Pale Moon v28.12.0
Open source
Vista / Win10 / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP
Vista / Win10 / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP
Pale Moon is a customised version of Firefox, which has been carefully optimised for speed and efficiency.
The program has been made more lightweight, for instance, by stripping out little-used components like the accessibility features, and the parental controls. The crash report has also been stripped out, as it's designed to work with server-side technology that isn't available on palemoon.org. And Pale Moon also drops support for Internet Explorer's ActiveX and ActiveX scripting technology, which also offers a security benefit as it means the browser can't be infected by malicious ActiveX controls.
Other optimisations are more technical. In particular, Firefox is compiled with the most conservative of settings, to ensure that it'll run on even ancient CPUs. Pale Moon, though, is optimised to take full advantage of modern processors, and this can give it a huge advantage over Firefox in some areas.
FEATURES
Highly optimized for modern processors
100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
Stability: experience fewer browser crashes.
Support for SVG and Canvas, and downloadable fonts including WOFF
Support for HTML5 and WebGL (v4+)
Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas
Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)
Able to use existing Firefox bookmarks and settings with this migration tool.
The program has been made more lightweight, for instance, by stripping out little-used components like the accessibility features, and the parental controls. The crash report has also been stripped out, as it's designed to work with server-side technology that isn't available on palemoon.org. And Pale Moon also drops support for Internet Explorer's ActiveX and ActiveX scripting technology, which also offers a security benefit as it means the browser can't be infected by malicious ActiveX controls.
Other optimisations are more technical. In particular, Firefox is compiled with the most conservative of settings, to ensure that it'll run on even ancient CPUs. Pale Moon, though, is optimised to take full advantage of modern processors, and this can give it a huge advantage over Firefox in some areas.
FEATURES
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Keywords:
pale moon
firefox
browser
optimized
modern
processor
License type
Open source1
Author's homepage
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Date added
12 Aug 2020
Downloads
9,907
File size
28.08 kB
(<1min @ 1Mbps)
Supported languages
English
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Spanish
Dutch
Danish
Operating systems
Vista / Win10 / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP1
1License and operating system information is based on latest version of the software.
Pale Moon v28.12.0(Latest stable version) 12 Aug 2020
Pale Moon v28.11.0 30 Jul 2020
Pale Moon v28.9.3 09 May 2020
Pale Moon v28.9.2 01 May 2020
Pale Moon v28.8.4 02 Mar 2020
Pale Moon v28.8.3 19 Feb 2020
Pale Moon v28.8.2.1 05 Feb 2020
Pale Moon v28.8.2 29 Jan 2020
Pale Moon v28.8.0 11 Dec 2019
Pale Moon v28.7.1 13 Sep 2019
