What other people say about Pale Moon

"After being a long-time user of Firefox, and wishing it would be more efficient, less resource intensive and generally less cantankerous, I have found that exact Mozilla based browser in Pale Moon.

For the last couple of years, it has been my browser of choice. I appreciate the efforts of all of the developers on this project and everyone that has helped create it.

Other than an occasional hiccup, not at all unusual for any browser, and most brought upon by my own experimentation, it has been a rock solid performer.

Thanks!"

Steve S. (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

"Simply the best browser on Internet!
Nothing of useless features, JUST what you need. I have tested a lot of browsers, lots of hours testing all of them: Chrome, IE, Opera... all of them with a LOT of features... most of them useless...

This Browser is really what I need: Speed & Productivity all of the time!"

Richard Araya (Zarcero, Costa Rica)

"Pale Moon is a lean mean fast machine. I am totally happy with the performance of this browser.

Recently, I had an issue and reported it to Pale Moon and within and hour I had a response from Pale Moon with the solution to my problem. This browser is not only a great browser but, support is top notch also. If you don't find your answer in the troubleshooting guide or on the forum then you can report your issue and be assured of a prompt response.

Thanks, Pale Moon, for this great browser."

John G. (Albuquerque, NM, USA)

"That's the way Firefox should be.

They removed some very annoying UI changes of Fx 4 (for instance, the "addon bar" remains the "status bar", without that big X button that removes it whenever you accidentally click it, and still aligned to the right) and some CPU consuming useless features.
As far as I tested (SunSpider and Peacekeeper), it's respectively around 2.5 and 10% faster than Fx. Startup, which is my major issue with Firefox (other speed tests don't really matter for real life use), feels quite faster too.

Long story short: with it I can use all the add-ons that render Firefox indispensable to me, but with improved performance."

David (Paris, France)

"I have used every browser that I know of for windows, but Pale Moon beats them all. 

I love this simple little browser.

I've not experienced one problem with it.  Everything performs beautifully.

I use Pale Moon exclusively for watching programs and movies online and it never crashes; unlike Firefox.  Firefox has gotten to the point that it will freeze, crash, nor will it allow use of pop-outs on DIVX players.  It's a real headache.

I have not experienced any of those issues with Pale Moon.

Thank you for sharing it with the internet community.

>From an eternally grateful fan."

Debra Normand (Memphis, USA)

"Fast, efficient and fully compatible.  What more can I say?"

James Carey (Columbus, GA, USA)

"Just wanted to let you know that I have made Pale Moon my default browser! 

My company uses several ERP applications such as Oracle Applications.  And everything is so much faster and more efficient when working from Pale Moon.  I just wanted to say thank you for all of your efforts and forward thinking. 

Perhaps you are already aware, but you have really set the standard for what a browser needs to be within a corporate environment.

Keep up the good work!"

Matthew Laptad (Herndon, VA, USA)

"Having a very good i7 laptop and 8GB of RAM I didn't think there would be a browser which would improve on speed. Boy was I wrong! Lightning quick to open, and loads up websites with impressive speed.

If you love surfing the web then you should download Pale Moon today, you won't go back!"

Peter-John Radcliffe (Farham, UK)

"It's a cliché but... Palemoon put the fun back in surfing.
I struggled for the longest time with older versions of Firefox after it started getting bloated and unresponsive (Ver 4+) but this is it.
Perfectly seamless migration from Firefox just added to my appreciation.
Great stuff!"

Göran Ingvarsson (Kristianstad, Sweden)

"I have been using Firefox for a while now, migrated from IE. It is a really good browser and highly customizable. However, with one drawback: high memory consumption which seriously impacts its functionality.

I came across Pale Moon and have been using it for a few days, have customized it and I am impressed with what you have done, it uses less system resources than Firefox 5 and is generally snappier in use. In particular, whilst still not perfect, it consumes much less system memory, I commend the reintroduction of the Status Bar which should never have been removed by FF in the first place, and the various other tweaks you have made make it more functional in use.
Please continue your efforts with Pale Moon with emphasis on optimizing memory issues in future updates.

