Pale Moon is a Goanna-based web browser available for various operating systems.
Pale Moon originated as a fork of Firefox, but has subsequently diverged. The main differences are the user interface, add-on support, and running in single-process mode
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- 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.
Website: www.palemoon.org
Support: Code Repository
Developer: Moonchild Productions
License: Mozilla Public License v2.0
Pale Moon is written in C, C++, JavaScript, and XML. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn XML with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Web Browsers | |
|---|---|
| Google Chrome | Secure web browser with minimalistic user interface |
| Firefox | Highly popular browser delivering safe, easy web browsing |
| ungoogled-chromium | Chromium without Google web services |
| Chromium | Open-source project behind Google Chrome |
| Opera | Popular graphical web browser and Internet suite |
| Vivaldi | Designed for staunch technologists and former Opera browser users |
| Tor Browser | Protect against tracking, surveillance, and censorship |
| Waterfox | Fast and privacy conscious web browser powered by Gecko, |
| Pale Moon | Goanna-based web browser |
| Konqueror | KDE's advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer |
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