Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

Sven123456789 reviewed v28.7.0 on Sep 4, 2019

Pros: Very quick. Lots of old school ad on's and themes. Old school over all feel to the u.i.

Cons: Really none so far.

Bottom Line: With this version I'm putting Pale Moon back as my default browser. Been having some issues with Waterfox lately. Long ago left Seamonkey, Firefox and Cyberfox. Not into Chrome, and forget about Edge and I.E.

Sven123456789 reviewed v28.0.0 on Aug 17, 2018

Pros: works well with very few problems. Lots of themes and add on's to choose from

Cons: Some sites had problems but only a couple.

Bottom Line: Pretty good. Been fooling around with this for a day now. Only couple sites had problems. All my add on's and themes came over which is a major plus. I love the Moonscape theme. Brings back that old school Netscape feel.

Aegis69 reviewed v27.8.3 on Mar 29, 2018

Pros: free

Cons: not modern

Bottom Line: I used this for a while, then tried cyberfox.. then just went back to firefox. At this stage there are good replacements for all the addons that went extinct with FF59, so Im back and all is working well.

asaenz reviewed v27.8.1 on Mar 6, 2018

Pros: Has been around for many years and still functional and works with many firefox addons (however not all sometimes due to version number differences and other differences)

Cons: Some firefox addons might not work and that is important to some users. Continued differences between firefox and Pale Moon almost since inception.

Bottom Line: I've used Pale Moon for many years and am satisfied with PM's performance relative to FF and other browsers similar to FF and will continue to use it unless it becomes unusable.

IJLV reviewed v27.1.0 on Feb 13, 2017

Absolutely terrible. Earlier versions of Pale Moon were very, very good. Have switched over to Cyberfox for all my browsing needs.

cyberguy reviewed v27.0.3 on Dec 20, 2016

Tried this. Seems to be highly compatible with Firefox addins.

Downside is it seems to carry over some of the process hanging of the faults that stopped me from using Firefox (close firefox, then restart - often does not restart and 2 instances hanging in memory). Too bad because I like FF (and some of its clones like this) over Chrome/IE/Edge/Opera.

I can only give it a 4 because I do not find it as useful as I would like.

gatorfan95 reviewed v26.4.1 on Sep 24, 2016

Still my go to browser, small light, no real problems on any site I visit. As others have said, what Fire Fox was in the beginning and should have been all along until the "gee whiz, let's add this to it" crowd started developing it.

Barbi reviewed v26.4.0 on Aug 24, 2016

Really liked the earlier versions. Too many issues with websites with Pale Moon using the Goanna engine. Prefer Cyberfox.

ComputerLuvr reviewed v26.4.0 on Aug 24, 2016

Ever since Pale Moon starting using the Goanna engine, many sites I use on a daily basis don't recognize it. Especially the site I use for my online daily banking. Don't have this issue at all whilst using SeaMonkey, Firefox, Cyberfox, K-Meleon. The earlier versions of Pale Moon were very, very good. And no, I'm not a Pale Moon hater. Not at all. The browser does show promise, IMHO it just needs further work. Will check in on newer versions and check the progress.

rallen52 reviewed v26.3.2 on Jun 27, 2016

i stopped using firefox because it would freeze up,this did the same thing,anyone know if they fixed this problem?

Sven123456789 reviewed v26.3.0 on Jun 21, 2016

Still giving a 4 because a couple sites are having issues with it. But for the most part, its pretty good. Got allot of old firefox themes and add on's to work with these newer versions. So its like browsing in the old days in allot of ways.

Sven123456789 reviewed v26.2.0 on Apr 6, 2016

Very good so far. Had problems with the initial 26 release. But these last couple releases seem to have fixed those problems.

Fred G. Sanford reviewed v26.1.1 on Mar 4, 2016

Is Pale Moon EVER going to work properly with MOST websites? And will they EVER update their ad blocker extension so that the browser doesn't take forever to load?

CyberDoc999 reviewed v26.1.0 on Feb 17, 2016

still using the Goanna engine

CyberDoc999 reviewed v26.1.0 on Feb 17, 2016

still using the Goanna engine

GrailKnight reviewed v26.1.0 on Feb 16, 2016

What Firefox should have been had it a competent development team that listened to its users.

Palemoon v26.1.0 x64 runs just fine on my Win7 & Win10 machines which is the name of the game. Lower memory usage then Fx IMO.

CyberDoc999 reviewed v26.0.3 on Feb 11, 2016

Cyberfox is much better

CyberDoc999 reviewed v26.0.3 on Feb 11, 2016

Cyberfox is much better

Sven123456789 reviewed v26.0.3 on Feb 8, 2016

If I had reviewed this when version 26 first came out, I would of given this a 3. But these last couple of patches have fixed the problems I had with some sites. Been using this for a day now. No problems with 26.0.3 so far.

kstev99 reviewed v26.0.2 on Feb 3, 2016

While I've always liked Pale Moon, beginning with version 26 they dumped the Mozilla Gecko engine and started using their own Goanna engine.

