Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with contributed other operating system support), 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.
Main features:
- Optimized for modern processors
- Based on the Goanna Runtime Environment™ containing our own optimized layout and rendering engine (Goanna)
- Safe: forked from mature Mozilla platform 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
- Privacy-aware: 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 (toolbar skins)
- Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
- Superior gradients and fonts
- Will continue to support NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Flash and Java
- Extensive and growing support for existing web standards
Pale Moon: Release notes
21 March 2022
Pale Moon 30 rollout cancelled. Following severe issues with the unexpected exit of a core dev
and considerable damage caused to our operations, the milestone 30 rollout has been cancelled.
23 March 2022
Pale Moon 29.4.5 has been released.
This is a security update to bring Pale Moon's security and safety up to the same level as the new milestone.
Changes/fixes:
- Fixed several application crash scenarios. DiD
- Fixed a number of thread locking/mutex issues. DiD
- Fixed a leak of content types due to inconsistent error reporting. (CVE-2022-22760)
- Fixed an issue with iframe sandboxing not being properly applied. (CVE-2022-22759)
- Fixed a potential leak of bookmarks from the exported bookmarks file if it included a malicious bookmarklet.
- Fixed an issue with drag-and-drop. (CVE-2022-22756)
- Fixed a potential crash due to truncated WAV files.
- Fixed a memory safety issue with XSLT. (CVE-2022-26485)
Homepage: https://www.palemoon.org/
Forum: https://forum.palemoon.org/
Changelog: https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml
Download page: https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml