Pale Moon – The Fast, Private, and Fully Customizable Open Source Web Browser
If you’re looking for an efficient alternative to Chrome that respects your privacy and doesn't remove the features you love, Pale Moon is built for you.Pale Moon is an Open Source web browser built on its own maintained platform and rendering engine (Goanna™), available for various operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux (with community-contributed support for other operating systems), focusing on efficiency and customization.
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Why Choose Pale Moon Over Other Browsers?
Total freedom in customization (Your Browser, Your Way™)
Pale Moon supports complete customization with full theming and support for legacy extensions (XUL), allowing you to make the browser look and work the way you want, without compromise.Safe and secure independence
Pale Moon has been forked from mature Mozilla platform code, is built
from its own independently developed
source and is regularly updated with the latest security patches. The browser
also offers additional security features like a clear indication of a
site's identity and security level, and prioritizes security awareness
with many defense-in-depth considerations aside from addressing any
applicable vulnerabilities (CVEs).Legacy add-on support (XUL)
Pale Moon is compatible with the vast majority of so-called "legacy" Firefox extensions, extremely powerful add-ons based on XUL that not only allow additional features to/manipulation of web content, but also allows core functions and the UI of the browser to be completely redefined or altered. A growing number of them have also been rewritten or forked by our community, to target Pale Moon specifically, and are actively maintained. In addition, Pale Moon has full support for the Netscape plugin API (NPAPI), offering compatibility with native plugins like Flash and Java.True privacy with zero telemetry
At Pale Moon, privacy considerations will always remain at the forefront.This is why we have chosen to be fully community-supported and the browser does not contain any ads, telemetry or data-gathering. There is no DRM or A.I. in the browser and it does not spy on you or your browsing habits.
Optimized for modern hardware and efficiency
From its inception, Pale Moon has always aimed to be efficient. In line with that goal, it is built with reasonably modern hardware in mind (see system requirements) to get the most out of your computer without wasting resources. The Goanna layout and rendering engine at the heart of it will make use of your computer's capabilities where it can, including hardware acceleration offered by your graphics hardware (GPU). More information about Goanna.A balancing act
Pale Moon aims to provide close adherence to a balanced set of official, common-sense modern web standards and specifications in its implementation (with minimal compromise), and purposefully excludes a number of (draft) features and Web APIs to strike a balance between general use, performance, privacy, and technical advancements on the Web.| Top news: 22 Jan 2026 Pale Moon 34.0.1 has been released. This is a minor update to address some critical issues in the new milestone. 20 Jan 2026 Pale Moon 34.0.0 has been released. This is a new milestone release with many changes. More information in the release notes! more news... |
Freedom, not greed
Pale Moon is, and will always be, Open Source and completely
free (gratis) to download
and use!
This browser is released as a community
project to aim for open,
collaborative development of a full-featured, general-use web browser,
as
much
designed by the community as it is by our development team. Everyone is
welcome to become involved in its development, discussions around
improvements, or to write extensions to
enhance their browsing experience!
Please understand it is released
"as-is" and in the hope that it will be useful to its users.
This project is heavily
reliant on direct community contributions to make the
development
of not only a web browser, but also any other application that builds
on the
freely available XUL platform
we are developing and using, possible. We are a small team that puts
users and their privacy first, meaning our
options for monetization are (very) limited. If
you enjoy the browser and use it at least somewhat regularly,
please consider helping us pay our bills for hosting, related on-line
and off-line
services,
administrative fees, legal expenses and especially further development
and maintenance, as well as increasing cost of living for those
dedicating themselves to the project. You
can support
us directly through the following service:
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We do not accept any form of cryptocurrency.
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