I use a portable version, and since updating I have been experiencing a very unresponsive browser. I have reverted to an older version and hopefully they iron out some problems in the future

Sven123456789 reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 3 on Dec 8, 2015

Still a great browser. No problems at all visiting any websites.

GrailKnight reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 3 on Dec 3, 2015

Working fine so far although changing the tabs to a 3d White shadow was unnecessary.

Barbi reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Nov 23, 2015

Pale Moon freezes constantly and I have to continually close the browser. Not so with Firefox. CTR is indeed very helpful and useful. Pale Moon's code is also comprised primarily of Firefox code and when I visit many, many sites with Pale Moon they tell me I need an up to date browser! The earlier versions were very, very good. But, not anymore. Another very good alternative is Cyberfox.

Cerky reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 11, 2015

CTR is indeed some kind of stupid bandage, because if Mozilla would not have removed customization features to be attractive to total n00bs and Chrome users, there would be first no need for an add-on like that and forks like Pale Moon would not be necessary.

IJLV reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 10, 2015

Classic Theme Restorer IS NOT a lame bandage. It is a very useful extension.
Firefox is also fully customizable. I find it more secure for my banking needs.
Every time I have tried to use the current version of Pale Moon browser for my banking needs it keeps asking me for a more updated version of Firefox.
Don't have that issue at all whilst using Cyberfox or Waterfox.
Pale Moon isn't a unique fork of Firefox and it's GUID is not unique either.
Pale Moon contains a lot of code from Firefox. Which is fact.
And Pale Moon wouldn't exist without Mozilla's Firefox. Also a fact.
I did really like the earlier versions of Pale Moon and do wish the developer success for the future.
Also, I use it from time to time for casual browsing.

jonkor reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 5, 2015

No Firefox hater here! Means i totally understand why Mozilla "must clone Chrome"!

Please guys keep in mind that Mozilla is in direct competition to the big one's! Customization features made Mozilla's reputation of slow, unstable and bloated! So, to gain market share, they had to try something new.

And so many people are loving Google Chrome because it offers exactly that. It is simple, not complex, has an appealing design, unusual tab form and gets out of your way!

If you take a look at Mozilla's input.mozilla.org feedback system, people complain often "make it like Chrome" or "please add a feature like Chrome"!

So, what do you guys expect Mozilla to do in the first place? Chrome is the market leader! And to stay competitive it is logically that Mozilla tries to emulate the Chrome behavior, while making sure the existing user base is not alienated as much as possible.

Granted, Mozilla could have done a way better job, they took a risk which did not work out in the end. But they still have a large number of people around, who love exactly the things they have done. Never forget that, this is not bad or wrong, it is if anything at all, debatable!

Why i am using Pale Moon? Because i do not agree with all above! But stop bashing Mozilla, without them, Seamonkey and Pale Moon would not be around, they have earned at least a little bit respect for that!

Mozhart reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 5, 2015

Einfach nur geiles teil!

Grüße aus Good Old Germany!

NolanIrisa reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 5, 2015

Simple, lightweight, not officially Mozilla!

Have enough of big corporation browser crap! Been there, never will go back there!

Bye bye Firefox, dropped you today!

Waltium reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 5, 2015

Ignore the haters, haters gonna hate, Pale Moon is not the first and not the last which is affected by this s***-storm mentality which the WWW of today gives us!

Today's web is filled with immature children and even adults which have never learned to behave themselves!

During the Amiga age people had more of a brain than today!

Love Pale Moon and dislike all the flamers, s***stormer's and haters!

Do not agree, count in my 5 stars friends :)

DenielSan reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 5, 2015

5 stars, because it simply fulfills my needs!

VivaldiMoon reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 5, 2015

Pale Moon and Vivaldi are my preferred browsers.

Switched over to Pale Moon as Mozilla tried to make a Chrome similar experience. Bad move Mozilla, most people wanted an experience with geek features and no minimalistic experience like Chrome.

Pale Moon has indeed some trouble with webpages, Dropbox with standard uploader for example or missing MSE functions which enable only 720P video on Youtube. What i do like of Pale Moon: The maker is fond of power users, and he has an ideology which is against closed source features like MSE which leads to DRM! But that are small problems which have no real impact.

Pale Moon is for sure no outdated browser or frozen in time one. For example on Github the next chosen set of HTML5 forms have been selected to be ported over. Instead Pale Moon is a browser for us conservative guys which do not need bleeding edge web standards

But what is indeed a problem is, as Pale Moon has only one lead programmer, the project will have a shorter life span as compared with Vivaldi or Firefox. That can not be denied, so if Moonchild falls out, the chance that someone takes over is small.

If you want to criticize something, you can do that point! But what has that to do with Vivaldi?