I will be using Pale Moon as my main browser from now on.

Keep up the good work."

Stephen May (Sevilla, Spain)

"I have used several browsers over the past decade-plus of web surfing I have done.  I have always preferred Gecko based browsers but was growing disenchanted with Firefox, as it was slowing down and having other issues which thankfully were mostly resolved in version 5.  I had heard of Pale Moon but had never given it a try until now.

As another reviewer stated: "a browser is a browser or so I thought until I tried Pale Moon".  I could not believe the difference in speed, stability, and overall performance with Pale Moon.  What makes this possible is removing the unnecessary code that bloats Firefox's multi-platform model.

Pale Moon has become my default browser and I look forward to future releases - I would be crazy not to use it, since it integrates into Windows better than Firefox and has less bloat.  It appears the memory leak issue that has plagued Firefox for a long time may have been addressed with Pale Moon!  Kudos!

Besides, it also has a really cool program icon from my perspective!  ;)"

Jeff (Stanwood, USA)

"I often test new software, browsers, etc.

I more or less just stumbled onto this "Pale Moon" browser and it caught my eye, so thought to myself "Hey, I'll give it a whirl round the web." Firefox is my browser of choice anyways, and I have tested loads of different builds, so I downloaded and set up this great looking Pale moon browser and have now been using it for near to a week.

Please believe me when i say "Hand on heart, this is the most well thought out, fantastically smooth, featured packed, fast as hell, brilliant build of any kind I've ever used!" :)

I wont tell you about the awsome tools it has built into it... I'll let you discover them for yourself; but I'll just say WOW and Hats off to the creator: you have in me a Pale moon convert and I'm 100% impressed and am looking forward to more future builds.

Thankyou very much for this tool."

Markus Moto (Birmingham, U.K.)

"I gave Pale Moon a shot when I saw it was on x64 flavour, but now I can't do without it - it's fast, stable, awesome and works just out of the box.
For me, it's a masterpiece of browsing software and I'm already spreading the word about it.
The author has outdone himself with this nice program"

Luis (Granada, Spain)

They can't touch this!
"Just installed the Pale Moon Browser. And, I must say, it's like manna from heaven. The migration tool is right on time. Perfect!!!
I started browsing the web and almost immediately I noticed the very impressive speed this little baby has. I mean simply amazing. This is an excellent product, worthy of all the adorations any slick browser should have.  I'm quite sure it'll knock the socks off of any other browsers in the wild.  It'll smoke 'em. Hands down!!

Thank you, thank you, and thank you for this most impressive piece of work. I'll be sure to spread the news.

The Pale Moon Browser is the MC Hammer of all browsers. 'They all can't touch this!' "

John (Philadelphia, USA)

"I love palemoon.
I know this browser from a forum in my country (Indonesia). I tried it because I really hate that my Mozilla keeps crashing all the time and always ruins my day...
After I try palemoon, awesome... First, I am impressed with its speed, faster than all other browsers out there, and after I used it for a long time, I feel satisfied for its stable engine.
Now, I never use any browser except Pale Moon because I had enough trouble before, and Pale Moon can cure my headache... :P"

Aga (Jakarta, Indonesia)

"I run a website and hence live in my browser even more than most do nowadays. I often had to deal with slow load times, crashes and just sluggish performance.
Since I have switched to Pale Moon all those problems have gone bye-bye. I can now get the news up in seconds of release and can confidently set up an upload knowing that my browser wont crash.

Pale Moon, thanks for removing one of the most common headaches I deal with daily."

Conor Hughes (Dublin, Ireland)

You got a five-star hit on your hands
"The moment I stumbled on to the homepage, it seemed too good to be true so I decided to prove to myself why this wouldn't be the browser for me.

I downloaded, installed and browsed with it. It performed well and I found myself begrudgingly impressed as I am most browser-jaded. I imported my bookmarks from an HTML file before I realized I was enjoying myself. So I decided to drive it harder.
I opened tab after tab, all graphics and/or flash heavy, and it didn't even hiccup. So I left them open while I downloaded a few PDF and video files. I think there may have been a few seconds pause on tab number eleven when I went to view it so, of course, I had to check for updates to add-ons as well. That'll crash it, right? Wrong.

