pale Moon has been put on ice for the time being. Beta 6 proving to be as unstable as it is, and obviously full of problems and constantly changing features in the branch, it will be a waste of time to do more preliminary work based on it for Pale Moon until the community has settled on both a feature set and a stable core for the next major version of this browser. Pale Moon 4.0 will probably remain on hold until either the final stages of RCs or until a final release has been made public by the Mozilla Corporation - after which, time will be spent developing Pale Moon on (near-)release code to provide a hopefully stable and efficient release after thorough testing. This will take time. In the meantime, full focus will be on the current branch releases of 3.6.x 28 Oct 2010 20:00 A manual patch of the browser source was used to address a critical security vulnerability that pushed Mozilla to release Firefox 3.6.12 today. This vulnerability is severe enough (and actively exploited in the wild) to provide a 0-day rebuild of Pale Moon with this exploit vulnerability fixed. (Don't ask me how I squeezed it in on this otherwise full day.) There may be a slight performance trade-off for this patch (if not countered by the manual profiling done for this version), but that will be addressed in a later release if it's severe enough. 28 Oct 2010 00:30 To protect people's privacy with the increasing popularity of the browser, the decision was made to no longer include e-mail addresses with the testimonials. If you do wish to submit a testimonial, please do include a mention of either your full name or unique handle, and your city/country, otherwise your submission will be discarded. There are too many people named Chris, John, or Joe in the world to include with just a first name... 27 Oct 2010 09:00 Apparently, there have been a few sites hosting corrupted installers on the release date. For some reason, some download sites had already updated the file even before it was completely distributed on the main download mirrors; the source of this corrupt installer is being investigated, but it will not install due to 7-zip's internal CRC check and give an error. A few major sites with corrupted downloads have been notified of the problem and have fixed it, but it is unknown how many other unofficial mirroring sites are still suffering from incorrect installers - make sure to check the MD5 checksum (if you can) of your downloads to make sure you have a correct, non-corrupted installer! It is, at all times, recommended to download software directly from the author's website, for any software. In case of doubt, download a fresh copy from palemoon.org. 26 Oct 2010 14:00 Pale Moon 3.6.11 has been released! Please check the release notes to see what has changed. Pale Moon and Pale Moon Portable have been updated at this point in time, the Athlon XP version will follow later. Also: Continued problems with Dediplanet and unavailability at this time of release has forced me to scrap them as a main download mirror. As usual, Depositfiles and Divshare are available as alternatives, next to the new main mirror at Sity hosting. Unfortunately, getting a commercial download server for this project is not a viable option, as there is no budget for such a thing. 22 Oct 2010 21:30 Thanks to Pale Moon now has a new main download mirror. 22 Oct 2010 10:30 Pale Moon 3.6.11 is in the works, and will be released when there has been sufficient free time to implement required changes and to build and test the browser. 11 Oct 2010 08:30 It's been a year now since Pale Moon has been launched - Happy anniversary to me! Looking back, a lot has changed in the past year: 2 major changes in the browser and environment. Going from 3.5 to 3.6 was the biggest step, needing a complete rework of the environment. Then another larger change with 3.6.6 and the separation from Firefox (as well as under-the-hood changes) Additions of Pale Moon Portable and Pale Moon for Athlon XP next to the regular browser, by popular demand. Hosting changes: the website and downloads were initially hosted privately, but it soon became clear that this wouldn't be possible with the growing popularity, especially after the article posted on LifeHacker. The website was moved to a dedicated hosting site at JustHost and after that, DediPlanet kindly offered to provide the main download mirror for the browser binaries. A redesign of the website to take advantage of more advanced HTML/CSS features. A few betas, including betas for Pale Moon 4, were made public. A lot of individual e-mail support, addition of a Twitter account next to the mailing list, and more... Looking forward, Pale Moon 4.0 is the next large step to be taken, and hopefully people will continue to enjoy it as much as they seem to have so far! 30 Sep 2010 10:30 Made some changes to the technical page, to include relevant changed source files as a link; this should (finally) take away any licensing concerns people have expressed, apparently. It's been on the to-do list for a long time (too long) - fixed now! 27 Sep 2010 12:00 Added a Tweet button to the pages, to allow people to post a link to the website with a single click on Twitter. 26 Sep 2010 12:00 Pale Moon 3.6.9 for Athlon XP has been released, with the necessary changes to the site. This build will be discontinued for Pale Moon 4 - it's too time-consuming to compile and update every time, as well as the supported hardware rapidly falling in disuse by now. 18 Sep 2010 12:00 Firefox 3.6.10 has been looked at. The Firefox code base for 3.6.10 has as little as a single line of code in the source changed, that addresses a -potential- instability issue upon startup for Mozilla builds. They pushed the release mostly because of problems they encountered with one specific version of the Personas+ add-on (has been superseded already to fix it), and to update the blocklist for that. It would be a complete waste of everyone's time to build Pale Moon on that code base, that is otherwise exactly the same as 3.6.9, so that version will be skipped. 14 Sep 2010 12:00 Pale Moon 3.6.9 has been released, including the portable version! Of course the necessary updates to the site have been made as well. Also released at the same time are the language packs in all languages that are available for Mozilla Firefox. 07 Sep 2010 17:30 I've started adding Pale Moon specific language packs, to have the UI in other native languages. More will be added as I complete them. So far, prioritized based on the number of users in global regions: Danish, German, U.K. English, Spanish (Spain+Mexico), Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portufuese (Brazil+Portugal) and Swedish. 02 Sep 2010 22:30 Dediplanet is back to the previous hosting setup, prior to moving datacenters. I guess it really didn't work out at the new location. Also: Pale Moon 3.6.8a for Athlon XP has now been released to the public! This version fixes the 3.6.8 problems the main browser was suffering from, as well as reintroducing the automatic update checker, Mozilla style - took some digging, but I finally figured out how to have it check on the correct server, and what it expects to find, to be able to check for updates. 31 Aug 2010 15:45 It seems that after some extended problems with Dediplanet's download links, it is working again. Here's to hoping that these kinds of problems don't happen too often. Still unsure what exactly the issue was. 27 Aug 2010 23:30 Direct download link for the files has changed as per request of the Dediplanet admin. 24 Aug 2010 13:15 Apparently, the hosting server CPU blew - swapped to a new server @ Dediplanet, and it should be working correctly again! 24 Aug 2010 09:30 Seems Dediplanet is having some issues. Any links to Pale Moon downloads hosted there are down. Not sure what is going on there :/ -- The Migration tool is unavailable as well since it was the only location I had it up, but here's an alternate link I threw it at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1466747/Palemoon/support/pmmig.exe 22 Aug 2010 01:00 The direct download link at Dediplanet has moved to a new datacenter - this has caused some downtime for the direct download link, but it's back up now, and on a faster connection: 1Gbit instead of 100 Mbit. 19 Aug 2010 15:00 For the sake of ease, the known issues with the current release of the browser have been moved to a separate page for easy reference and to prevent the need to answer mutiple e-mails about the same thing ;) http://www.palemoon.org/knownissues.shtml 19 Aug 2010 11:00 Pale Moon 3.6.8a has been released! This fixes all known issues (hopefully) that popped up with the recent changes to the browser in 3.6.6/3.6.8 and the resulting installer problems. In tandem, 3.6.8a Portable has also been released. 18 Aug 2010 01:30 Hopefully all of the broken links in the website have now been fixed. In other news, Pale Moon 3.6.8a is currently in tis testing phase; this update should fix a number of know issues like the installer problems and Pale Moon wrongly identifying itself as "appversion" etc. 15 Aug 2010 00:00 The revamped version of the site has been launched! A lot of work went into redesigning all the pages and making navigation better. There are possibly still broken links, but they will be looked at later. 