As Mozilla is hellbent on destroying Firefox for Desktop to make it 1:1 cross portable for mobile too, they remove more and more desktop related functions and hope that add-on devs bring back those features!

And if i may remember you all:

https://blog.mozilla.org...eloping-firefox-add-ons/

http://www.dedoimedo.com...efox-addons-future.html

Mozilla does all for Chrome parity! So, i see more future in a browser like Vivaldi which may be Chromium based but adds features which oldskool Opera and Firefox once has possessed but which have been removed for Chrome parity and mobile device compatibility! For the ones who dislike closed source, Otter Browser would be the future alternative to switch over.

Anyway, as long as Pale Moon exists and until the point where no bugfixes or feature additions can be ported over because of total incompatibility, 5 stars from me!

And to the haters, if you hate Pale Moon, do not write here. You only want people not to leave Firefox which has a constantly shrinking market share. You are desperate you lose your favorite toy soon! How was it this time? 0.35 market share gone again?

Orhin reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 5, 2015

Oh look, the 4chan brigade of Firefox fanboys is back!

Classic Theme restorer IS a lame bandage. That features never should have been removed from the core product at all! Pale Moon delivers you exactly that features still integrated into the core product.

That pages do widly not work is nonsense! Thanks to the Pale Moon compatibility modes Firefox and Gecko strings are getting re-added which solves most of possible problems which appear without using that strings.

CTR gives everyone the illusion Firefox is still customizable, but in fact it is not. Without that add-on you can do almost no advanced toolbar customization!

Who wants a superior browser without many add-ons (a browser is no toy, i never understoold guys who stuffed their browser full of junk) uses Pale Moon. If you want a lame product which copycat's Chrome, chooses Cyberfox or Firefox or Waterfox!

Herzel reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 4, 2015

Early versions of this browser were really good.
Am using Cyberfox and it's up to date.
Pale Moon still does not recognize many sites that I am normally use.
Don't have those issues with Cyberfox or Firefox.

bibbi reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 4, 2015

"Do not get confused by that Anti Pale Moon Zealots"
I am not a anti Pale Moon zealot.
I simply do not like the browser.
Even K-Meleon works better than this browser.
Pale Moon also crashes way too many times on my computer.
I've used Cyberfox, Firefox and also tried SeaMonkey with excellent results.

ComputerLuvr reviewed v26.0.0 Beta 2 on Sep 4, 2015

Cyberfox, SeaMonkey, Waterfox, and Firefox are superior browsers to Pale Moon. Their code is up to date.
Classic Theme Restorer is not a lame bandage.
Firefox is very customizable.
Earlier versions of Pale Moon were good.
This version is NOT.
As an IT professional I do not recommend Pale Moon to my clients.
And without Mozilla Firefox Pale Moon would not exist.
From the developer of Pale Moon himself
"Pale Moon 25 includes code from 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, (not so much) 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34."
Pale Moon does indeed contain a lot of Firefox code.

Orhin reviewed v25.7.0 on Aug 28, 2015

Happy with Pale Moon as i do not like add-ons very much, and Australis is just a lame Chrome rip-off! Classic theme restorer is a lame bandage for simulating customization features again, but only Pale Moon features native customization features inside.

Do not get confused by that Anti Pale Moon Zealots, if you do not want a lame Chrome clone and are not interested in many add-ons, Pale Moon is your tool of choice :)

CyberDoc999 reviewed v25.7.0 on Aug 27, 2015

not good it erased my firefox settings and bookmarks

CyberDoc999 reviewed v25.7.0 on Aug 27, 2015

not good it erased my firefox settings and bookmarks

Sven123456789 reviewed v25.7.0 on Aug 27, 2015

Still a great browser. No problems with Add on's or themes.

gregzeng0 reviewed v25.7.0 on Aug 27, 2015

Will not synchronize my settings at all. Asks for strange device I do not have.

bibbi reviewed v25.6.0 on Aug 15, 2015

Had an issue with Pale Moon and contacted the developer. He told me that the sites that I visit were the issue and not Pale Moon. Cyberfox works just fine on those sites and even K-Meleon, Waterfox, Firefox. I give this browser a pass. Liked the older versions of the browser, but, not this one.

Herzel reviewed v25.6.0 on Aug 15, 2015

Slows down my computer and I don't keep many tabs open either. Many add-ons I like to use don't work anymore with Pale Moon. Tried and really like Cyberfox and it's up to date.

ComputerLuvr reviewed v25.6.0 on Aug 15, 2015

There are more issues with Pale Moon. It's not only the add-ons that are causing issues. Still outdated code and many sites still don't work properly with Pale Moon. Many sites I visit tell me I need a more up to date browser whilst using Pale Moon. Check out the UA string. Firefox, SeaMonkey, Cyberfox, Waterfox are far better alternatives and have more up to date code. Also as an IT professional I do not recommend Pale Moon to my clients at this juncture. The earlier versions of this browser were excellent. Hopefully, the developer will use a more up to date code in the next version. Needs improvement.

