Pale Moon

Name: Pale Moon
Rating: 4 (10 reviews)

Version 32.3.0

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Pale Moon overview

Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser focused 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 our own optimized layout and rendering engine (Goanna)
Safe: forked from mature Mozilla 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
Familiar, efficient, fully customizable interface
Support for full themes: total freedom for any element's design
Support for easily-created lightweight themes (skins)
Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
Increased stability: experience fewer browser crashes
Support for many "legacy" Firefox extensions
Support for a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive extensions
Extensive and growing support for existing web standards

What’s new in version 32.3.0

Updated on Jul 13 2023

This is a major development update, further improving web compatibility.

Changes/fixes:

Added the (hidden) preference browser.history.menuMaxResults to allow users to control how many history entries are listed in the menu. Setting this to 0 will hide history menu entries altogether, and any positive number configures how many entries the entries are limited to. The default if not defined is 15.
Switched C++ language level used to C++14 on all platforms.
Web compatibility and scripting improvements:
- Implemented geometry .from* static constructors for web compatibility.
- Implemented partial support for CSS calc() in color keywords.
- Implemented Array "find from last" feature (findLast and findLastIndex).
- Implemented Object.hasOwn(object,property).
- Implemented several additional Intl API methods and functions. This improves web compatibility with sites making use of things like hourCycle, advanced DateTimeFormat, Intl.Locale, and Intl as a constructor.
Cleaned up some unused code.
Removed support for Mozilla "experiment" type extensions.
Improved the JavaScript garbage collector's sweeping. This should fix a few intermittent crashes and improve performance.
Implemented some structural changes to the source to make future porting easier, and preparing for switching to C++17.
Removed handling of symlinks for directory linstings to prevent potential security issues by walking symlinks when uploading. This effectively reverts a change made in Firefox 50 where this functionality was introduced. A case of "Not such a good idea after all" ;-)
Updated the list of extensions on Windows treated as "executable".
Security issues addressed: CVE-2023-37208.
Made preparations for for requiring Authorization in CORS ACAH preflight.
Since no browser honors this part of the spec at the moment this is left disabled until there is consensus among browsers.
UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 2 fixed, 2 rejected, 20 not applicable.

Information

License

Free

Size

44.7 MB

Developer’s website

https://www.palemoon.org/

Downloads

12209

App requirements

Intel 64
Mac OS X 10.7 or later
Version for Apple Silicon

0.0

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User Ratings

zlazkow

Jul 14 2023

32.3.0

4.0

Version: 32.3.0

Unfortunately this excellent browser needs a "helper" to work on Silicon Mac. It's unacceptable. It's been two years since M1 was released.

Septic Monkey

Mar 29 2023

32.1.0

Version: 32.1.0

I have to say, this is a speedy browser. Webpages load a lot quicker than Google & Firefox. But, the pop-ups come thick and fast, even when my preferences were set to block AND I installed two extensions. I really want to like this, but at the moment, the advertising is taking-up too much room on my screen within a few seconds and I can't see much.

Derekcurrie

32.0.0

Version: 32.0.0

v32.1.0 has been released. It is UNIVERSAL, running natively on Intel and ARM 64. Extensive RELEASE NOTES are here: https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

Dec 14 2022

29.0.1

Version: 29.0.1

Today Safari couldn't open a specific page on a local postal office website, in order to create shipping, to pay, make a label. Vivaldi couldn't open as well. Then tried Pale Moon, and voila!!!...opened. So PaleMoon is Excellent and certainly I will keeping and using it when needed. It is in continued development, an Open Source, it's a project community supported.

Alan B

Oct 6 2020

28.14.2

Version: 28.14.2

Can’t find link to macOS version on developer website :-(

Aug 6 2020

28.12.0

Version: 28.12.0

I downloaded, tried it. Still trying. Looks good so far. Fast. Pleasing soft colors. In about 5 minutes I really enjoyed using it.

Scion777

Aug 5 2020

Wow. Crashes on launch - on three different 10.6.8 Macs. How can the developer possibly release such a complete piece of junk? DON'T YOU HAVE A TEST BED FOR YOUR SOFTWARE?!!??

BillyDee203

Aug 4 2020

5.0

Been using it on Mac Mini 2012, 10.13.6 High Sierra and it's been a daily driver. No problems so far and kicked Firefox to the curb due to it phoning home as much as Windows phones M$.

Nihilism4U

Jul 16 2020

28.11.0

Version: 28.11.0

Haven't had any problems. Haven't imported bookmarks as Annie tried to. Obviously has a lot of moon themes and so forth. If you setup different browsers for different functions then add it to your list. I like to separate functions so a banking browser isn't used with a click on random stuff browser etc.

Annie-Walker

May 8 2020

28.9.2

1.0

Version: 28.9.2

Can't rate it because not able to keep it from crashing when attempting to important HTML Bookmark file from (Chrome). Long time Mac user/tech. Performed all the checks I know, (believe me), no luck. Will keep at it when I have more time to waste.

Ervins Strauhmanis

May 16 2023

strawberrythelovergod2018

Oct 27 2021

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