- Pale Moon for Linux
- Installation:
- Building Pale Moon: GNU Linux
- Prerequisites
- Basic Dependencies
- GCC Compatibility
- Download Pale Moon for Linux
- System requirements
- Download links
- Other downloads
- Frequently Asked Questions
- General
- Installation
- Profiles, plugins, extensions.
- Problems
- Miscellaneous
- General
- Profiles, plugins, extensions.
- Problems
- Miscellaneous
- Installation and Uninstallation
- Manual method
- Installation
- Updates
- Uninstallation
Pale Moon for Linux
Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code a number of years ago, and focuses on efficiency and ease of use by carefully selecting 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.
Pale Moon aims to provide close adherence to official web standards and specifications in its implementation (with minimal compromise), and purposefully excludes a number of features to strike a good balance between general use, performance, and technical advancements on the Web.
With the current generation of mainstream browsers, there are also more obvious and not just «under the hood» differences: 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.
For additional information, check out the main site here.
For support, check out the forum here.
Installation:
It is not necessary to install Pale Moon to use it. Pale Moon for Linux is distributed as a xz-zipped tarball that can be extracted and run from any location on your system. If however you prefer to «install» it on your system, you can find instructions to do so here.
Additionally, you can install one of these fully-endorsed third-party builds of Pale Moon for Linux:
Pale Moon can also be installed directly from the default repositories of the following distros:
- Manjaro
- PCLinuxOS
- Puppy Linux
- MEPIS/MX-15
- Gentoo Overlays
- Slackbuilds
- TinyCore Linux
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Building Pale Moon: GNU Linux
These instructions are for building Pale Moon 29.4.1 and newer and assumes you want to build the latest release.
Prerequisites
Basic Dependencies
- GNU Compiler Collection (see below)
- Python 2.7.x
- Exactly Autoconf 2.13
- Yasm 1.2.0 or higher
- XZ
- Plenty of free disk space
- At least 6 GB RAM free depending on number of processor cores
(limit using the option) - Various distribution specific development packages
- General system requirements for running the application itself
GCC Compatibility
| Version | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 11.x | Pending Support | Waiting for EL7 version. |
| 10.x | Experimental Support | Build issues still crop up. |
| 9.x | Generally Considered Stable | Requires more tangible usage testing. |
| 8.x | Recommended | Mid-term tested. Currently in-use for BinOC Applications. |
| 7.x | Recommended | Long-term tested. Currently in-use for MCP Applications. |
| 6.x | Deprecated, Pending Unsupported | Bad track record, generally OK for Debian-based systems. |
| 5.x | Deprecated, Pending Unsupported | Mixed stability based on distributions and minor versions. |
| 4.9 | Deprecated, Pending Unsupported | Rock solid for older distributions and systems. |
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Download Pale Moon for Linux
Be sure to check out the latest Release notes.
System requirements
Pale Moon is specifically optimized for current-day processors and as such requires a reasonably modern system to run properly.
- A modern Linux distribution. The browser may not work well on old or LTS releases of Linux.
- A modern processor (must have SSE2 support as the absolute minimum).
- 1GB of RAM (2GB or more recommended for heavy use).
- GTK 2.24 or GTK 3.22+ (Not GTK 4)
- GLib 2.22 or higher
- Pango 1.14 or higher
- libstdc++ 4.6.1 or higher
Download links
Be sure to download the correct archive that matches the architecture of your OS. To use, simply extract the tarball anywhere you like and execute the «palemoon» file inside it, or follow the instructions here if you want to install manually. It is recommended that you extract Pale Moon to a user-writable location so that the internal updater can work as intended to keep your browser up to date.
Download x64 — GTK3 tarball (direct download)
Version: 29.4.1
Size: 36.12 MB
SHA-256: 938395661407b8038a571d48c3b3ef128b17d6071bec30a8624ad5e3f3ccbab2
PGP: [Sig]
Download x64 — GTK2 tarball (direct download)
Version: 29.4.1
Size: 36.13 MB
SHA-256: bdefcd1c0a7f32a29cfb3ace45fa74877a92fa03e358ebfc2311e6a6acf7c783
PGP: [Sig]
Other downloads
Unstable versions: here.
Source code: see the source code page here.
Older versions: here.
NOTE: Linux 32 bit binaries have been discontinued. However, your distribution (or one of the fantastic package contributors) may still offer 32 bit packages at their discretion. If they do you should remove the «generic» binary and install said package. Otherwise, to continue using the Pale Moon binaries we distribute, please update to a 64 bit distribution.
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Frequently Asked Questions
General
Installation
Profiles, plugins, extensions.
Problems
Miscellaneous
General
Pale Moon does not work on my computer!
If Pale Moon refuses to work try starting it from the terminal and see what error messages are displayed. If you are not able to resolve the message that is provided, it is recommended you post the problem and error message(s) on the forum.
The internal updater is not working!