In addition you can indeed customize Firefox. I myself use Classic Theme Restorer. And I can really tweak it to my liking. Same with the other browsers I have mentioned.

Orhin reviewed v25.6.0 on Aug 3, 2015

It may be true that many add-ons do no longer work with Pale Moon. As that browser goes now it's own way, be warned that if you want to use add-ons this will not be your browser of choice.

If you want a browser without add-ons or without many add-ons and are only interested in UI customization, the thing which Mozilla removed out of Firefox, Pale Moon is your browser of choice.

ComputerLuvr reviewed v25.5.0 on Jun 11, 2015

Pale Moon has changed its UI and also its code. A lot of add-ons/plug ins that worked with Firefox do not work with Pale Moon. Am in IT and test browsers on a daily basis, including computer hardware/software/OSs Use this browser daily on an additional computer at home too. Don't use it on my personal computer which I use for daily use. My two computers at home are both up to date. IMHO and professional opinion Cyberfox, Watefox, Firefox and SeaMonkey are more secure as Gecko based browsers. Also at work, 30 colleagues and me all have come to the same conclusion. The earlier versions were excellent. And in conclusion this browser needs improvement.

@gatorfan95
"For those of you complaining about "security". I've been using this browser for all my banking and financial needs for years. Never had any problems. Use the browser you want to, but don't complain about this one if you don't use it."

How else can people write a review here? They've obviously tested the browser out including myself and my colleagues.

Herzel reviewed v25.5.0 on Jun 11, 2015

Use this browser and find it not secure at all for my banking needs. Cyberfox is superior to this browser as well as Firefox and SeaMonkey. A lot of sites I visit ask for a newer version of the browser when using Pale Moon. IMHO not an improvement at all.

Sven123456789 reviewed v25.5.0 on Jun 11, 2015

Maybe the best browser nowadays. Very fast. No problems on any websites I use. All my old firefox add on's and themes work. What else can you ask for.

Sven123456789 reviewed v25.5.0 on Jun 11, 2015

Very good

gatorfan95 reviewed v25.5.0 on Jun 10, 2015

This browser has been 5 stars since I started using it. It's light, fast, far better than Firefox or any of the other FF clones I have tried, and works with all my plug ins. This is a nice update, the list of changes can be found here

http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

The 64 bit version can be found here

http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-win64.shtml

For those of you complaining about "security". I've been using this browser for all my banking and financial needs for years. Never had any problems. Use the browser you want to, but don't complain about this one if you don't use it.

IJLV reviewed v25.4.1 on May 31, 2015

I need a more up to date and secure browser. Just because users find other browsers better than Pale Moon does not make them trolls or haters. Pale Moon has some major issues that need to addressed. Many sites keep on asking for a more up to date browser when I view them. Look at the UA string used for Pale Moon i.e.
Gecko/20150509 Firefox/31.9 PaleMoon/25.4.1
Have no issues viewing other sites when using Watefox or Cyberfox and even Firefox. Earlier versions of Pale Moon were very good. This version isn't.

Herzel reviewed v25.4.1 on May 31, 2015

Used to use Pale Moon. This version is simply awful. Don't find it very secure at all for my banking needs. Am now using Cyberfox instead.

Sven123456789 reviewed v25.4.1 on May 29, 2015

Amazing how many Firefox trolls are on here. Ignore the haters. Pale Moon is fine. Been on hundreds of websites (Including the big boys- Facebook, Twitter, Google) no problems whatsoever. The 64 bit version I had a problem or two, so I went back to this 32 bit version. All of my add on's work fine. If you like what Firefox used to be, this is a good browser to change to.

bibbi reviewed v25.4.1 on May 23, 2015

Was using Firefox for many, many years and tried Pale Moon. The older versions were very good. This new version is absolutely terrible. Outdated code and many sites don't recognize it.

Fred G. Sanford reviewed v25.4.1 on May 16, 2015

nilst2006 - could not agree with you more.

gatorfan95 reviewed v25.4.1 on May 15, 2015

This has been my browser of choice for years, I don't see any reason to change. It's Firefox without the bloated crap Mozilla has been adding to it. 5 stars

Sven123456789 reviewed v25.4.0 on May 8, 2015

Still a good browser. For people having problems with add on's, just go to that add on's website. Click on- view other versions and you should see an older versions of that add on that will work with Pale Moon. If you dont see view older versions, toggle down to the bottom of that page to version Information. Once you find a version that works, I just right click over the download button and save target as, and than you have a copy of that add on for future use. Its a pain, but blame Firefox for all this bs with its constantly changing formats and what not.

Fred G. Sanford reviewed v25.3.2 on Apr 28, 2015

The "emergency update" in v25.3.2 is bizarre since Mozilla fixed their recent problem with improperly signed extensions within hours of it happening. Doubly bizarre since a lot of those extensions can no longer be installed to Pale Moon anyway since the browser broke off its compatibility with Firefox.

nilst2006 reviewed v25.3.2 on Apr 28, 2015

Once a good browser, now pure crap !

