Welcome to Pale Moon – Your browser, Your way
Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and customization. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code a number of years ago, with carefully selected features and optimizations to improve the browser's stability and user experience, while offering full customization and a growing collection of extensions and themes to make the browser truly your own.
Please find links to our most popular individual download pages:
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Main features:
- Optimized for modern processors
- Based on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP) containing our own
optimized layout and rendering engine
(Goanna)
- Safe: forked from mature Mozilla code and regularly updated
with the latest security patches
- Secure: Additional security features and security-aware
development
- Supported by our user community, and fully non-profit
- Zero ads; no telemetry, spyware or data gathering
- Familiar, efficient, fully customizable interface
- Support for full themes: total freedom for any element's design
- Support for easily-created lightweight themes (skins)
- Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
- Superior gradients and fonts
- Will continue to support NPAPI plugins like Flash and Java
- Support for many "legacy" Firefox extensions, but please read this
- Support for a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive
extensions
- Extensive and growing support for existing web standards
This browser, even though fairly close to Gecko-based browsers like Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey in the way it works, is based on a different layout engine and offers a different set of features. It aims to provide close adherence to a balanced set of official, common-sense web standards and specifications in its implementation (with minimal compromise), and purposefully excludes a number of features to strike a balance between general use, performance, and technical advancements on the Web.
Pale Moon will continue to provide grouped navigation buttons of a decent size, a bookmarks toolbar that is enabled by default, tabs next to page content by default (easily switchable) and not in the least a functional status bar and more freedom in customization, to name a few things.
| Top news: 06 February 2021 Pale Moon 29.0.1 has been released. This is a security and stability update. 02 February 2021 Pale Moon 29.0 has been released. This is an (overdue) new milestone release of the browser with a number of improvements and fixes. More information in the release notes! more news... |
Pale Moon is, and will always be, Open Source and completely FREE to download and use!
This browser is released as a community
project to aim for open,
collaborative development of a full-featured web browser, as
much
designed by the user as it is by our development team. Everyone is
welcome to become involved in its development or to write extensions to
enhance their browsing experience! It is released
"as-is" and in the hope that it will be useful to its users.
This project is community-supported to benefit the development
of not only a web browser but any other application that builds on the
freely available XUL platform
we are developing and using. That means that if you enjoy the browser
enough to help pay for bills for hosting, related on-line and off-line
services,
and especially further development and maintenance of the browser and
underlying platform, you
can support
us through the following service:
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We do not accept any form of cryptocurrency.
If you are interested in keeping updated of new releases of the Pale Moon web browser, please register on the official Pale Moon forum and subscribe to "Announcements", or subscribe to the news feed of the announcements board.
You may also be kept up to date by following the Twitter feed page by clicking the social media icon top-right of this page.
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