07 Aug 2010 13:37 (yes really) Apparently the version of the updated dev environment I downloaded was a binary with a virus that has snuck into the compiler of it. It has been known by the company and was supposed to be fixed but it seems one of the binaries they have up for download is still an "unclean" version. has been fixed. Fortunately, the virus only affects systems with certain versions of Delphi installed and does nothing more than replicate itself. The virus has no payload and does not infect files other than one specific Delphi component. If you do not have Delphi installed the virus has NO effect. It will however trigger warnings from some anti-virus software. It is likely that the number of anti-virus applications that recognize this virus will increase over time. So contrary to my previous post, version 1.2 of the migration tool is NOT safe! It is infected with "win32/Induc" – I have updated the version of the tool immediately to 1.3, to address this issue. It does not affect the Pale Moon browser or installer of it, only the one version of the migration tool. 07 Aug 2010 13:00 It seems that yesterday, someone tried to hack the feedback form by feeding it a bunch of strings. Of course this didn't result in anything beyond sending a message to my inbox for each attempt (over 100 were made), but because of the security measures in place on my mail server, it blocked a number of requests for mail delivery. It's possible that some genuine feedback messages never arrived. "Acunetix": you fail. cox.net has been notified. 06 Aug 2010 12:00 The profile migration tool apparently gets flagged by several Antivirus Suites as a virus/trojan/worm/joke program. This is a false positive. I'm not sure exactly what triggers this response, as it is a fairly simple program made with Neobook for the sake of (my) ease and doesn't do anything beyond copying one folder to another after checking some paths. 05 Aug 2010 12:00 The profile migration tool has been updated (version 1.2 now). Previously, it would use a batch file to copy the profile folder, but since I upgraded the dev. environment I use for small programs like that I was able to internalize the file system commands. This also means it should run fine now when run directly from the download window of the browser. To be safe, I also added some checks to see if the browser is running and asking the user to close it if so - just to be on the safe side. I'm also working on redesigning the website a little, to have a better navigation menu using IE6 safe CSS (I hope). 01 Aug 2010 16:00 Pale Moon updates can, from now on, also be found on Twitter! 01 Aug 2010 10:00 I've had a look at the installer but it's obviously "grown" and not "built top-down" so the resulting script code isn't that easy to follow. Since the double-install problem is easily fixed by uninstalling the previous version from add/remove programs, without issues, I won't be attempting to add a "directory migration" section to it. Since there are more installer issues, I -might- be looking at moving away from the NSIS installer that has been used so far, and create my own, if there is a way to integrate the superior 7-zip compression into it. 29 July 2010 14:30 Some reports have come in about the installer for pale Moon 3.6.8 being inconsistent/problematic. I will have to have a look at the installer later on. Specifically, upgrading to 3.6.8 causes double entries in the start menu, desktop and registry (pale moon project and pale moon). It is recommended that you uninstall older versions before upgrading to 3.6.8. I will have a look at fixing the installer for the next release. 28 July 2010 13:00 Pale Moon 3.6.8 has been released! This includes updates for Pale Moon Portable and Pale Moon for Athlon XP. 22 July 2010 01:30 A known issue has been found in Pale Moon 3.6.6 - the Add-ons window does not display the add-ons properly that are available for download, and the "Browse all" link sends users to the wrong page at Mozilla. Information about this problem has been added to the Release Notes for 3.6.6. 20 July 2010 18:00 An early release of Pale Moon 3.6.6 slipped out by accident. The installer for this release is incorrect, as one of the users pointed out, and will remove the wrong profile when using the uninstaller supplied with it (Firefox, leaving Pale Moon). For the record, the correct installer (released as of today) is 8,297,476 bytes in size. Any other size, and you have a wrong release. If you used the installer for it, please download and reinstall the correct one, to overwrite the incorrect uninstaller! 19 July 2010 22:30 Pale Moon 3.6.6 has been released! A major update with some significant changes, most importantly the separation from Firefox and using its own location for storing data now. Lots of changes to the site to reflect this, including an extension tot he FAQ and troubleshooting guide. 13 July 2010 14:00 Thanks to the generous offer made by DediPlanet, Pale Moon once again has a direct download link now, no more waiting or ads. Thank you, Chris! 02 July 2010 14:30 The Firefox 3.6.6 code base has been released a number of days ago. Pale Moon will follow suit when there has been sufficient time for building and testing it, but for the third and last time: development is halted for a few weeks due to relocation. Please be patient, folks! :-) There have been some concerns from people who seem to think that the main reason for holding off on a build of Pale Moon 3.6.6 with the new plugin structure has been Mozilla's rapid point releases. It is not -- there simply isn't time to work on Pale Moon at the moment. Once relocation is over with, Pale Moon will recieve attention again, and I will see where we stand at that point in time as far as Mozilla releases of code are concerned. 28 June 2010 08:30 The code base has been updated yet again to solve some showstopper bugs apparently. 3.6.6 now :P I think I'll wait until Mozilla decides it's stable enough to leave it at a certain version before building anything. I'll check again after relocating what they are at at that point in time. 23 June 2010 09:00 A good number of people have already pointed out that Firefox 3.6.4 has been released. Like I said in my previous entry here, development is halted for the moment pending my relocation. 22 June 2010 22:30 Added some more testimonials to the site -- You haven't been forgotten! I appreciate all the feedback so far, although I have to be a little selective what to include on the site. Suffice it to say I'm glad to see so many people enjoy the browser :) Development will be halted for a while as I relocate. If there are new code base releases in the meantime, all you trusty Pale Moon users will have to wait and be patient until I am finished relocating. Future plans for a 3.7 release: A preliminary build of 3.7a4 has proven to be without many issues for the current set of optimizations, so that looks promising. Also, given some time, there will probably be customized Pale Moon language packs available to change the language to your preferred one, instead of having the Firefox packs. More news on that later! 29 May 2010 00:00 Following some communication with the Mozilla Corporation, the "powered by Mozilla" logo has now been added to the home page - Pale Moon should also be added to the list on Mozilla's "powered by" page soon, at URL http://www.mozilla.org/poweredby Always good to have some more links, especially from the company maintaining the codebase releases that Pale Moon is based on ;) 14 May 2010 02:00 Since there suddenly seems to be a problem with the hosting of binaries for the browser, I have been asked to remove the binaries from the main website for download. From now on, only external file hosting services will be available to download the browser. I guess the "popularity" of the browser red-flagged my hosting provider as far as bandwidth goes for the binaries. Ohwell. Sorry folks, you'll have to live with ad-supported file hosting sites from now on. OR USE BITTORRENT. 30 Apr 2010 09:30 Made some additions to the FAQ, related to people having trouble with certain default preferences that cannot be easily set from the preferences dialog box, and require about:config editing. 29 Apr 2010 00:00 Some changes made to the site to remove some backlinks, as well as added yet another statement about side-by-side installations of Pale Moon. Sigh. I will have to look into making a very specific change to the uninstaller for all those people that DON'T READ or even bother to check the webpage of the software they install. 16 Apr 2010 13:00 The rewritten Technical page, including dromaeo stats, has been published, as well as a brand new FAQ for people to look through and have common questions answered. 15 Apr 2010 01:30 The Technical page has been pulled pending a much needed rewrite. I need to make source diffs as things have actually changed in the source for current builds of the browser, include them there, update test results and general information with the changes to to build, etc. etc. -- I'll have to see when I can squeeze that in next to my day job and my art. 09 Apr 2010 13:00 The Athlon XP release of Pale Moon 3.6.3 has been published. I have not been able to test this on as many machines as I would like but I trust it will run fine. 05 Apr 2010 21:00 I've decided to remove the magnet link in the peer-to-peer section. Nobody ever uses it and keeping an app running to seed the gnutella/ed2k networks for it on 2 systems has been a waste of resources. I'll stick purely with BitTorrent from now on. 04 Apr 2010 20:00 Release of Pale Moon 3.6.3, with the necessary changes to the site. Queued up is a release of the Athlon XP version within the next few days. 02 Apr 2010 03:00 The sponsor ads have been removed! Thanks to the revenue I got from them I have now made enough to cover the hosting costs for palemoon.org for a little while. Hosting doesn't take much, so if people are willing to chip in for it with a small donation, the ads never have to return. 31 Mar 2010 00:30 Release of Pale Moon 3.6.2, nothing else shocking. Happy Spring Moon everyone! 21 Mar 2010 14:00 Release of Pale Moon 3.6.1, with the necessary changes to the site. ALSO: The Pale Moon persona is now available with a simple click to be installed, to get you in style completely (if you want). 