Pale Moon ships with its own internal updater. However, in order for the updater to work properly Pale Moon must be extracted to a user-writable location. If the updater is reporting an update available but is not updating, please ensure that the «palemoon» directory is writable by your user account.
The -private flag does not work in Pale Moon.
The -private flag is designed in this way so as not to tell the user that Pale Moon is in private browsing mode. Try the -private-window flag instead.
HTML5 videos do not work!
Pale Moon requires FFmpeg (specifically the libavcodec component) to play HD H.264 videos. If you’re having trouble getting HD HTML5 videos to play, please ensure that you have the libavcodec package installed on your system. Note that on some distros, you will need to install libavcodec from a «non-free» repo.
Profiles, plugins, extensions.
Where is the profile of Pale Moon located?
It is located in
/.moonchild productions/pale moon (note the spaces).
Pale Moon cannot access my profile.
Failure to read the profile can happen due to two reasons:
In the case of a corrupted profile, check your profile folder for correct paths in the profile.ini file.
- No read/write permissions
Run the following in the terminal:
My plugins do not show up in Pale Moon.
Pale Moon checks for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Some distros place the plugins in /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins. If this is the case and Pale Moon is unable to find your plugins, you can do the following to symlink to the actual plugin directory:
If instead you need to put your plugins in a custom location, you can export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=
You can also put these export statements in /etc/profile, should you need them to work for all users.
Pale Moon reads the standard Firefox directories for global extensions, thus extensions may be globally installed. Extensions may be extracted into /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/ or for a specific user in
More details on extension compatibility can be found here.
Problems
Pale Moon’s menu entry does not show up or work properly.
- If the icon does not appear, try updating the icon cache by running the following:
- With some window managers you will have to run a command to update the menu entry. Please refer to the help pages and manuals for your window manager.
- If the menu entry tries to open «www.%u.com», then your window manager/desktop environment is not compliant with the freedesktop.org standards. A workaround would be to use Exec=palemoon instead of Exec=palemoon %u in the menu entry file.
- If the menu entry appears across multiple categories, then your window manager does not see the multiple categories as a priority preference. A workaround would be to use Categories= instead of Categories= . in the menu entry.
Pale Moon crashes if I try to click on any of the menus (File, Edit. )
This is not a Pale Moon problem, but rather a known bug with some versions of the «oxygen-gtk» theme. More details are here. The proper solution is to change to a different theme, or upgrade/downgrade oxygen-gtk theme to a known-working version (1.4.2 should work).
Note that on July 18th, 2015 the bug was finally fixed by the KDE developers, however this will likely continue to be an issue until the patch lands in distro repos. More details are here.
Miscellaneous
Is there a portable version of Pale Moon for Linux?
A Windows «PortableApps» style application is not possible due to filesystem permission restrictions on Linux.
However, if you mean «portable» as in no installation needed, Pale Moon for Linux is already in such a state! Just grab the archive you want, extract it anywhere you like and run the «palemoon» file.
Will there be a package for $distro?
At this time there are no plans to provide packages for specific Linux distros. However, Pale Moon has been packaged for some specific distros by 3rd party maintainers and is included in several distro’s repos. See the main page for an officially endorsed list.
For additional support, please head over to the forum.
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Installation and Uninstallation
It is not necessary to install Pale Moon to use it. It is distributed as an bzipped tarball which can be extracted anywhere and then launched by executing the «palemoon» file inside it. If for any reason you prefer to manually «install» Pale Moon, you can use the instructions below.
Manual method
These instructions below will extract Pale Moon to your home folder. You can extract Pale Moon to any other location by substituting you home folder with the path for the directory you want to extarct to. Please note that it is required that you extract to a user writable location in order for the internal updater to work!
Installation
- Uninstall all previous versions of Pale Moon, if any.
- Download the appropriate archive.
- Extract the archive.
- Create a symbolic link /usr/bin/palemoon that points to
/palemoon/palemoon:
- Create symbolic links for the icons in /usr/share/icons/hicolor:
- If you are using a Debian-based distro, you might want to inform update-alternatives about the presence of Pale Moon (and make it available as x-www-browser and gnome-www-browser). An arbitrary score of 100 has been used here, but you can adjust it according to your needs:
- If you want Pale Moon to use the dictionaries from hunspell, run the following:
- Make a menu entry by creating /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop in a text editor with the following contents:
After creating the menu entry, you may need to run the following command to get the icon to appear:
Updates
Updates are handled automatically by Pale Moon’s own internal updater provided that Pale Moon was extracted to your home folder or any other location writable by your user account. If for some reason you want to update manually:
- Delete the directory
/palemoon:
- Extract the contents of a newer Pale Moon archive to
- Remove the file associations from each user account:
- If you used a Debian-based distro and registered Pale Moon with update-alternatives, then remove it from the list of browsers maintained by it:
- Remove all other Pale Moon related files:
If you want hunspell/hyphen integration, you need to rerun the commands stated in the «Installation» section at this point.
Uninstallation
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