Surely, it was luck, so I did this several times over a period of a few days, becoming more and more demanding, until I thought I'd run this browser into the ground. I did this while using other resource-heavy applications at the same time. I really wanted to see what it would take to get it to freeze or crash.

Well, I got news for you, I have no idea what it will take to down this browser. I'm worn from driving this thing at 200 mph down the internet highway and the only comment I can give you is that this is how a browser should drive with Gecko as the engine powering it.

Pale Moon is a smart, fast and good-looking lightweight browser that uses fewer resources and delivers each time."

Gen (Sonoma, California, USA)

"Having dealt with hit and miss web browsing - lots of session recovery and such - I have to say, Pale Moon feels more stable and quicker. It hasn't broken where the other browsers have in the past would (Java, Flash and JScript).

I can run alot of Flash and JScript and I don't get the session failures that Chrome, IE & Firefox give me for the same content. Sure they would recover, but I don't do that anymore with Pale Moon - hell of a great browser!

I give it five stars!"

Keith Neilson (Thatcher, Utah, USA)

"A major thanks to Moonchild for such labor intensive work in only making better one of the best browsers in my opinion, especially when receiving limited help and code assistance from the firefox team.

I know how hard having your own baby project is to keep up with along with everything else in a normal life not including fixing all the mess-ups mozilla does with all of their new releases.
It's great to have an optimized and debugged version of software released at the same time as the "official" software.

Many thanks again and you are greatly appreciated and referred to everyone I know always."

Tophkr (Jacksonville, USA)

"Some guy asked me what i think about Pale Moon.
I was already a Firefox user so i imediatly downloaded.
I noticed the speed and the page-loading increased and now i am a Pale Moon user.

Excelent work with the migration tool also."

Paun Traian (Focsani, Romania)

"Heard about Palemoon in forums et al. Just got curious and downloaded the appropriate version (AMD Athlon). And boy, it just flew right from double clicking the Setup file itself. See, your belief can influence your binaries also!

Terrific job guys! Just keep it up.

And thanks a ton."

Mumtaz Ansari (India)

"I tried and tested many browsers in the last few months (mostly in portable form) for my ordinary laptop. And this one was surprise. Fast, ok. It is. But stability?... I have seen that in first 15 min. of browsing (my laptop is a slower machine and this browser is an ideal partner).
Overall, I am very, very satisfied and wish you to go on.
All the best."

Danko Zivkovic (Belgrade, Serbia)

"I have been a Firefox user for many years, up to and including trying out all the FF4 betas, up to beta 6, with each one getting slower and having more problems than the previous one to the point of utter frustration, and removing them and going back to FF3.6.11.

A month or so ago I happened upon Pale Moon, and thought I'd give it a try.  Well, there's no looking back now.  It is noticeably faster than FF3.6.11, doing everything that I use a browser for, with fast page opening etc., no freeze ups so far, and if it's possible, Pale Moon 3.6.11 seems slightly faster than Pale Moon 3.6.9.

Excellent job, keep up the good work!"

Charlie Anderson (Canada)

"Let me just say that I LOVE PALEMOON!
I dumped Opera and Firefox in favor of your browser. I had been using Firefox as my main browser for over 4 years, and naturally I had it customized *exactly* how I liked it. I was a bit worried when I first switched to Palemoon; what would happen to all my settings, plug-ins, bookmarks? What about my Persona (aka 'skin')? Well, importing my Firefox profile (bookmarks, preferences, plug-ins, etc) could not have been easier. Keep up the good work!"

David Buckman (Reno, USA)

"I didn't really believe it would be any good - but how wrong could I be? It loads very, very quickly, displays pages in an astonishingly short time, does everything I want it to do and shuts down and releases memory quickly as well. EVERYBODY should try it !"

Gordon (U.K.)