19 Mar 2010 13:00 We're in the final stages of Pale Moon 3.6.1 with some exciting new features! Testing to be done, otherwise looks like a green board. 27 Feb 2010 16:00 Pale Moon 3.5.8 has been released, with the necessary changes to the site. I've drawn upon the lessons learnt from building 3.6 to give 3.5.8 an extra boost, with a custom fully-optimized runtime library to go along with it. Since this is not the "mainstream" version of Pale Moon, it is mentioned on the main page but the main release build is and will remain a 3.6 one. This will probably be the last version of the 3.5 based browsers that will be built. If 3.6 doesn't work for you for whatever reason (in most cases add-on related) then you should be able to use this for quite a while yet. 11 Feb 2010 21:00 Pale Moon 3.6.0.5 for Athlon XP has been released, with the necessary changes to the site. There was a little less opportunity to actually test this extensively on an Athlon XP machine but what has been tested so far has been without issues. 06 Feb 2010 16:00 Pale Moon 3.6.0.5 has been released, with the necessary changes to the site, of course. I've had a number of prereleases for this one, as I worked out some kinks and tried some different optimizations. The end result being, I think, a major improvement in the areas of the browser that will be used most (networking, rendering, scripting). I know the Athlon XP version is falling behind at the moment, but I wanted to have a stable main release before building the other version. I might also not continue the portable version of Pale Moon the way I've done it so far, but look into using a different method instead with my own loader. 28 Jan 2010 15:30 A lot of work and a full week of testing later, Pale Moon 3.6 has been released (take 2). This also meant a lot of changes to the site to reflect what had to be updated. Time for me to sit back and take a breather.. well, once I'm done with my paying job for today, that is ;) 22 Jan 2010 21:00 More reports of issues, also with the official Mozilla Firefox, and personal testing with Pale Moon 3.6 has made me decide to completely pull the 3.6 version for the time being. I'll be working on trying to fix this severe bug myself until the FF contributors find a more permanent solution to this showstopper bug. It also seems I'd need a more powerful machine if I want to build future versions of Pale Moon - my current hardware is reaching its limits as far as speed/RAM goes for compiling this monster with the options needed for full optimization, or, in some cases, to even build at all. If you have spare hardware, I'll gladly take donations ;) 22 Jan 2010 19:00 Shortly after release of the 3.6 version, it came to light that Pale Moon 3.6 suffers from a major bug that the Firefox 3.6 release code has: The "OMG where are my bookmarks!?" could be heard echoing over the Internet. As a result, I've put up a clear notification on the home page and made sure to have the tried and tested 3.5.6.1 version at the ready in case people have this problem. Your bookmarks are not lost, they are simply not displayed/not accessible. With all the alpha/beta/RC releases I would have seriously expected people to have found this -before- releasing the code as "final release". Since Pale Moon is based on this flawed Firefox code, it also displays this problem. 22 Jan 2010 14:30 Tests have been flawless so far. Pushing the release forward to stay close to Mozilla's release. Athlon XP version is being compiled, portable version will take some more time, as I want to make sure to make it a less spartan and more polished release. WinPenPack's team has not answered to my request for them to take care of a customized release, so I will have to do it myself. 22 Jan 2010 10:00 Pale Moon 3.6 has been compiled and is currently in its testing phase. Stay tuned for updates and the release. 16 Jan 2010 Decided to re-evaluate my need for ads. Since the agent I'm using won't allow me to add ads to the start page (which would be a prime spot) because of lack of link-ins, I'll have to have a look at other advertisement options anyway. Advertisement frame has been added to the home page, above the fold but on the side. I tried a top-of-page position but it simply breaks the site layout too much. Now the waiting is for people to buy space and actually help me recover some of the cash I had to spend to host it. 14 Jan 2010 15:00 I'm not happy about having to do this, but I'm forced to compensate for my expenses by having some ads up on the website. I'll be able to take them back down later on if and when I have made enough to cover the hosting costs, OR if and when people actually offer to donate some money to help me out. It doesn't take much for me to have this page hosted, but it's more than I can currently afford to spend. Every little bit helps! 06 Jan 2010 20:30 Moved some content around on the site, to keep the general information page more concise, and added a section on specific differences between Pale Moon and its origins, Firefox, on the Technical Details page. Examined the newly released Firefox 3.5.7, and found that the grand total of 3 bugfixes/improvements (with only one "real" bug) was definitely not enough reason to consider it for a point release. This version will be skipped. 01 Jan 2010 13:00 Happy New Year to everyone! A slightly delayed update, but the Portable version of Pale Moon has been updated to 3.5.6.1 as well now. 30 Dec 2009 21:00 Today, the website was moved to a dedicated hosting company to be able to handle the traffic. So yes, I've had to dish out money for this project now - I'm pondering if I should try to sell ad space to make up for it or not, although I'd prefer to keep the website ad-free. 26 Dec 2009 23:00 Seems like today, people had nothing better to do than to launch a DoS attack at the web server. Sigh. What the hell is wrong with you people? It's not like there's anything worth-while on here that warrants disrupting the web site with attacks like that. It's Christmas, for crying out loud, too... One has to just wonder: WHY? Jealous about the browser?... 22 Dec 2009 11:30 Updated Pale Moon for Athlon XP to 3.5.6.1 now - Enjoy! 21 Dec 2009 22:30 After getting some help with Regular Expressions, downloading links are once again back to straight URLs and no longer routed through a PHP script that I had put in place to prevent hotlinking on the main site. A big thanks to the people putting up easy to understand and properly explained information pages about using mod_rewrite in Apache to do this internally in the server! It's a pity that I even have to go through these steps to prevent external sites from directly linking to the installers, but it seems quite a number of what are supposed to be "software archives" just have a system in place that, to the average user, pretends to host the download, but instead just redirect people's browsers to the official homepages of software. Some even offering "premium downloads" this way. Shame on you! 21 Dec 2009 02:30 A minor update to create 3.5.6.1 - I would normally not release point versions like this, but it seems the solution for pages failing to load is definitely something that makes this warranted. 20 Dec 2009 22:30 Added a troubleshooting page for some problems people have indicated when using Pale Moon. 20 Dec 2009 14:00 The site has been updated to reflect the needed changes for 3.5.6 - as well as moving some content to different pages. 04 Dec 2009 12:00 Since so many people asked about releasing a 3.6 beta, I've spent several hours messing with code and compiling things to make a 3.6 beta Pale Moon. Preliminary tests are OK, so I dropped it on the site, but I want to make absolutely clear that this is not a real release for Pale Moon. It's an experimental build, and I certainly won't use it as my main browser. 03 Dec 2009 19:15 OK, I give up :P If it's not one thing, it's another - the new free hosting had an option for "type of site" being "software/download", so it would be clear to the hosting company what kind of files would be hosted there... And then it turns out that installers, programs and other executables are immediately removed upon upload, even zipped. What is the f-ing point? I will not put any more time and energy into actually providing a full-blown mirror site and maintaining it, instead I will look into more file hosting alternatives. Just wasted 2 days messing with and adapting html and php for naught, that's enough. 03 Dec 2009 17:00 After another full day of trying to contact Hostecs to see if I could get a reasonable (or any, for that matter) answer out of them as to what happened to the hosting and customer account used for the Pale Moon mirror site, it's become clear they have no intention on giving me a response about the matter. Extremely unprofessional, and if this is any indication about their service, I would strongly discourage anyone to get an account there. They just lost a potential paying customer by doing this, and have earned themselves a scolding review on some sites comparing hosting packages. I have since signed up with a new hosting provider to have a mirror site up, as I still can't afford to use my poor DSL for the world downloading Pale Moon, and I can't afford to pay for proper professional hosting - let's hope this one gets a better track record! 02 Dec 2009 13:50 First news entry on this page - unfortunately bad news immediately: Hostecs, who has provided me with a mirror space for this web site, has taken it upon themselves to cancel my hosting account as, well as, by the looks of it, my user account. No explanation, no reason given, no warning... So, for the time being, I will have to change the main site and PAD to reflect this, while I wait for an answer from them. [<-- Back]
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Pale Moon: Site News