Tallpaultn reviewed v25.3.2 on Apr 27, 2015

Firefox & Cyberfox simply get the job done & are carrying the banner these days for my needs.

Sven123456789 reviewed v25.3.2 on Apr 27, 2015

I've only had a few sites have probs with the way it see's this version. But I understand the complaints. I still use pale moon, but have converted fully to Seamonkey for most of my browsing since it seems to be inline with firefox as far as the latest version compatibility.

Fred G. Sanford reviewed v25.3.1 on Apr 22, 2015

Completely agree with the previous two reviewers. Pale Moon used to be my favorite browser, but the dev has broken off compatibility with Firefox, rendering too many websites unreachable and too many extensions nonfunctional. Time to find another browser.

ghammer reviewed v25.3.1 on Mar 25, 2015

Used to like and run PM.
However, time marches on and some sites do not display fully/properly, a few of my plugins don't work, and I do like syncing between devices with FF and Chrome.

Good luck.

guru_v reviewed v25.3.1 on Mar 25, 2015

I have actually stopped using Palemoon, as many sites will no longer render properly, and some disallow getting into comments, with the latest versions released.

I also wrote the developer about a specific problem which keeps some sites from loading. He quickly and courteously gave me the answer that, since these site were not set up correctly, they were at fault, and he would not be changing the coding. I replied that Waterfox works on these same sites, but he did not budge.

The author has his rights, but his statements reminded me of when I used to defend Opera [Presto-based] for these same sorts of things, and was always given grief because I thought that by keeping to standards, the world could slowly be brought into line. Well, that worked out great...

Not only is Opera no more, Google has decided to not follow standards, and it is getting them lots of praise.

What I would say is that Palemoon is great if you wish to live that way, but it is getting harder to do all the time, and Palemoon has but one dev, and less market share than Opera had.

Great, if you can deal with the intentional problems.

gatorfan95 reviewed v25.2.1 on Jan 30, 2015

Simply the best

JethroB reviewed v25.2.0 on Jan 16, 2015

Palemoon has ceased XP support as of version 25.0.0 released 2014-10-10
http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

Sven123456789 reviewed v25.2.0 on Jan 15, 2015

Pale Moon is just fine. Most of my add on's from firefox work. Couple that i did have problems with, I just went to the add on site for that add on, cursor'd down and found the link for older versions of that add on. From there u can see older versions that do work with Pale Moon. No stability issues. I use the 64 bit version, so if your having probs with the 32 bit version, maybe give this a try. Plus has the old firefox UI. And the 5 or 6 complete themes i use from the firefox days, work with Pale Moon.

landfish reviewed v25.2.0 on Jan 15, 2015

@ Orhin
"one does not have to install an add-on to get them back"
Which is lucky as that add-on probably wouldn't work like most of them don't anymore. Was good once but not much chop now.

Orhin reviewed v25.1.0 on Jan 7, 2015

No reason for existing? It has no Australis and keeps all the customization functions which have been deleted out of Firefox and one does not have to install an add-on to get them back.

DrTeeth reviewed v25.0.2 on Oct 27, 2014

Competent browser, no better or faster than Firefox. Pointless. Low rating as it has no reason to exist.

ComputerLuvr reviewed v25.0.1 on Oct 16, 2014

Pale Moon 25.0.1 Browser used to be very good. A lot of extensions and add ons that used to work with it are broken. Hopefully that will be resolved. And quite a few sites don't recognize Pale Moon. Tested this on 35 computers. The earlier versions of Pale Moon were quite excellent. Sad that the developer is going in this direction. Will wait and see.

Sven123456789 reviewed v24.7.2 on Sep 16, 2014

Maybe the best browser available nowadays. Have had no problems of any sort. If you like the good old days of Firefox, this is the browser for you.

Orhin reviewed v24.7.2 on Sep 12, 2014

Another one of the last few Browsers which refuse to allow Google to influence them! Customization for the people instead of featureless crap ware like the Google Chrome clones from Opera and Mozilla!

Highly recommended :)

cltx99 reviewed v24.7.2 on Sep 12, 2014

An excellent browser and I hope it stays that way.

ComputerLuvr reviewed v24.7.1 on Sep 6, 2014

Used to be a good browser. Uses too much RAM and crashes a lot. Did a testing of the browser on twelve test computers. Have uninstalled it from my home computer. My browsers of choice are Firefox and my default browser is SeaMonkey. Don't see a future in this browser since it's maintained by one developer. Also when FF24 ESR goes to 31 in October, I highly doubt that the developer will be able to maintain the browser.

edit: Pale Moon has recently changed its' GUID and some add-ons no longer work with Firefox extensions. Palemoon 25 beta is no longer based on the Firefox UI. This browser used to very good. Sadly that no longer is the case.

nilst2006 reviewed v24.7.1 on Aug 23, 2014

A good browser with sane UI !

finn reviewed v24.7.1 on Aug 22, 2014

After trying out Palemoon a few years ago I haven't for a second looked back. Palemoon is - as you probably know - a 64 bit clone of FF and handles many open tabs without any problems (I have 6 gigs of RAM). Can't recommend it enough! All my extensions and plugins work perfectly in Palemoon. Great browser. Love it!

cltx99 reviewed v24.7.1 on Aug 7, 2014

An excellent browser. It has been my default browser for months. It still has the "old" FF design and works better than the current FF. For some reason I keep Chrome as a secondary browser and it can't touch Pale Moon or FF.