"I did believe that nothing could be better than FireFox, I've using it since old good Mozilla times. What a surprise was to see that even FireFox can be optimized so much more! Daily, I surf with Ad Block Plus, Flashgot, Tidy and a ton of plugins that slows my FireFox. But Palemoon helps to cut-off the payload in speed and performance when add-ons work, so I have better response from the browser. For my needs, this is the best of both worlds in a single bundle."

Gerardo Rubio (Mexico City, Mexico)

"Impressive! The third version I've run on my flakey Sempron 3100+, and PaleMoon continues to shine. Unlike other browsers, PM has not crashed my system, crashed itself, or failed to load a page."

All up, a worthy addition to the FF based lineup that has earned PM its place as my new default browser. I look forward to even better browsing with new PM versions once FF updates its code.

Colin (Greenbank, Australia)

"I used Opera for years and only Palemoon could make me change my mind. It is excellent, safe and very fast.

These days I use Opera 10.50 and... Palemoon 3.6.0.5 remains somewhat faster in the burden of most pages, plus other benefits."

Joragoca (Argentina)

"I must say that I love this browser - I install it to all my clients (I repair PCs) and then add an Internet Explorer theme to it (to ease the learning curve) and they always ask me, "What did you do? My computer is a lot faster! Thank you!"
I like that part because firefox is already a lot faster than Internet Explorer and if you add the optimizations of this project for my clients, it is like I installed a faster CPU more RAM and faster hard disk."

Guillermo Siliceo (Mexico)

"On benchmarking fully patched to latest version browsers in random orders, it's consistantly around five times faster than IE8 and its derivatives, and 2-4 times faster than Opera.

Perhaps not so clear, with my erratic connection, was benchmarking against its parent Firefox; but in actual use Pale Moon showed a clean pair of heels. Startup is faster, and it easily handles pages like my bank login that Firefox simply wont touch."

K (Brisbane, Australia)

"Possibly the best browser, it's purely awesome :D

Can have my usual 500+ tabs, no problems. Firefox decided to become a CPU intensive app after the 470 tab mark."

Kel Dunningham (Australia)

Firefox Improved
"While I haven't actually run tests on it I would say that appears to be a bit faster than your ordinary Firefox build.
It also uses slightly less memory.
I was also surprised to discover that no configuration is necessary. All your Firefox plug-ins, Bookmarks, Etc are automatically up and running with everything working correctly.
In short, it is an improvement over the ordinary Firefox build."

Ian (over at Freewarefiles)

5 stars
"Have been a Firefox addict for years but had been very disappointed with the latest version as it would just not integrate with my ISP's SlipStream accelerator. Was about to go back to v 3.5 when I found Palemoon and decided to give that a go as it might be even better. Sure enough, it is without a doubt the very best Firefox I have come across. Really noticeable difference in speed, specially with poor quality rural dial up connections. It's everything a browser should be."

Linda (over at Softpedia)

"This is a truly amazing speed boost and very stable."

Ron Arnone

"Somehow after trialling a parallel install, Palemoon actually fixed a long standing problem Firefox had suffered from with some Neopets games. Not sure how it did that, but the 'fix' remained after temporarily removing Palemoon 'just to see'. It even pulls ahead of Chrome when one has to navigate through several intensive pages."

The Black Maned One (Queensland, Australia)

"I'm satisfied how smooth it works. Better than original FFox definitely.

Keep up the good work, mates!"

Sasha Kostic (Serbia)

"Its really lightweight and quick responding compared to Firefox. Gone are the days when my 512MB laptop used to hang / freeze for a minute everytime when I clicked on 'browse' for adding attachment to emails! Or even in the downthemall add-on, when you add multiple files for download, Firefox will freeze for a few moments. Gone are those problems. This Palemoon is really quick responding, no lagging, no freezing, no delay in start-up time. And with noscript and 'adblock plus' addons, this is a killer browser with superfast jet speed. I recommend it to everyone!

And I appreciate & admire the software developers and pray for their long and healthy life- so that they can continue making more such lovely softwares."

Mrunal Patel (India)

"I just wanted to send a sincere thank you for the work, time and effort you've given the community. I've been teeter tottering back and forth between Chrome/Firefox and with the changes in gecko I was happy with the real world numbers versus webkit.