28 Jan 2012

An update to Pale Moon 3.6.x. has been released today, making it 3.6.29, which fixes some security and stability issues for this tried and tested browser branch.

24 Jan 2012

Pale Moon 9.1 has been released. This includes all versions: 32-bit and 64-bit, desktop and portable.
Pale Moon 9.1 is a bugfix release, addressing security, stability and functional issues, incorporating code from Firefox 10. There will be no Pale Moon v10! The next major release will be version 11, scheduled for March.

18 Jan 2012

Today, for one day, the website has been blacked out in protest against the proposed PIPA and SOPA legislations in the United States and similar proposed laws in the rest of the world, violating freedom of speech and paving the way for unbridled and arbitrary censorship on the Internet.

09 Jan 2012

After some delays, Pale Moon 9.0.1 has been released. Version 9.0 remains unpublished due to its performance issues. This includes all versions: 32-bit, 64-bit and Portable versions of both releases.

17 Nov 2011

Pale Moon 3.6.27 has been released, which fixes several security issues and a major performance issue.

14 Nov 2011

Pale Moon 8.0 has been released today!
This is a major update building on the Firefox 8.0 code base, with additional improvements to make browsing faster and smoother overall. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are released in tandem.

Also some minor updates of the style on the web page, to improve readability on most screens.

29 Oct 2011

Pale Moon 3.6.26 has been released, which is a minor update to address issues with Asian fonts.

The Portable versions have been updated to incorporate compacting techniques so they take less space on your stick (and will inherently load faster from slow media):

Pale Moon Portable 3.6.26a takes 42% less space when installed than 3.6.26
Pale Moon Portable 7.0.1a takes 50% less space when installed than 7.0.1

This compression is currently not yet possible for 64-bit, so the x64 portable will remain unchanged.

20 Oct 2011

A portable version of Pale Moon 7.0.1-x64 has been created. This includes a new 64-bit launcher for the portable browser (which has been the hangup until now).
Also, a new mirror has been added in a few locations, on donated space of one of the beta testers. Thanks for that!

19 Oct 2011

Pale Moon 7.0.1-x64 (64-bit) has been released. This addresses a few smaller performance issues - more are in the works, but hampered by the instability of the Microsoft Visual C compiler (it keeps crashing when building).

07 Oct 2011

Pale Moon 7.0.1 has been released, and update to address a performance issue.

01 Oct 2011

Pale Moon 7.0 has been released -- a new major release based on the Firefox 7.0.1 release code.
Pale Moon 3.6.24 has been released -- this version incorporates a number of security updates to the browser.

21 Sep 2011

Pale Moon 3.6.23 has been released -- this is the first version that combines the SSE and SSE2 builds as stated in the previous news entry.

13 Sep 2011

There will be an important change in the release framework for Pale Moon 3.6.x. Some serious thought has gone into this decision and I feel it is the right time to simplify things.

Starting with the next release, the version 3.6.x branch of Pale Moon will see a unification of the two versions currently being released, and making all releases of that version of the browser SSE builds.
This means that work will be more focused on fewer releases, and it will be less confusing for Pale Moon users to decide which build they need for themselves.

Reasoning:

Part of the reason for this is that, with the current releases of 6.0.2 and the preliminary work on 7.x, the disadvantages of the code for Windows XP users are being mitigated and stability is being improved for those platforms, making the move to the next generation browser also on that platform more and more recommended.
Another part is the fact that the distribution of v3.6.x sees a dwindling number of users using it on more modern hardware, judging by some global metrics at my disposal. This makes the effort of maintaining a double release for this branch lay too much claim on limited time and resources.
Instead of discontinuing the Athlon XP version (which would be the other option, since it has a vastly smaller number of current users) I decided to keep as broad as possible support for hardware in this branch without compromising too much. The branch will run on Windows 2000 and up (as opposed to 6.x XP SP2 and up) and on P-III/AthlonXP and up (as opposed to 6.x Athlon64/P4 and up) - An older browser for older hardware/O.S., a better match for it.

Going from SSE2 to SSE for the current 3.6.x builds will see a small loss of performance in that branch, as a drawback; in effect they will all become "Athlon XP" builds.

So, the advantages:

Simpler choice for users of Pale Moon
Version 3.6.x will be one release, running from Athlon XP/P-III upwards
Better focus on fewer release builds
Streamlining of the web installer and download options
3.6.x will continue to be developed and maintained for people needing this version of the browser

Disadvantages:

Only one, a minor loss of performance in the 3.6.x branch. If performance is an issue for you, consider moving to the 6.x version of the browser.

I hope you all understand the step taken here and see the logic behind it.

If you have any concerns about this, feel free to make use of the forum to chat with other users or direct your questions towards me.

10 Sep 2011

Today is the twin release date of Pale Moon 3.6.22 and 6.0.2!

Also, the web site sees a few changes:

MD5 checksums are no longer listed for integrity checks. If your download manager or integrity checker doesn't support SHA-1 yet, you should switch! MD5 is by now an ancient alogrhythm that has some severe flaws, and should no longer be relied upon.
I will be phasing out the use of BitTorrent from the main site. Running a seed box for the few people actually using it is a total waste of resources. Bittorrent-only links (most notably, the source code) will be converted to either FTP or HTTP and hosted where possible in the cloud from now on.
A cosmetic change to better reflect the AthlonXP builds. They will be called SSE builds from now on.

07 Sep 2011

There was a really odd problem with DNS lookups due to a connection glitch with the ISP the master DNS server is on for palemoon.org.

This has been fixed now, but it means the forum, start page and web page may have had "host not found" errors for a while.
Hopefully this won't happen again. If it does, I'll have to look into rehoming the master DNS server to somewhere that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg to operate.

31 Aug 2011

In response to the DigiNotar compromised CA certificate, Pale Moon will not be releasing an update to the browser for the sole purpose of removing a certificate from its built-in storage. More information on the forum: http://bit.ly/rr20Y1

29 Aug 2011

Pale Moon now has an official forum site: http://forum.palemoon.org/

25 Aug 2011

The Pale Moon start page was changed again to completely host on a high capacity server now - thanks to Sity hosting once again for helping the Pale Moon project out with bandwidth. The news page is located at http://start.palemoon.org/ but the website will automatically forward you to it to not break with current defaults.

24 Aug 2011

The Pale Moon start page was changed to externalize its graphic files (using imageshack instead) - the web hoster for www.palemoon.org seems to have trouble handling the traffic of the many hits to the page with a lot of small files in it. This change should make the start page a lot more speedy to load.

23 Aug 2011

Pale Moon 6.0 has been released! Desktop, Portable and x64 (64-bit) versions of the browser are now available.

15 Aug 2011

I've made a start to display Google AdSense ads on the Pale Moon start page. I hate to resort to this but the few and far between donations for the browser don't cover my costs for hosting the site, even with the low rate I pay for it. The ads may not be very relevant for the time being, since the ads are still "training" for content.

13 Aug 2011

The Athlon XP (SSE) version of Pale Moon 3.6.20 has been released.
Work has started on Pale Moon 6.0, for which the source code has been finalized at Mozilla.

10 Aug 2011

Pale Moon 3.6.20 has been released. This is a minor update to the 3.6 series of browsers.

29 Jul 2011

As of today, the website has been moved back to its original hosting machine. Unfortunately I wasn't notified beforehand with sufficient margin so the site (including the start page) has been unavailable due to latent DNS updates for a little while.

20 Jul 2011

Yesterday, the web server machine hosting www.palemoon.org and a number of related sites suffered a catastrophic hardware failure. The website has been unavailable for a little over a day because of that. This also impacted the web installer and updates to the browser.
The web hosting company has been working to move the accounts to a different machine, which has been completed. the DNS update with the new IP address shouldn't take long which will see the site fully accessible again world-wide.

14 Jul 2011

Mozilla has released 3.6.19 and 5.0.1 which incorporate MacOS specific workarounds for MacOS specific bugs. These versions will be skipped as they don't apply to Pale Moon (being Windows only, Mac OS is not a supported platform).

