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 other operating systems in development), 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.
Please find links to our most popular individual download pages:
Looking for other download options like a package for a different operating system or portable version? Check the download menu at the top of this page!
Main features :
- Optimized for modern processors
- Based on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP) containing 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
- 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
- Support for easily-created lightweight themes (skins)
- Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
- Superior gradients and fonts
- Will continue to support NPAPI plugins like Flash and Java
- Support for a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive extensions
- Extensive and growing support for existing web standards
This browser, even though fairly close to Gecko-based browsers like Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey in the way it works, is based on a different layout engine and offers a different set of features. It aims to provide close adherence to a balanced set of official, common-sense web standards and specifications in its implementation (with minimal compromise), and purposefully excludes a number of features to strike a balance between general use, performance, and technical advancements on the Web.
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.
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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:
If you are interested in keeping updated of new releases of the Pale Moon web browser, please register on the official Pale Moon forum and subscribe to «Announcements», or subscribe to the news feed of the announcements board.
You may also be kept up to date by following the Twitter feed page by clicking the social media icon top-right of this page.
Download Pale Moon for Windows
New this release: Details about this update can be found in the Release notes.
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Download locations
You may download Pale Moon from our official mirrors or any of our recommended alternatives by clicking the appropriate choice below.
| Provider | Region | Download links | |
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 | Europe (secure * ) | Direct Download installer | Direct Download installer |
| | Americas | Direct Download installer | Direct Download installer |
| Asia | Direct Download installer | Direct Download installer |
 | Global | Visit website to download | Visit website to download |
 | Global | Visit website to download | Visit website to download |
 | Global | Visit website to download | Visit website to download |
* Secure servers are https-enabled for downloads. If you are visiting the https version of this download page it will download the binaries over https also.
GPG/PGP Signatures: [32-bit] [64-bit]
GPG/PGP Public Key: [asc]
7-ZIP packed versions
Portable versions
You’ve enjoyed Pale Moon at home, or at the office. You’ve wondered if you could use it elsewhere: in a library, on a public computer, in a cybercafГ©. You need something portable, that is as simple as plugging in your USB stick and running your favorite browser, with all your bookmarks and passwords at your fingertips? Then here is the answer: Pale Moon Portable!
Following the trend of other browsers, a portable installation has been created, which, thanks to winPenPack’s X-launcher that the portable launcher is based on, is completely self-contained. Nothing is stored on the host computer; your bookmarks, passwords, history, downloads, etc. stay neatly where they belong: on your stick.
Note: these portables are not meant to have file/URL associations or integration with the desktop. Their settings cater specifically to use on multiple hosts, run from removable media.
If you require desktop integration of any kind (including pinned taskbar entries, launching a mail application from mailto: links, remembering default download locations, etc.), it is recommended that you do not use Pale Moon Portable, but the normal desktop version instead! Pale Moon portable has been specifically designed to take with you on removable media with high wear and slow access, and its default settings reflect this. Using it on a stationary computer has a number of drawbacks and is not recommended.
- Download from the European mirror: 32-bit or 64-bit
- Download from the American mirror: 32-bit or 64-bit
- Download from the Asian mirror: 32-bit or 64-bit
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How do I use this?
Three simple steps:
- Download the Pale Moon Portable file (below)
- Extract the contents of the file to your USB stick in a folder of your choice:
Run the .EXE file and tell it where to unpack (should be an empty or new folder) - Run palemoon-portable.exe (not palemoon.exe) in the location you unpacked to
That’s it! Simple enough?
The first time you run Pale Moon Portable, it may take a fairly long time to load, because it creates a new personal profile on your USB stick for you. This can take some time, also depending on the speed of your stick — up to 30 seconds, usually. After that, it will be much faster to start.
Of course, you don’t have to use a USB stick; any writable medium would work : External harddisk, a networked drive, even an MP3 player if it allows you to access it as a drive in Windows.
Do note however that Pale Moon Portable doesn’t run from read-only media like CD-ROM or DVD-ROM; it needs write access to the location it is run from.
Updating the portable version
Checksums (hashes)
Other downloads
Source code: see the source code page here.
Older versions: here.
Pale Moon для Windows
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| Версия | Платформа | Язык | Размер | Формат | Загрузка | |
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 Pale Moon x86 | Windows | Русский | 34.9MB | .exe | ||
| Pale Moon x64 | Windows | Русский | 39.8MB | .exe | ||
| Pale Moon | MAC | English | 40.7MB | .dmg | ||
| Pale Moon | Android | Русский | 24.4MB | .apk | ||
| * скачайте бесплатно Pale Moon для Windows, файл проверен! | ||||||
Pale Moon (Пале мун) – бесплатный веб-браузер с открытым исходным кодом. Является вольной модификацией Mozilla Firefox. Внесенные изменения увеличили быстродействие обозревателя и сделали его простым для использования.
Функционал Pale Moon
В отличие от кроссплатформенного предшественника, Pale Moon оптимизирован только для операционной системы Windows. По словам разработчиков, это повышает производительность браузера на 25 %.
Pale Moon имеет множество полезных особенностей:
- ● Безопасность. Браузер использует современные алгоритмы и методы шифрования для защиты от вредоносного ПО. Если Pale Moon обнаруживает угрозу, он автоматически блокирует подозрительный веб-узел.
- ● Экономность. Браузер не потребляет много ресурсов системы, потому что разработчики отключили часть функционала. Также он экономит заряд батареи ноутбуков, планшетов и смартфонов.
- ● Высокая скорость. Pale Moon оптимизирован под большинство типов процессоров, что обеспечивает быструю прорисовку страниц и скриптов.
- ● Плагины. При желании пользователь может расширить функционал браузера: встроить VPN сервисы, сервисы для скачивания медиа или приложения для блокировки рекламы. Pale Moon поддерживает практически все дополнения, доступные для Mozilla Firefox, а также имеет собственный магазин расширений. Кроме того, на браузере доступны XUL и NPAPI плагины, которые большинство аналогов не поддерживают.
- ● Предпросмотр. Перед переходом на новую страницу браузер показывает окно предпросмотра: пользователь может не перейти, если заметит там нежелательный контент.
- ● Скины. Во встроенном магазине есть сотни тем на разный вкус. Также поддерживаются скины Mozilla Firefox.
- ● Персонализация. Браузер дает возможность настроить интерфейс под свои предпочтения. Пользователь может перемещать блоки, подбирать закладки и настраивать ленту новостей.
- ● Перенос настроек. При первом запуске пользователю предлагается в пару кликов перенести свой профиль из Mozilla Firefox в Pale Moon.
Для скачивания доступны 18 языковых пакетов, включая русский.
Pale Moon доступен на операционных системах Linux, Windows Vista и выше. Благодаря открытому исходному коду, были разработаны неофициальные версии для Android и mac OS.
Последнее официальное обновление – Pale Moon 28.1.0 – вышло в сентябре 2018 года.
