Pale Moon 33.5.0

Pale Moon is a custom-built and speed optimized Firefox browser. The project uses contributed Open Source code to create a full-featured, speed optimized browser based on Firefox browser.

Having seen the advantages on other systems (e.g. Linux) with regards to programs being compiled specifically for the capabilities of the machine it is installed on, it became obviously clear that Windows users were at a disadvantage.

Mozilla only releases windows executables with maximum compatibility in mind, meaning that Firefox is made to run on as many different systems as possible, sacrificing efficiency and speed in the process to be compatible with, by current standards, absolutely ancient hardware.

Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows. That means you may be lose speed and efficiency when you use your browser.

That needs to change. Therefore Pale Moon project offers custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed and efficiency out of your browser!

Pale Moon Main features:

• Highly optimized for modern processors
• 100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
• Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas
• Able to use existing Firefox profiles, bookmarks and settings with this migration tool
• Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
• Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
• Support for HTML5 and WebGL (v4)
• Stability: experience fewer browser crashes.
• Support for SVG and Canvas, and downloadable fonts including WOFF
• Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)

Users will find a slightly more conservative approach to changes in the user interface in the Pale Moon browser. It, although very close to Firefox, is (now more obviously so than before) a different product. However, these differences in layout do not prevent anyone from configuring their browser interface to exactly the way they want it to look and work. Including like Mozilla Firefox’s default layout if they so wish.

Changes in Pale Moon 33.5.0 (2024-12-05):

• Implemented Regular Expression “match indices” (/d) feature.
• Added a way to programmatically clear the DNS cache in the browser, and added a button to the UI for it in about:networking.
• Updated handling of referrer policies to adhere to the updated spec.
• CSS font variations keywords no longer throw an error. See implementation notes.
• CSS border-radius will now also apply to element outlines.
• Improved the display of amount of cached web content in preferences when cache is being cleared.
• Improved the installer AVX check to skip on early versions of Windows 10 (which don’t support it).
• Updated NSS to 3.90.5 (unofficial) to pick up some security fixes.
• Refreshed the built-in list of effective top-level domains.
• Fixed several application crashes.
• Reduced unnecessary debug/informative messages in release builds (WebGL and CSP).
• Backed out building against ffmpeg 6.0 and ffvpx 6.0 for causing a video playback regression on full-range videos (levels 0-255).
• Cleaned up a large amount of leftover Boot2Gecko code, simplifying code paths throughout the code base.
• From this version forward we also publish language packs for Persian (Farsi), Hindi, Kannada and Vietnamese.
• Security issues addressed: CVE-2024-11693 and CVE-2024-11704 (DiD).

Changes in Pale Moon 33.4.1 (2024-11-05):

• Added a processor check to the 64-bit installer for Windows to check for AVX.
  Note: this check does not work on Window 7/8/8.1 and will allow installations on non-AVX processors there.
  Note: if you are running Windows 10 before build 2004 (before 20H1), this check may fail on AVX-capable CPUs and prevent installation.
• Improved handling of multipart/mixed documents. (CVE-2024-10461 and CVE-2016-2816) DiD
• Addressed CVE-2024-10463.

Homepage – https://www.palemoon.org

Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10,11
• Windows Server 2008 R2 or later
• A processor with SSE2 instruction support
• 1 GB of RAM
• At least 200 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space

Size: 29.6 MB

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