DaComboMan reviewed v24.7.1 on Aug 7, 2014

+ 1

Muy bien!

Sven123456789 reviewed v24.7.1 on Aug 6, 2014

Rock solid browser. Place to go to recover from the Firefox nightmare.

gatorfan95 reviewed v24.7 on Jul 31, 2014

I havent used FF in almost a year, so I dont know about all the changes you are talking about. Why havent I used it in all this time? Pale Moon. No better browser out there..

cltx99 reviewed v24.7 on Jul 30, 2014

Simply excellent and all of my extensions work on my 11.6 notebook, unlike FF. Don't get me wrong I like FF very much, but not so much since they changed the design. I also had to deal with frequent crashing with the new FF. Palemoon is a cut above and my default browser.

LakotaElf reviewed v24.6.2 on Jun 16, 2014

Love Pale Moon, with the new looks of Firefox and the way it works as far as I am concerned they ruined it.

I have been using Palemoon for along time, never let me down and I will not look back to Firefox as yesterday has nothing new to say to me.

If you want a good browser that works well and does all that FireFox did and you can use all extensions and plugins, then this browser is it...When you use the best, get rid of the rest, simple as that...

max.z reviewed v24.6.1 on Jun 10, 2014

Nice looking. Lean and tight. Efficiency is a good thing. Have already left Firefox, and not looking back. My addons work and most controls are familiar. Only problem was with disappearing menu buttons, but importing my data manually instead of using the import program solved that. I think any other glitches that appear will be cleaned up, so I'm not worried about leaving Firefox.

Speaking of which... Firefox had become so bloated, and the policy behind the coding and updating so detached and so uninterested in the users' opinions, that I felt it was time to move on. Glad I did, actually.

Zootopia3001 reviewed v24.4.2 on Apr 2, 2014

Slower to start than Mozilla Firefox. However, I will officially be going to Pale Moon eventually when the 30 something ESR release comes out. Still using Firefox 17 ESR... New bugs in javascript engine since Firefox 18(and v24 ESR) still being worked out. Not at all happy with Mozilla's decision of going the way of a chrome-like interface, something of which Pale Moon won't be doing.

mikebratley reviewed v24.4.0 on Mar 11, 2014

good stuff

kstev99 reviewed v24.4.0 on Mar 10, 2014

Great Browser! 64 bit version is clean and fast, and best of all it's NOT CHROME.

Music4Ever reviewed v24.3.1 on Feb 3, 2014

@Casper75 - Why on earth give it one star based on what you feel could happen in the future? You gave it five stars a few months back.

@Dr. Teeth - Why one star when its as least as good as Firefox and IMO is faster & has the interface FF abandoned? Also has a 64 bit version available.

It's freeware & probably the best browser around.

stephenstud reviewed v24.3.1 on Feb 2, 2014

Very nice, and quick browser! I'm running the 64bit version, and all I can say is very nice:) I have been beta testing for various companies for years. And I have found that when you get people complaining, that's when I really want to test it....lol

Sven123456789 reviewed v24.3.0 on Jan 29, 2014

Good browser. Not sure why all the complaints. You want speed, use the 64 bit version of Pale Moon. Which is faster than the 32 bit version of this or Firefox. Been waiting for a non beta 64 bit version of Firefox. Till than, this is the best option.

Casper75 reviewed v24.2.2 on Dec 31, 2013

It used to be good but really you have to ask yourself how soon will It be before Pale Moon is dead seeing that It's maintained by a single developed, We have seen this with K-Meleon & Waterfox is barely being maintained as It is the best browsers I've found is Cyberfox or Seamonkey which I've been using on & off since it's release.

DrTeeth reviewed v24.2.2 on Dec 11, 2013

Very arrogant developer and no significant speed increase over vanilla Firefox - tested on many PCs.

Tallpaultn reviewed v24.2.1 on Dec 6, 2013

@plasticpig72
I'm using the 32bit version of Cyberfox & love it. It works equally as well as Mozilla Firefox on WinVista SP2--it's based on Mozilla Firefox Version 25.0.
Pale Moon works ok for me, but not any better than Mozilla Firefox 26.0b10, if as good.

plasticpig72 reviewed v24.2.1 on Dec 4, 2013

Bala, I cannot agree with your comments about Palemoon. I have found it to be superb. I have also tried Ice Dragon and found it to be absolutely terrible. That said I have just tried another one you mentioned 'Cyberfox' and I am impressed with the speed, very impressed, so I will give that one a longer go to see what it is like longer term.