25 Jun 2011

Pale Moon 5.0 has been released! Desktop, portable and x64 have been released.
Some important things to note with this release:

Pale Moon 4.x will be completely discontinued - no further updates beyond 4.0.7.
If you like the next generation browser you have had in 4.x, then 5.0 is the way to go.
Pale Moon 3.6 will continue to be developed and supported. Consider 3.x and 4/5 to be two separate and independent products.
The portable versions of browsers, from now on, will no longer be supplied as a .zip file, but rather as a self-extracting (and smaller) archive. Run the .exe and tell it where to unpack, and there you go!

20 Jun 2011

Pale Moon 3.6.18 has been released! Desktop & Portable, Regular and AthlonXP versions.

19 Jun 2011

The website server is having technical difficulties. The web hosting provider is working on getting this resolved ASAP.

04 Jun 2011

The PHP download script borked yet again today, so I've tossed it out. Working links is more important than my personal desire for statistics.

02 Jun 2011

Pale Moon 3.6.17 has been released! This includes Desktop and Portable Regular and Athlon XP versions.

01 Jun 2011

Apparently, the PHP download script borked today, wiping out ALL the download links. I'm not sure what happened, but I'll make sure to keep a backup of the storage file with the links and IDs from now on. :/

30 May 2011

Pale Moon 4.0.7 has been released today - Destop/Portable/x64 versions are released simultaneously.

09 May 2011

Pale Moon 4.0.6 has been released. This marks an update to the underlying Firefox source code, fixing a large number of bugs, as well as some Pale Moon specific updates.

In development news: I am currently looking at possibly switching over to Visual Studio 2010, but ran into one showstopper problem: it will not allow the C runtime libraries to be rebuilt with optimizations. The overall performance of the browser increases using the new compiler, but at the same time any data handling and memory intensive processes from the browser take such a large performance hit it has been unacceptable to use; in addition, it will prevent older operating systems (pre XP with SP2) from being used. Microsoft has "blackboxed" part of the code development there and it is up to them to release the required scripts and binaries to allow private CRTs to once again be built.

Development on Pale Moon will also be halted for a little while as international travel will commence soon.

01 May 2011

A small update has been made to the installer of the 64-bit version of Pale Moon (4.0.5-x64) to fix a compatibility issue with Windows XP x64. Previously, the installer would not allow installation on this O.S., even if the browser would be fine running on it! This update is for the installer only, and does not affect the browser, so no need to worry if you already have this version installed.

23 Apr 2011

The main problems with building an x64 version seem to finally have been overcome, and as such, the 4.0.5-x64 version has been released today!

13 Apr 2011

Pale Moon 4.0.5 has been released, addressing a number of different bugs.

08 Apr 2011

An update to Pale Moon 4 has been released, to address a nasty crash bug in print preview/printing, as well as provide a few other fixes and improvements.

03 Apr 2011

It was brought to my attention (thanks, Henry!) that the website would not display correctly if a default font size in options was set to anything but the standard 16pt. It would actually make the menu mess up and not be fully navigable -- This has now been corrected, and www.palemoon.org should display as-designed.

01 Apr 2011

The x64 (64-bit) version of Pale Moon 4.0 has been released today.

30 Mar 2011

The language packs have been released for Pale Moon 4.0 - Three languages are not available, because the equivalent packs for Firefox are not available either (which they are based on). The languages involved are not major, so it's not a big issue.

Then, what cost most of today: x64 builds.
As it turns out, the Microsoft Visual C compiler is horribly broken when targeting a 64-bit platform with a complex piece of software. It throws "Internal compiler errors" and simply breaks down when compiling with whole program optimization (which is essential for Pale Moon's performance). Bugs have been filed at Microsoft for this like 101287 and a few others which have all been closed as "fixed" or "by design" but having no solution posted or patch reference (i.e.: they were put under the big Microsoft rock, in the mud). Other people when optimizing have apparently run into the same problem on Mozilla code like on Thunderbird.
The solution: disabling PGO and even removing /GL entirely -- this produces stable builds. However, performance of those builds is abysmal compared to 32-bit versions. Performance would be the only plus point of running a native 64 build instead of a 32-bit build, everything else would be a trade-off (like lacking proper Flash and other plugin support).
Alternative solution: Get VS 2008 SP1 (full version) - Not something easily funded, and no guarantees that this will fix the issue straight-up, either. The free "Express" version doesn't allow for the use of jemalloc (custom-built CRT) which will also impact performance, doesn't support PGO, and has a few other limitations not easily overcome.

What does this mean for Pale Moon?
No official releases for x64 for a while yet, until this issue can be solved somehow. Some experimental builds may be released in the [Dev] section, but they will be and remain experimental for the time being, and for the tech-savvy only.

28 Mar 2011

A major update to the website to incorporate (almost) everything needed for version 4.0 of the browser, released today!
This release will be staged - things like language packs and updates to the Pale Moon tools will be handled later.

26 Mar 2011

* Pale Moon 4.0 is in its final stages of testing. Expect a release next week somewhere (if I don't get swamped with work).

* 3.6.16 has been looked at and will be skipped. The reason is that this deals with a rather dirty hack in a non-structured way in one of the modules to patch up a condition that is extremely unlikely to occur. Next to this hack, there are no changes from 3.6.15! Notable quotes from the bug filed for this:

Comodo: "A long-term trusted partner of Comodo which has an RA function suffered an internal security breach
and the attacker caused 7 certificates to be issued." The bogus certs were revoked within hours.

"... can prevent the victim from contacting the OSCP responder ..."
(meaning it is only an issue if you cannot check the certificate online - extremely unlikely since the attacker would need to have the certificates as well as control over your local network)

"Filed bug 642503 on moving a more generic version of this blacklist functionality into NSS proper for a future version."
(the current patch is injecting code in the connection module. not pretty and a dirty hack)

Comodo: "We have analysed our OCSP responder logs and we see no evidence of any of these certificates having seen traffic in the wild other than 2 hits from the attacker himself (from the already mentioned 212.95.136.18 and the almost adjacent 212.95.136.20) and also hits from Comodo staff testing and from Microsoft, Google, and (we think) Mozilla staff testing.

The earliest OCSP hit we see is at 15/Mar/2011:21:39:43 UTC, which is after the latest revocation - which was at 20:19 UTC."
(i.e.: no need to panic - the gravity of the principle of these certificates being issued is severe, but there is no practical threat.)

04 Mar 2011

Just after releasing .14 and getting everything set, I can go back to building, as someone made a big mistake in the plugin handler code for the browser. Expect 3.6.15 to be released before the weekend is out!

If you are having crucial problems with java applets not working and you NEED this functionality NOW, then please download the previous version (3.6.13) and run on that until .15 is out: 3.6.13 Installer

04 Mar 2011

Pale Moon 3.6.14 is released to the public. Regular/portable/AthlonXP versions in one go.

At the same time, work has started on a planned web-installer (on-line installer) package for future releases. This should eliminate the need for people to use trial-and-error if they don't know their processor's capabilities, and offer to download the appropriate version for their system automatically, as well as offering the choice between version 3 and 4 when released.

28 Jan 2011

Pale Moon 4.0 development has been picked up again, and now has a dedicated information page about the development of the browser. http://www.palemoon.org/pm4-dev.shtml

12 Dec 2010

Pale Moon 3.6.13 has been released. This has been the maiden task for the new build machine: an IBM Thinkcentre with P4, 2GB of RAM and a quiet WD Serial ATA drive. A sturdy, heavy black metal desktop box that I think will serve me for some time to come! Thanks go to all the donators who have made this possible - every little bit helps!

I'm also looking into better structuring this news page and potentially setting up an RSS or Atom feed for people to more easily keep up with news. Twitter is OK for very brief statuses but I tend to have more to say than can be fit in 140 characters.

03 Nov 2010 00:30

Pale Moon 3.6.12 for Athlon XP is now available. Installer, zip, and (new this version) a pre-packaged Portable version as well.

01 Nov 2010 12:00

With the announcement of Mozilla planning the first release candidate of Firefox 4 no sooner than early 2011, development on this branch for Pale Moon has been put on ice for the time being.
Beta 6 proving to be as unstable as it is, and obviously full of problems and constantly changing features in the branch, it will be a waste of time to do more preliminary work based on it for Pale Moon until the community has settled on both a feature set and a stable core for the next major version of this browser.

Pale Moon 4.0 will probably remain on hold until either the final stages of RCs or until a final release has been made public by the Mozilla Corporation - after which, time will be spent developing Pale Moon on (near-)release code to provide a hopefully stable and efficient release after thorough testing. This will take time.

In the meantime, full focus will be on the current branch releases of 3.6.x

28 Oct 2010 20:00

A manual patch of the browser source was used to address a critical security vulnerability that pushed Mozilla to release Firefox 3.6.12 today. This vulnerability is severe enough (and actively exploited in the wild) to provide a 0-day rebuild of Pale Moon with this exploit vulnerability fixed. (Don't ask me how I squeezed it in on this otherwise full day.)
There may be a slight performance trade-off for this patch (if not countered by the manual profiling done for this version), but that will be addressed in a later release if it's severe enough.

28 Oct 2010 00:30

To protect people's privacy with the increasing popularity of the browser, the decision was made to no longer include e-mail addresses with the testimonials. If you do wish to submit a testimonial, please do include a mention of either your full name or unique handle, and your city/country, otherwise your submission will be discarded. There are too many people named Chris, John, or Joe in the world to include with just a first name...

27 Oct 2010 09:00

Apparently, there have been a few sites hosting corrupted installers on the release date. For some reason, some download sites had already updated the file even before it was completely distributed on the main download mirrors; the source of this corrupt installer is being investigated, but it will not install due to 7-zip's internal CRC check and give an error.
A few major sites with corrupted downloads have been notified of the problem and have fixed it, but it is unknown how many other unofficial mirroring sites are still suffering from incorrect installers - make sure to check the MD5 checksum (if you can) of your downloads to make sure you have a correct, non-corrupted installer!

It is, at all times, recommended to download software directly from the author's website, for any software. In case of doubt, download a fresh copy from palemoon.org.

26 Oct 2010 14:00

Pale Moon 3.6.11 has been released! Please check the release notes to see what has changed.
Pale Moon and Pale Moon Portable have been updated at this point in time, the Athlon XP version will follow later.

Also: Continued problems with Dediplanet and unavailability at this time of release has forced me to scrap them as a main download mirror. As usual, Depositfiles and Divshare are available as alternatives, next to the new main mirror at Sity hosting.
Unfortunately, getting a commercial download server for this project is not a viable option, as there is no budget for such a thing.

22 Oct 2010 21:30

Thanks to

Pale Moon now has a new main download mirror.

22 Oct 2010 10:30

Pale Moon 3.6.11 is in the works, and will be released when there has been sufficient free time to implement required changes and to build and test the browser.

11 Oct 2010 08:30

It's been a year now since Pale Moon has been launched - Happy anniversary to me!

Looking back, a lot has changed in the past year:

2 major changes in the browser and environment. Going from 3.5 to 3.6 was the biggest step, needing a complete rework of the environment. Then another larger change with 3.6.6 and the separation from Firefox (as well as under-the-hood changes)
Additions of Pale Moon Portable and Pale Moon for Athlon XP next to the regular browser, by popular demand.
Hosting changes: the website and downloads were initially hosted privately, but it soon became clear that this wouldn't be possible with the growing popularity, especially after the article posted on LifeHacker. The website was moved to a dedicated hosting site at JustHost and after that, DediPlanet kindly offered to provide the main download mirror for the browser binaries.
A redesign of the website to take advantage of more advanced HTML/CSS features.
A few betas, including betas for Pale Moon 4, were made public.
A lot of individual e-mail support, addition of a Twitter account next to the mailing list, and more...

Looking forward, Pale Moon 4.0 is the next large step to be taken, and hopefully people will continue to enjoy it as much as they seem to have so far!

30 Sep 2010 10:30

Made some changes to the technical page, to include relevant changed source files as a link; this should (finally) take away any licensing concerns people have expressed, apparently. It's been on the to-do list for a long time (too long) - fixed now!

27 Sep 2010 12:00

Added a Tweet button to the pages, to allow people to post a link to the website with a single click on Twitter.

26 Sep 2010 12:00

Pale Moon 3.6.9 for Athlon XP has been released, with the necessary changes to the site. This build will be discontinued for Pale Moon 4 - it's too time-consuming to compile and update every time, as well as the supported hardware rapidly falling in disuse by now.

18 Sep 2010 12:00

Firefox 3.6.10 has been looked at. The Firefox code base for 3.6.10 has as little as a single line of code in the source changed, that addresses a -potential- instability issue upon startup for Mozilla builds. They pushed the release mostly because of
problems they encountered with one specific version of the Personas+ add-on (has been superseded already to fix it), and to update the blocklist for that.

It would be a complete waste of everyone's time to build Pale Moon on that code base, that is otherwise exactly the same as 3.6.9, so that version will be skipped.

14 Sep 2010 12:00

Pale Moon 3.6.9 has been released, including the portable version! Of course the necessary updates to the site have been made as well.
Also released at the same time are the language packs in all languages that are available for Mozilla Firefox.

07 Sep 2010 17:30

I've started adding Pale Moon specific language packs, to have the UI in other native languages. More will be added as I complete them. So far, prioritized based on the number of users in global regions: Danish, German, U.K. English, Spanish (Spain+Mexico), Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portufuese (Brazil+Portugal) and Swedish.

02 Sep 2010 22:30

Dediplanet is back to the previous hosting setup, prior to moving datacenters. I guess it really didn't work out at the new location.

Also: Pale Moon 3.6.8a for Athlon XP has now been released to the public! This version fixes the 3.6.8 problems the main browser was suffering from, as well as reintroducing the automatic update checker, Mozilla style - took some digging, but I finally figured out how to have it check on the correct server, and what it expects to find, to be able to check for updates.

31 Aug 2010 15:45

It seems that after some extended problems with Dediplanet's download links, it is working again. Here's to hoping that these kinds of problems don't happen too often. Still unsure what exactly the issue was.

27 Aug 2010 23:30

Direct download link for the files has changed as per request of the Dediplanet admin.

24 Aug 2010 13:15

Apparently, the hosting server CPU blew - swapped to a new server @ Dediplanet, and it should be working correctly again!

24 Aug 2010 09:30

Seems Dediplanet is having some issues. Any links to Pale Moon downloads hosted there are down. Not sure what is going on there :/ -- The Migration tool is unavailable as well since it was the only location I had it up, but here's an alternate link I threw it at:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1466747/Palemoon/support/pmmig.exe

22 Aug 2010 01:00

The direct download link at Dediplanet has moved to a new datacenter - this has caused some downtime for the direct download link, but it's back up now, and on a faster connection: 1Gbit instead of 100 Mbit.

19 Aug 2010 15:00

For the sake of ease, the known issues with the current release of the browser have been moved to a separate page for easy reference and to prevent the need to answer mutiple e-mails about the same thing ;)
http://www.palemoon.org/knownissues.shtml

19 Aug 2010 11:00

Pale Moon 3.6.8a has been released! This fixes all known issues (hopefully) that popped up with the recent changes to the browser in 3.6.6/3.6.8 and the resulting installer problems. In tandem, 3.6.8a Portable has also been released.

18 Aug 2010 01:30

Hopefully all of the broken links in the website have now been fixed.
In other news, Pale Moon 3.6.8a is currently in tis testing phase; this update should fix a number of know issues like the installer problems and Pale Moon wrongly identifying itself as "appversion" etc.

15 Aug 2010 00:00

The revamped version of the site has been launched! A lot of work went into redesigning all the pages and making navigation better. There are possibly still broken links, but they will be looked at later.

07 Aug 2010 13:37 (yes really)

Apparently the version of the updated dev environment I downloaded was a binary with a virus that has snuck into the compiler of it. It has been known by the company and was supposed to be fixed but it seems one of the binaries they have up for download is still an "unclean" version. has been fixed.

Fortunately, the virus only affects systems with certain versions of Delphi installed and does nothing more than replicate itself. The virus has no payload and does not infect files other than one specific Delphi component. If you do not have Delphi installed the virus has NO effect. It will however trigger warnings from some anti-virus software. It is likely that the number of anti-virus applications that recognize this virus will increase over time.

