Welcome to Pale Moon – Your browser, Your way
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.
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Looking for specific download options like a package for a different operating system, development options or a portable version? Check the download menu at the top of this page!
- Optimized for modern processors
- Based on 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
- Extensible with a growing number of maintained XUL browser extensions
- 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
- Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
- Superior gradients and fonts compared to other rendering engines
- Will continue to support NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Java
- Extensive and growing support for existing web standards
Pale Moon will continue to provide grouped navigation buttons of a decent size, a bookmarks toolbar that is enabled by default, tabs next to page content by default (easily switchable) and not in the least a functional status bar and more freedom in customization , to name a few things.
11 Jul 2023
Pale Moon 32.3.0 has been released. This is a major development release, implementing several new JavaScript improvements and other feastures.
Pale Moon is, and will always be, Open Source and completely FREE to download and use!
This browser is released as a community project to aim for open, collaborative development of a full-featured web browser , as much designed by the user as it is by our development team. Everyone is welcome to become involved in its development or to write extensions to enhance their browsing experience! It is released «as-is» and in the hope that it will be useful to its users.
This project is community-supported to benefit the development of not only a web browser but any other application that builds on the freely available XUL platform we are developing and using. That means that if you enjoy the browser enough to help pay for bills for hosting, related on-line and off-line services, and especially further development and maintenance of the browser and underlying platform, you can support us through the following service:
Other options for supporting Pale Moon are available too!
We currently do not accept any form of cryptocurrency.
Site and contents Copyright © 2009-2023 Moonchild Productions — All rights reserved
Pale Moon is subject to the following licensing.
Policies: Cookies — User Content — Privacy.
Linux Installation
It is not necessary to install Pale Moon to use it. It is distributed as an xz-compressed tarball which can be extracted anywhere and then launched by executing the «palemoon» file inside it. If for any reason you prefer to manually «install» Pale Moon, you can use the instructions below.
These instructions below will extract Pale Moon to your home folder. You can extract Pale Moon to any other location by substituting you home folder with the path for the directory you want to extarct to. Please note that it is required that you extract to a user writable location in order for the internal updater to work!
Installation
- Uninstall all previous versions of Pale Moon, if any.
- Download the appropriate archive.
- Extract the archive.
ln -s ~/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoonln -s ~/palemoon/browser/chrome/icons/default/default16.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/palemoon.png ln -s ~/palemoon/browser/chrome/icons/default/default32.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/palemoon.png ln -s ~/palemoon/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/palemoon.png ln -s ~/palemoon/browser/icons/mozicon128.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/palemoon.png- If you are using a Debian-based distro, you might want to inform update-alternatives about the presence of Pale Moon (and make it available as x-www-browser and gnome-www-browser). An arbitrary score of 100 has been used here, but you can adjust it according to your needs:
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser gnome-www-browser /usr/bin/palemoon 100update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser /usr/bin/palemoon 100rm -r ~/palemoon/dictionariesln -s /usr/share/hunspell ~/palemoon/dictionaries- Make a menu entry by creating /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop in a text editor with the following contents:
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Pale Moon Web Browser Comment=Browse the World Wide Web Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer Exec=palemoon %u Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Icon=palemoon Categories=Network;WebBrowser;Internet MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png; x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall; StartupNotify=trueAfter creating the menu entry, you may need to run the following command to get the icon to appear:
gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolorUpdates
Updates are handled automatically by Pale Moon’s own internal updater provided that Pale Moon was extracted to your home folder or any other location writable by your user account. If for some reason you want to update manually:
If you want hunspell/hyphen integration, you need to rerun the commands stated in the «Installation» section at this point.
Uninstallation
rm /home/*/.local/share/applications/userapp-Pale\ Moon-*.desktop /home/*/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache- If you used a Debian-based distro and registered Pale Moon with update-alternatives, then remove it from the list of browsers maintained by it:
update-alternatives --remove gnome-www-browser /usr/bin/palemoonupdate-alternatives --remove x-www-browser /usr/bin/palemoonrm -rf /usr/bin/palemoon ~/palemoon /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop /usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/palemoon.pngSite design and Branding © 2023 Moonchild Productions — All rights reserved
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Welcome to Pale Moon – Your browser, Your way
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.
Impatient? Jump to our download page:
Looking for specific download options like a package for a different operating system, development options or a portable version? Check the download menu at the top of this page!
- Optimized for modern processors
- Based on 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
- Extensible with a growing number of maintained XUL browser extensions
- 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
- Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
- Superior gradients and fonts compared to other rendering engines
- Will continue to support NPAPI plugins like Silverlight, Adobe Flash and Java
- Extensive and growing support for existing web standards
Pale Moon will continue to provide grouped navigation buttons of a decent size, a bookmarks toolbar that is enabled by default, tabs next to page content by default (easily switchable) and not in the least a functional status bar and more freedom in customization , to name a few things.
11 Jul 2023
Pale Moon 32.3.0 has been released. This is a major development release, implementing several new JavaScript improvements and other feastures.
Pale Moon is, and will always be, Open Source and completely FREE to download and use!
This browser is released as a community project to aim for open, collaborative development of a full-featured web browser , as much designed by the user as it is by our development team. Everyone is welcome to become involved in its development or to write extensions to enhance their browsing experience! It is released «as-is» and in the hope that it will be useful to its users.
This project is community-supported to benefit the development of not only a web browser but any other application that builds on the freely available XUL platform we are developing and using. That means that if you enjoy the browser enough to help pay for bills for hosting, related on-line and off-line services, and especially further development and maintenance of the browser and underlying platform, you can support us through the following service:
Other options for supporting Pale Moon are available too!
We currently do not accept any form of cryptocurrency.
Site and contents Copyright © 2009-2023 Moonchild Productions — All rights reserved
Pale Moon is subject to the following licensing.
Policies: Cookies — User Content — Privacy.