Still has its niche use though, you can have the portable version, put a NPAPI flash plugin inside, and play old flash games :D Or actually work with Canon's incredibly outdated extranet. So, all in all, this was a very good browser, that is now dead by lack of evolution. It's come to the point they need their very own plugin repository because the old XUL Mozilla ones are not guaranteed to work.Īnd Moonchild constant aggressiveness does nothing to bring in developers or solutions, search the BSD Palemoon debacle on the web. HTML5 ? No sir, so no point-to-point crypted transfer possible. OAuth2 ? Disnae work properly, so Office apps will go bonkers from time to time. Their buffleheaded refusal of HTML5 for security reasons may have some thuth as it basis, but the end result is that many, many modern sites are broken. 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.īack in the day of the real Mozilla, Pale Moon was the best branching. 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. Support for a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive extensionsĮxtensive and growing support for existing web standards Will continue to support NPAPI plugins like Flash and Java

Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing Support for easily-created lightweight themes (skins) Support for full themes: total freedom for any element's design Even though it uses the somewhat old-school user interface of Firefox browsers of old (version 4-28), the browser. Privacy-aware: zero ads no telemetry, spyware or data gatheringįamiliar, efficient, fully customizable interface

Supported by our user community, and fully non-profit Secure: Additional security features and security-aware development It provides a familiar and user-friendly browsing experience for all Windows users. It works particularly well for Windows platforms. Safe: forked from mature Mozilla code and regularly updated with the latest security patches Pale Moon is built with compatibility and support in mind. Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser 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.īased on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP) containing our own optimized layout and rendering engine (Goanna) 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.

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