Pale Moon v28.7.0 31 Aug 2019
Pale Moon v28.6.0.1 07 Jul 2019
Pale Moon v28.6.0 03 Jul 2019
Pale Moon v28.5.2 11 Jun 2019
Pale Moon v28.5.0 06 May 2019
Pale Moon v28.4.1 28 Mar 2019
Pale Moon v28.4.0 22 Feb 2019
Pale Moon v28.3.1 25 Jan 2019
Pale Moon v28.3.0 18 Jan 2019
Pale Moon v28.2.2 07 Dec 2018
Pale Moon v28.2.1 16 Nov 2018
Pale Moon v28.2.0 14 Nov 2018
Pale Moon v28.1.0 20 Sep 2018
Pale Moon v28.0.1 02 Sep 2018
Pale Moon v28.0.0.1 28 Aug 2018
Pale Moon v28.0.0 17 Aug 2018
Pale Moon v27.9.4 20 Jul 2018
Pale Moon v27.9.3 23 Jun 2018
Pale Moon v27.9.2 18 May 2018
Pale Moon v27.9.1 08 May 2018
Pale Moon v27.9.0 18 Apr 2018
Pale Moon v27.8.3 29 Mar 2018
Pale Moon v27.8.2 23 Mar 2018
Pale Moon v27.8.0 04 Mar 2018
Pale Moon v27.7.2 02 Feb 2018
Pale Moon v27.7.1 19 Jan 2018
Pale Moon v27.6.2 29 Nov 2017
Pale Moon v27.6.1 16 Nov 2017
Pale Moon v27.6.0 09 Nov 2017
Pale Moon v27.5.1 15 Oct 2017
Pale Moon v27.5.0 26 Sep 2017
Pale Moon v27.4.2 23 Aug 2017
Pale Moon v27.4.1 04 Aug 2017
Pale Moon v27.4.0 14 Jul 2017
Pale Moon v27.3.0 29 Apr 2017
Pale Moon v27.2.1 01 Apr 2017
Pale Moon v27.2.0 18 Mar 2017
Pale Moon v27.1.2 09 Mar 2017
Pale Moon v27.1.1 22 Feb 2017
Pale Moon v27.1.0 11 Feb 2017
Pale Moon v27.0.3 17 Dec 2016
Pale Moon v27.0.2 07 Dec 2016
Pale Moon v27.0.1 28 Nov 2016
Pale Moon v27.0.0 27 Nov 2016
Pale Moon v26.5.0 03 Oct 2016
Pale Moon v26.4.0 17 Aug 2016
Pale Moon v26.3.3 06 Jul 2016
Pale Moon v26.3.1 25 Jun 2016
Pale Moon v26.3.0 24 Jun 2016
Pale Moon v26.2.2 11 May 2016
Pale Moon v26.2.1 09 Apr 2016
Pale Moon v26.1.1 25 Feb 2016
Pale Moon v26.1.0 19 Feb 2016
Pale Moon v26.0.3 06 Feb 2016
Pale Moon v26.0.2 04 Feb 2016
Pale Moon v26.0.0 30 Jan 2016
Pale Moon v25.8.1 29 Nov 2015
Pale Moon v25.8.0 24 Nov 2015
Pale Moon v25.7.3 17 Oct 2015
Pale Moon v25.7.2 02 Oct 2015
Pale Moon v25.7.1 01 Oct 2015
Pale Moon v25.7.0 27 Aug 2015
Pale Moon v25.6.0 27 Jul 2015
Pale Moon v25.5.0 14 Jun 2015
Pale Moon v25.4.1 10 May 2015
Pale Moon v25.4.0 08 May 2015
Pale Moon v25.3.2 28 Apr 2015
Pale Moon v25.3.1 25 Mar 2015
Pale Moon v25.3.0 13 Mar 2015
Pale Moon v25.2.1 28 Jan 2015
Pale Moon v25.2.0 15 Jan 2015
Pale Moon v25.1.0 14 Nov 2014
Pale Moon v25.0.2 26 Oct 2014
Pale Moon v25.0.1 18 Oct 2014
Pale Moon v25.0.0 09 Oct 2014
Pale Moon v24.7.2 14 Sep 2014
Pale Moon v24.7.1 07 Aug 2014
Pale Moon v24.7.0 29 Jul 2014
Pale Moon v24.6.2 20 Jun 2014
Pale Moon v24.6.1 12 Jun 2014
Pale Moon v24.6.0 08 Jun 2014
Pale Moon v24.5.0 29 Apr 2014
Pale Moon v24.4.1 19 Mar 2014
Pale Moon v24.2.2 13 Dec 2013
Pale Moon v24.2.1 04 Dec 2013
Pale Moon v24.2.0 26 Nov 2013
Pale Moon v24.1.2 19 Nov 2013
Pale Moon v24.1.1 05 Nov 2013
Pale Moon v24.1.0 04 Nov 2013
Pale Moon v24.0.2 27 Sep 2013
Pale Moon v24.0.1 18 Sep 2013
Pale Moon v24.0 13 Sep 2013
Pale Moon v20.3 13 Aug 2013
Pale Moon v20.2.1 22 Jul 2013
Pale Moon v20.2 01 Jul 2013
Pale Moon v20.1 23 May 2013
Pale Moon v20.0.1 14 Apr 2013
Pale Moon v19.0.2 09 Mar 2013
Pale Moon v19.0.1 24 Feb 2013
Pale Moon v19.0 22 Feb 2013
Pale Moon v15.4.1 29 Jan 2013
Pale Moon v15.4 16 Jan 2013
Pale Moon v15.3.2 06 Dec 2012
Pale Moon v15.3.1 01 Dec 2012
Pale Moon v15.2 08 Oct 2012
Pale Moon v15.0 28 Aug 2012
Pale Moon v12.2 09 Jun 2012
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