So contrary to my previous post, version 1.2 of the migration tool is NOT safe! It is infected with "win32/Induc" – I have updated the version of the tool immediately to 1.3, to address this issue. It does not affect the Pale Moon browser or installer of it, only the one version of the migration tool.

07 Aug 2010 13:00

It seems that yesterday, someone tried to hack the feedback form by feeding it a bunch of strings. Of course this didn't result in anything beyond sending a message to my inbox for each attempt (over 100 were made), but because of the security measures in place on my mail server, it blocked a number of requests for mail delivery. It's possible that some genuine feedback messages never arrived.
"Acunetix": you fail. cox.net has been notified.

06 Aug 2010 12:00

The profile migration tool apparently gets flagged by several Antivirus Suites as a virus/trojan/worm/joke program.
This is a false positive. I'm not sure exactly what triggers this response, as it is a fairly simple program made with Neobook for the sake of (my) ease and doesn't do anything beyond copying one folder to another after checking some paths.

05 Aug 2010 12:00

The profile migration tool has been updated (version 1.2 now). Previously, it would use a batch file to copy the profile folder, but since I upgraded the dev. environment I use for small programs like that I was able to internalize the file system commands. This also means it should run fine now when run directly from the download window of the browser.

To be safe, I also added some checks to see if the browser is running and asking the user to close it if so - just to be on the safe side.

I'm also working on redesigning the website a little, to have a better navigation menu using IE6 safe CSS (I hope).

01 Aug 2010 16:00

Pale Moon updates can, from now on, also be found on Twitter!

01 Aug 2010 10:00

I've had a look at the installer but it's obviously "grown" and not "built top-down" so the resulting script code isn't that easy to follow. Since the double-install problem is easily fixed by uninstalling the previous version from add/remove programs, without issues, I won't be attempting to add a "directory migration" section to it.
Since there are more installer issues, I -might- be looking at moving away from the NSIS installer that has been used so far, and create my own, if there is a way to integrate the superior 7-zip compression into it.

29 July 2010 14:30

Some reports have come in about the installer for pale Moon 3.6.8 being inconsistent/problematic. I will have to have a look at the installer later on. Specifically, upgrading to 3.6.8 causes double entries in the start menu, desktop and registry (pale moon project and pale moon). It is recommended that you uninstall older versions before upgrading to 3.6.8. I will have a look at fixing the installer for the next release.

28 July 2010 13:00

Pale Moon 3.6.8 has been released! This includes updates for Pale Moon Portable and Pale Moon for Athlon XP.

22 July 2010 01:30

A known issue has been found in Pale Moon 3.6.6 - the Add-ons window does not display the add-ons properly that are available for download, and the "Browse all" link sends users to the wrong page at Mozilla. Information about this problem has been added to the Release Notes for 3.6.6.

20 July 2010 18:00

An early release of Pale Moon 3.6.6 slipped out by accident. The installer for this release is incorrect, as one of the users pointed out, and will remove the wrong profile when using the uninstaller supplied with it (Firefox, leaving Pale Moon).
For the record, the correct installer (released as of today) is 8,297,476 bytes in size. Any other size, and you have a wrong release. If you used the installer for it, please download and reinstall the correct one, to overwrite the incorrect uninstaller!

19 July 2010 22:30

Pale Moon 3.6.6 has been released! A major update with some significant changes, most importantly the separation from Firefox and using its own location for storing data now. Lots of changes to the site to reflect this, including an extension tot he FAQ and troubleshooting guide.

13 July 2010 14:00

Thanks to the generous offer made by DediPlanet, Pale Moon once again has a direct download link now, no more waiting or ads.
Thank you, Chris!

02 July 2010 14:30

The Firefox 3.6.6 code base has been released a number of days ago. Pale Moon will follow suit when there has been sufficient time for building and testing it, but for the third and last time: development is halted for a few weeks due to relocation. Please be patient, folks! :-)

There have been some concerns from people who seem to think that the main reason for holding off on a build of Pale Moon 3.6.6 with the new plugin structure has been Mozilla's rapid point releases. It is not -- there simply isn't time to work on Pale Moon at the moment. Once relocation is over with, Pale Moon will recieve attention again, and I will see where we stand at that point in time as far as Mozilla releases of code are concerned.

28 June 2010 08:30

The code base has been updated yet again to solve some showstopper bugs apparently. 3.6.6 now :P I think I'll wait until Mozilla decides it's stable enough to leave it at a certain version before building anything. I'll check again after relocating what they are at at that point in time.

23 June 2010 09:00

A good number of people have already pointed out that Firefox 3.6.4 has been released. Like I said in my previous entry here, development is halted for the moment pending my relocation.

22 June 2010 22:30

Added some more testimonials to the site -- You haven't been forgotten! I appreciate all the feedback so far, although I have to be a little selective what to include on the site. Suffice it to say I'm glad to see so many people enjoy the browser :)
Development will be halted for a while as I relocate. If there are new code base releases in the meantime, all you trusty Pale Moon users will have to wait and be patient until I am finished relocating.

Future plans for a 3.7 release: A preliminary build of 3.7a4 has proven to be without many issues for the current set of optimizations, so that looks promising. Also, given some time, there will probably be customized Pale Moon language packs available to change the language to your preferred one, instead of having the Firefox packs. More news on that later!

29 May 2010 00:00

Following some communication with the Mozilla Corporation, the "powered by Mozilla" logo has now been added to the home page - Pale Moon should also be added to the list on Mozilla's "powered by" page soon, at URL http://www.mozilla.org/poweredby

Always good to have some more links, especially from the company maintaining the codebase releases that Pale Moon is based on ;)

14 May 2010 02:00

Since there suddenly seems to be a problem with the hosting of binaries for the browser, I have been asked to remove the binaries from the main website for download. From now on, only external file hosting services will be available to download the browser. I guess the "popularity" of the browser red-flagged my hosting provider as far as bandwidth goes for the binaries. Ohwell. Sorry folks, you'll have to live with ad-supported file hosting sites from now on.
OR USE BITTORRENT.

30 Apr 2010 09:30

Made some additions to the FAQ, related to people having trouble with certain default preferences that cannot be easily set from the preferences dialog box, and require about:config editing.

29 Apr 2010 00:00

Some changes made to the site to remove some backlinks, as well as added yet another statement about side-by-side installations of Pale Moon. Sigh. I will have to look into making a very specific change to the uninstaller for all those people that DON'T READ or even bother to check the webpage of the software they install.

16 Apr 2010 13:00

The rewritten Technical page, including dromaeo stats, has been published, as well as a brand new FAQ for people to look through and have common questions answered.

15 Apr 2010 01:30

The Technical page has been pulled pending a much needed rewrite. I need to make source diffs as things have actually changed in the source for current builds of the browser, include them there, update test results and general information with the changes to to build, etc. etc. -- I'll have to see when I can squeeze that in next to my day job and my art.

09 Apr 2010 13:00

The Athlon XP release of Pale Moon 3.6.3 has been published. I have not been able to test this on as many machines as I would like but I trust it will run fine.

05 Apr 2010 21:00

I've decided to remove the magnet link in the peer-to-peer section. Nobody ever uses it and keeping an app running to seed the gnutella/ed2k networks for it on 2 systems has been a waste of resources. I'll stick purely with BitTorrent from now on.

04 Apr 2010 20:00

Release of Pale Moon 3.6.3, with the necessary changes to the site.
Queued up is a release of the Athlon XP version within the next few days.

02 Apr 2010 03:00

The sponsor ads have been removed! Thanks to the revenue I got from them I have now made enough to cover the hosting costs for palemoon.org for a little while. Hosting doesn't take much, so if people are willing to chip in for it with a small donation, the ads never have to return.

31 Mar 2010 00:30

Release of Pale Moon 3.6.2, nothing else shocking. Happy Spring Moon everyone!

21 Mar 2010 14:00

Release of Pale Moon 3.6.1, with the necessary changes to the site. ALSO: The Pale Moon persona is now available with a simple click to be installed, to get you in style completely (if you want).

