System Requirements
Hardware Requirements
Pale Moon is designed to take advantage of hardware features any
reasonably modern desktop computer should have. As such, it is built to
use broadly-present CPU features, and works best with graphics cards
that have good acceleration support.
Minimum requirements for
official builds:
- 32-bit (Windows only): A processor with at least SSE2
support (any CPU that is not
museum-grade should be fine).
- 64-bit: A processor with at least AVX support. Almost all
modern processors from the last decade support this.
- At least 2 GB of free RAM.
While it may be possible to run it in limited fashion on less RAM, it
isn't recommended as memory pressure will cause a lot of performance
loss and may cause crashes.
- A reasonable screen size (720p or higher).
Recommended:
- A 64-bit processor and O.S.
- 4 GB of free RAM.
- A dedicated GPU with stable driver support.
Microsoft Windows
System requirements when running on Microsoft Windows:
- Windows 7 with service pack 1 or later. We do not support
Vista or Windows XP.
- All applicable security updates installed.
- At least 150 MB of free drive space for installation. More
recommended for caching and profile data.
Linux
Pale Moon is specifically optimized for current-day processors
and as such requires a reasonably modern system to run properly. See
also hardware requirements above. Especially for Linux, often used on
very old hardware, this is a point of note.
System requirements:
- A modern Linux distribution. The browser may not work well
on old or LTS releases of Linux.
- 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended for heavy use).
- GTK 2.24 or GTK 3.22+, depending on which version you
download. GTK4 is not supported.
- GLib 2.56 or higher
- Pango 1.42 or higher
- libstdc++ 4.6.1 or higher
NOTE: Linux 32 bit binaries have been
discontinued. However, your distribution (or one of the fantastic
package contributors) may still offer 32 bit packages at their
discretion. If they do you should remove the "generic" binary and
install said package. Otherwise, to continue using the Pale Moon
binaries we distribute, please update to a 64 bit distribution of your
O.S..
Apple Mac
An Intel 64-bit or Apple Silicon Mac running MacOS X 10.7 or later.
FreeBSD
Our binary support for FreeBSD is version-limited due to the fact that
we will
be building on what version best aligns with our build system.
System requirements for the current release version:
- A 64-bit Intel machine.
- 64-bit FreeBSD 13 or later.
- GTK 2 or 3 package installed, depending on which version
you download.
- ALSA package installed.
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