Bala7 reviewed v24.2.0 on Nov 26, 2013

Was good a while back but now the dev has achieved a measure of success and become quite arrogant. Palemoon has very poor built-in JavaScript controls.
There are other Firefox derivatives offering much better JS controls such as 8pecxstudios "Cyberfox" and Comodo "Icedragon" and of course the magnificent SeaMonkey.

Music4Ever reviewed v24.1.2 on Nov 20, 2013

My favourite browser.

Zoroaster reviewed v24.0.2 on Sep 30, 2013

I agree with cltx99, Pale Moon (here as well anyway) is slightly longer to load than Firefox. I'm comparing Pale Moon 24.02 64-bit with Firefox 24.
But a second or two is quickly forgotten once I start moving around with Pale Moon, with no doubt snappy, fast, fluid. This is the 64-bit effect, but not only: the browser takes advantage of what a modern cpu has to give. Moreover, the developer is concerned with a more classical approach of Mozilla's browser, seems to me he is not of the lot of those who wish to tailor Firefox both on a simplified view for the masses and a quest of fashion as for the display, i.e. the staus4evar add-on is integrated in Pale Moon (which is an exception, otherwise no extra included add-on).
I have switched from Firefox to Pale Moon, it is in fact moving in the neighborhood only, within the lands of Mozilla.

cltx99 reviewed v24.0.2 on Sep 28, 2013

In my last review I gave Pale Moon a 5 star. After a while, I noticed that it was a bit slower in opening my start page than FF 24. So, I knocked a star off. It's a very good browser, but I'll stay with FF, at least for now.

krgood reviewed v24.0.1 on Sep 19, 2013

Pale moon 24.01 started crashing today, just stops working. No error messages other than the one that says it stopped working. Restart does the same thing after about 2 min. No changes(add ins) made.

cltx99 reviewed v24.0 on Sep 17, 2013

Simply excellent with slight speed improvement.

gatorfan95 reviewed v20.3 on Aug 13, 2013

This version is noticeably faster than the last version (64 bit). After years of being a FireFox fan, I've stopped using it all together and moved exclusively to Pale Moon. You can tout whatever other browser you want to, this is simply the best out there.

mynamehere reviewed v20.2.1 on Jul 8, 2013

The best Firefox clone out there (I use 64 bit). The only ding I can think of is that I've run into a couple sites that won't load, but will in FF portable. I tried running with add-ons disabled, but the results were the same. Other than that, I've had basically zero problems over the last few years.

NyaR reviewed v20.2 on Jul 4, 2013

What firefox should be

Sven123456789 reviewed v20.2 on Jul 1, 2013

Its good. I use this as a second browser to firefox. Never had problems with this. All my add on's seem to work. Most plug ins also. Worth a look for sure.

jotte_ct reviewed v20.0.1 on Apr 12, 2013

Very nice and fast release.
Using the portable x64 with only 3..4 add-ons (don't need more) and it is working like a charm!!!

gatorfan95 reviewed v20.0.1 on Apr 11, 2013

Still the best FF clone out. A long list of improvements and changes in this version can be found here

http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml

and here

http://forum.palemoon.or...opic.php?f=1&t=2392

OmAleY reviewed v20.0.1 on Apr 11, 2013

Still the best. Feels even faster, with this release.

Yelan V. reviewed v19.0.2 on Apr 2, 2013

Awesome speed and moreso stability in this browser. Browser crashes are a thing of the past for me!

I don't care what benchmarks say when the browser itself is snappier and smoother to use - benchmarks are all well and good but if you're just looking at what 1 library can spit out you're not testing the browser as a whole. Kraken/Sunspider are really outmoded by now, too. JS is no longer the main concern for fast browsing.

Casper75 reviewed v19.0.2 on Mar 17, 2013

Artem S. Tashkinov for your Information If you are looking at FF a knock Off then you may be Interested to know that Waterfox is more of a FF clone than Pale Moon Is, I'm using PM because the SeaMonkey I knew & loved has become very disappointing you no longer have the choice not to Install Chatzilla.

FatBastard reviewed v19.0.2 on Mar 11, 2013

Very nice but not as good as Chrome.

Artem S. Tashkinov reviewed v19.0 on Mar 10, 2013

The most useless knock-off of Mozilla Firefox I've ever seen.

I've just compared Palemoon to Firefox using Kraken and SunSpider benchmarks and in both cases Firefox was at least 12% faster.

I have a second generation Intel Core i5 CPU and lots of RAM, so my computer is quite fresh and powerful.

OmAleY reviewed v19.0 on Feb 23, 2013

Best browser EVER!!!

It even leaves functions out that's a risk for your security.

