Pale Moon 20.2

Free Pale Moon is a light and extremely functional web browser
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Pale Moon is a light and extremely functional web browser. From the visual point of view, it is very similar to Mozilla Firefox; and the similarities don't end here, because they both actually use the same rendering engine, called Gecko. Therefore, Pale Moon inherits everything from this engine, especially its speed.

Using Pale Moon isn't difficult at all, provided you are familiar with any other web browser. It allows using tabs to browse multiple web pages at the same time. Moreover, it lets you create tab groups for better tab management. It also supports private navigation so that no traces of your web navigation are stored on your computer. Also, it has a built-in download manager that allows pausing and resuming download tasks. Moreover, it can manage your passwords efficiently so you will not need to remember any of them; and in case you think this may compromise your privacy, you can protect them with a single master password. Furthermore, it allows synchronizing bookmarks using Firefox Sync or by exporting them to external devices. And if you don't find the default functionality extensive enough, you can always expand it by installing add-ons. By the way, there is also protection against unauthorized installation of add-ons.

In general, although not as widely used as such major browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer, Pale Moon is just as good or even better. And it also has the advantage of having a relatively light installation package. Unfortunately, as it is based on Firefox, it depends on the release of new Firefox versions, so it will probably lag behind it in terms of development. Besides, the default configuration of the address bar and the tabs somewhat limits the amount of space left for web pages themselves.

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Pedro Castro
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Review summary

Pros

  • It is easy to use
  • It is fast
  • It has a light installation package
  • It allows synchronizing bookmarks
  • It can manage downloads
  • It supports private navigation
  • It allows installing add-ons

Cons

  • It is too visually similar to Firefox
  • The default configuration of the address bar and the tabs leaves too little space for actual web pages

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rating Andrew Crystall
Pale Moon is fast, has the good (pre-Australis) UI and runs the Firefox addons I need.

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I've used Pale Moon now for many years and I never look back to Firefox.
Pale Moon is a fast, stable and customizable OpenSource browser with security options which other browsers didn't have (like the intern XSS filter).
From my side, I highly recommend Pale Moon!

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rating Pippi Tnuss
Pale Moon on my computer was crashing a lot. Version 25 did not work with many of the Firefox add-ons that I had used before.

Used to be good, but not anymore. Will look for a new alternative to Firefox.

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