That being said.. after 24hrs of testing.. Pale Moon has swept my feet out from under me in love. The functionality of the (imo) superior Firefox extension set and the speed of Chrome. I couldn't be happier.
I will be doing your word of mouth campaign as best I can."

Vincent Marziale (USA)

"Tried using Palemoon (3.6.3) with huge extension list (about 70) and Russian locale, on two WinXP SP2 systems.
It seems that all works fine (at least all that I use in everyday tasks), and the promised speed gain is for real, I see it.
Recommended Palemoon to my friends on Livejournal social network.
There was one problem with Russian chars in extension pop-up notification, but that is very minor for me.
Thanks for your work!"

Roman ShaRP (Ukraine)

"I am a security analyst by trade and have been a die hard user of Firefox.......till now!

Pale Moon browser is a breath of fresh air and exciting software to use. Its speed is superior to Firefox which is a plus. Hats off to The Pale Moon Project and its developers great job done! 

I'm staying with Pale Moon and not looking back"

Tony Rogers (USA)

"Wouldn't use Firefox if some one paid me, but this variation of it is sweet. I'm only calling it that right here for descriptive purposes, otherwise Palemoon IS NOT Firefox at all.

None of the phoning home just from the default bookmarks that Firefox includes.

The basic tweaks in about:config are already done, so I don't have to do that first thing. Can't believe the people over at Mozilla are too braindead to do that to Firefox, by default.

Firefox has been known since its inception to have memory leaks that they still haven't been fixed. None of that in Palemoon.

Don't have much use for addons like so many people do. Stupid, IMO. I do use adblockplus and flashblock is all.

Like I said, wouldn't touch Firefox with a 10 foot pole, but have Palemoon on all 6 systems of mine.

Keep rockin' people!!"

honorable1nut (USA)

"I have used all the major internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera) and without a doubt, Palemoon rises above all of these. Imagine the customization of Firefox, powered by speed rivaling Chrome and handling pages with extreme ease; Low RAM and low CPU usage as well. This will be a browser I will be using for years."

Chris (U.K.)

"Clearly a much better improvement in speed compared to regular firefox. I have a gaming computer and a really slow netbook and can notice a huge speed jump on both of them. At work I'm usually on my slow netbook and firefox gets really slow when I have 4 or more tabs open. Now with PM I can have 10, even 20 tabs open and PM still works flawlessly. PM is now my ONLY browser and its here to stay."

Eric Jakeway (USA)

"I love it. I love it. I love it.

I had been in browser limbo for a long while after quitting Firefox the first time.  I liked Firefox, but it was just too slow and bloated.  It'd constantly crash and eat up system resources.

I tried Chrome, Opera, Safari, even – god help me – I.E., but none of them individually were as customizable, efficient, stable, and speedy as Pale Moon. This browser is my lifemate."

John (USA)

"I have been using Firefox since version 1.
A friend of mine introduced me to Pale Moon and I tried it out.
I noticed the performance difference immediately. Very fast on Windows 7 and my dual core.
Would recommend to anyone with a decent PC."

Joe (U.K.)

"I usually don't give feedback.
After all, you expect a program to do its job. And a browser is a browser, right?

Wrong.

I was a Firefox user from when it was called Phoenix. I used it for years, custom builds and all. I even made my own builds.
But then Google Chrome came out, and it beat FF speed-wise hands down. I switched, and started playing with Chromium (the open source version of Chrome, for those who don't know).
The other day, I somehow stumbled upon Pale Moon while looking for Chromium tweaks and decided to try it out. I was blown away. Not only does Pale Moon do everything it promises, it does it exceptionally well.
All the benefits of Firefox and its addons and themes, plus so much more. The difference in speed between Chrome/Chromium and Pale Moon on my machine is glaringly noticeable.

Pale Moon has managed to convert me back to Firefox in 2 days. I commend you on this most excellent build.

Keep up the great work!"

Chris (USA)

"Lovely browser.
Fast to download, easy to install and a perfect migration of my FF profile. 
No tests run, but it seems at least 20% faster.  Great, thanks!"

Kit Thompson (France)