19 Mar 2010 13:00

We're in the final stages of Pale Moon 3.6.1 with some exciting new features! Testing to be done, otherwise looks like a green board.

27 Feb 2010 16:00

Pale Moon 3.5.8 has been released, with the necessary changes to the site. I've drawn upon the lessons learnt from building 3.6 to give 3.5.8 an extra boost, with a custom fully-optimized runtime library to go along with it. Since this is not the "mainstream" version of Pale Moon, it is mentioned on the main page but the main release build is and will remain a 3.6 one. This will probably be the last version of the 3.5 based browsers that will be built. If 3.6 doesn't work for you for whatever reason (in most cases add-on related) then you should be able to use this for quite a while yet.

11 Feb 2010 21:00

Pale Moon 3.6.0.5 for Athlon XP has been released, with the necessary changes to the site. There was a little less opportunity to actually test this extensively on an Athlon XP machine but what has been tested so far has been without issues.

06 Feb 2010 16:00

Pale Moon 3.6.0.5 has been released, with the necessary changes to the site, of course.
I've had a number of prereleases for this one, as I worked out some kinks and tried some different optimizations. The end result being, I think, a major improvement in the areas of the browser that will be used most (networking, rendering, scripting). I know the Athlon XP version is falling behind at the moment, but I wanted to have a stable main release before building the other version. I might also not continue the portable version of Pale Moon the way I've done it so far, but look into using a different method instead with my own loader.

28 Jan 2010 15:30

A lot of work and a full week of testing later, Pale Moon 3.6 has been released (take 2). This also meant a lot of changes to the site to reflect what had to be updated. Time for me to sit back and take a breather.. well, once I'm done with my paying job for today, that is ;)

22 Jan 2010 21:00

More reports of issues, also with the official Mozilla Firefox, and personal testing with Pale Moon 3.6 has made me decide to completely pull the 3.6 version for the time being. I'll be working on trying to fix this severe bug myself until the FF contributors find a more permanent solution to this showstopper bug.
It also seems I'd need a more powerful machine if I want to build future versions of Pale Moon - my current hardware is reaching its limits as far as speed/RAM goes for compiling this monster with the options needed for full optimization, or, in some cases, to even build at all.
If you have spare hardware, I'll gladly take donations ;)

22 Jan 2010 19:00

Shortly after release of the 3.6 version, it came to light that Pale Moon 3.6 suffers from a major bug that the Firefox 3.6 release code has: The "OMG where are my bookmarks!?" could be heard echoing over the Internet. As a result, I've put up a clear notification on the home page and made sure to have the tried and tested 3.5.6.1 version at the ready in case people have this problem. Your bookmarks are not lost, they are simply not displayed/not accessible. With all the alpha/beta/RC releases I would have seriously expected people to have found this -before- releasing the code as "final release". Since Pale Moon is based on this flawed Firefox code, it also displays this problem.

22 Jan 2010 14:30

Tests have been flawless so far. Pushing the release forward to stay close to Mozilla's release. Athlon XP version is being compiled, portable version will take some more time, as I want to make sure to make it a less spartan and more polished release. WinPenPack's team has not answered to my request for them to take care of a customized release, so I will have to do it myself.

22 Jan 2010 10:00

Pale Moon 3.6 has been compiled and is currently in its testing phase. Stay tuned for updates and the release.

16 Jan 2010

Decided to re-evaluate my need for ads. Since the agent I'm using won't allow me to add ads to the start page (which would be a prime spot) because of lack of link-ins, I'll have to have a look at other advertisement options anyway. Advertisement frame has been added to the home page, above the fold but on the side. I tried a top-of-page position but it simply breaks the site layout too much. Now the waiting is for people to buy space and actually help me recover some of the cash I had to spend to host it.

14 Jan 2010 15:00

I'm not happy about having to do this, but I'm forced to compensate for my expenses by having some ads up on the website. I'll be able to take them back down later on if and when I have made enough to cover the hosting costs, OR if and when people actually offer to donate some money to help me out. It doesn't take much for me to have this page hosted, but it's more than I can currently afford to spend. Every little bit helps!

06 Jan 2010 20:30

Moved some content around on the site, to keep the general information page more concise, and added a section on specific differences between Pale Moon and its origins, Firefox, on the Technical Details page.
Examined the newly released Firefox 3.5.7, and found that the grand total of 3 bugfixes/improvements (with only one "real" bug) was definitely not enough reason to consider it for a point release. This version will be skipped.

01 Jan 2010 13:00

Happy New Year to everyone!
A slightly delayed update, but the Portable version of Pale Moon has been updated to 3.5.6.1 as well now.

30 Dec 2009 21:00

Today, the website was moved to a dedicated hosting company to be able to handle the traffic. So yes, I've had to dish out money for this project now - I'm pondering if I should try to sell ad space to make up for it or not, although I'd prefer to keep the website ad-free.

26 Dec 2009 23:00

Seems like today, people had nothing better to do than to launch a DoS attack at the web server. Sigh. What the hell is wrong with you people? It's not like there's anything worth-while on here that warrants disrupting the web site with attacks like that. It's Christmas, for crying out loud, too... One has to just wonder: WHY? Jealous about the browser?...

22 Dec 2009 11:30

Updated Pale Moon for Athlon XP to 3.5.6.1 now - Enjoy!

21 Dec 2009 22:30

After getting some help with Regular Expressions, downloading links are once again back to straight URLs and no longer routed through a PHP script that I had put in place to prevent hotlinking on the main site. A big thanks to the people putting up easy to understand and properly explained information pages about using mod_rewrite in Apache to do this internally in the server!
It's a pity that I even have to go through these steps to prevent external sites from directly linking to the installers, but it seems quite a number of what are supposed to be "software archives" just have a system in place that, to the average user, pretends to host the download, but instead just redirect people's browsers to the official homepages of software. Some even offering "premium downloads" this way. Shame on you!

21 Dec 2009 02:30

A minor update to create 3.5.6.1 - I would normally not release point versions like this, but it seems the solution for pages failing to load is definitely something that makes this warranted.

20 Dec 2009 22:30

Added a troubleshooting page for some problems people have indicated when using Pale Moon.

20 Dec 2009 14:00

The site has been updated to reflect the needed changes for 3.5.6 - as well as moving some content to different pages.

04 Dec 2009 12:00

Since so many people asked about releasing a 3.6 beta, I've spent several hours messing with code and compiling things to make a 3.6 beta Pale Moon. Preliminary tests are OK, so I dropped it on the site, but I want to make absolutely clear that this is not a real release for Pale Moon. It's an experimental build, and I certainly won't use it as my main browser.

03 Dec 2009 19:15

OK, I give up :P If it's not one thing, it's another - the new free hosting had an option for "type of site" being "software/download", so it would be clear to the hosting company what kind of files would be hosted there... And then it turns out that installers, programs and other executables are immediately removed upon upload, even zipped. What is the f-ing point?
I will not put any more time and energy into actually providing a full-blown mirror site and maintaining it, instead I will look into more file hosting alternatives. Just wasted 2 days messing with and adapting html and php for naught, that's enough.

03 Dec 2009 17:00

After another full day of trying to contact Hostecs to see if I could get a reasonable (or any, for that matter) answer out of them as to what happened to the hosting and customer account used for the Pale Moon mirror site, it's become clear they have no intention on giving me a response about the matter. Extremely unprofessional, and if this is any indication about their service, I would strongly discourage anyone to get an account there. They just lost a potential paying customer by doing this, and have earned themselves a scolding review on some sites comparing hosting packages.

I have since signed up with a new hosting provider to have a mirror site up, as I still can't afford to use my poor DSL for the world downloading Pale Moon, and I can't afford to pay for proper professional hosting - let's hope this one gets a better track record!

02 Dec 2009 13:50

First news entry on this page - unfortunately bad news immediately:
Hostecs, who has provided me with a mirror space for this web site, has taken it upon themselves to cancel my hosting account as, well as, by the looks of it, my user account. No explanation, no reason given, no warning...
So, for the time being, I will have to change the main site and PAD to reflect this, while I wait for an answer from them.

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