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Pale Moon

Provides customizable browsing experience with optimized performance and security.

Made by Moonchild Productions

  • windows-optimization

  • Web Browser

  • Security & Privacy

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

Platforms

  • WinPenPack
  • Linux
  • Windows

Languages

  • English

Social

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