What is Pale Moon?
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. The browser is completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been hard forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code, with carefully selected features and optimizations to improve the browser's speed, resource use, stability and user experience, while offering full customization and a growing collection of extensions and themes
Highlights
- Optimized for modern processors
- Based on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP) containing an optimized layout and rendering engine (Goanna)
- Regularly updated with the latest security patches and additional security features
- Supported by a user community and fully non-profit, with zero ads, no telemetry, spyware or data gathering
- Familiar, efficient and fully customizable interface with support for full themes and easily-created lightweight skins
- Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing, superior gradients and fonts
- Continues to support NPAPI plugins like Flash and Java, and a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive extensions
- Extensive and growing support for existing web standards
Features
Portable
Optimal performance
Customizability
Optimized Firefox
Customizable
Privacy focused
Built-in RSS reader
Firefox-based Browsers
Lightweight
Optimized for Windows
Legacy addons support
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Security focused
Support for Firefox extensions
Based on Goanna engine