Get the X64 version. It's even greater...

gatorfan95 reviewed v19.0 on Feb 22, 2013

Updtate:
19.01 was released on 24 Feb to fix he following issues:

Fix for "Open bookmark in side bar" parsing error preventing bookmarks from being loaded in the side bar;
Fix for "double padlock" if a secure site would not have a favicon (would create a padlock in front and behind the ID panel text);
Fix for the https mixed content icon being paletted - it's been recreated;
Fixed a setting so no unnecessary code walking is done for the otherwise disabled accessibility features;
Fix (inherent) for compatibility issues with add-ons and themes with a minimum version of "19.0" on x64.
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Updated to the Gecko 19 engine. Before you all start screaming about your Add-ons breaking. from the release notes:

"Add-ons and themes may need to be updated since the UI code has changed. I'm aware that this may be inconvenient for users with a lot of add-ons installed, but the core engine changes are of too great importance not to push forward. Add-ons compatible with the v15 code base may not work properly or at all on the new release because of the far-reaching changes to the rendering engine."

robmanic44 reviewed v15.4.1 on Jan 29, 2013

This browser certainly lacks some of flexibility of Firefox, but it also avoids some of the headaches. It took me about 30 minutes to get it working like I wanted.

DrTeeth reviewed v15.4 on Jan 17, 2013

Neither the 32 bit nor 64 bit version runs any better or faster than plain Firefox on any PC tested.

FatBastard reviewed v15.4 on Jan 17, 2013

Pale Moon is better than the original (Firefox) and it's available in 64-bit.

gatorfan95 reviewed v15.4 on Jan 16, 2013

An excellent alternative to FF. I have never been disappointed in it. Fast, reliable and plays well with all my FF add-ons

Music4Ever reviewed v15.4 on Jan 16, 2013

Updated to fix several security issues - Excellent ~

@DrTeeth - I'm quite sure you are very wrong.

FatBastard reviewed v15.3.2 on Dec 7, 2012

Firefox is dead to me.
Long live Pale Moon !!!

Bala7 reviewed v15.3.2 on Dec 5, 2012

for admins:
I would strongly encourage you to replace FF with PM. 100% compatible w FF.
I'm sick-and-tired to cleaning our the never-ending web collection of toolbars afflicting official Mozilla releases. Remember: your customers will not read installers! PaleMoon will save admins much distress.

FatBastard reviewed v15.3.1 on Dec 2, 2012

It's a very good browser. It's fast and stable. I love that it's 64-bit.
The splashscreen that shows when you start the program is extremely annoying though.

gatorfan95 reviewed v15.3 on Nov 13, 2012

From the release notes:
The 64-bit version of Pale Moon will no longer support Windows XP.
People who are running Windows XP x64 will have to switch to the 32-bit version at this time. The 64-bit run-time libraries no longer support the necessary Windows API calls for Windows XP and are restricted to running on Windows version 6.* (i.e.: Vista (6.0), Windows 7 (6.1) and Windows 8 (6.2))

Several bug fixes incorporated also. A nice alternative to FF for 64 bit users. I don't use the 32 bit, so I cant comment on that. Always 5 stars

gatorfan95 reviewed v15.2.1 on Oct 30, 2012

Security Update to address the issues fixed in FF 16.0.2. A very good alternate to FF, fast and light weight. I recommend it highly if you don't like a lot of the "extraneous" features being added to the new releases of FF.

whiterocker reviewed v15.2.1 on Oct 30, 2012

Crashes in Windows 8, losing all entered data. If you want to buy on the net stick to Waterfox or even Internet Explorer 10 (which seems to run very well on Windows 8. It was annoying to loose all my choices at Amazon.com at crash.

LakotaElf reviewed v15.2 on Oct 29, 2012

I use Pale Moon and Firefox and find them both to be very good. I installed Waterfox once and used it for several days and took it out, did not like it at all. But to each their own, I say use what your comfortable with and like. I have had very little problems with Pale Moon or Firefox.....

stevvie reviewed v15.2 on Oct 9, 2012

@gatorfan95 agreed, Thats what I ORIGINALLY said. And that I am still using FF, so not sure where you get the fanboy reference from.

gatorfan95 reviewed v15.2 on Oct 8, 2012

I have pretty much gone back to FF with the latest releases because it has caught with PM, however, PM was my default for a long time and I still check out the latest releases. This is a great replacement browser if you are not happy with some of the features in Firefox. Fast and light weight.

64 bit download is here

http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-x64.shtml

Release notes are here.

http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml

@stevvie: I said what I said because, if you actually used PM you would know that is faster than waterfox. It's plain that you haven't and are only deprecating PM to tout waterfox, as is indicated by giving PM a 1 rating..

Music4Ever reviewed v15.1.1 on Sep 21, 2012

In absolute terms the best browser out there, the differences between this & Firefox are not as great as they were but still excellent.

gatorfan95 reviewed v15.1.1 on Sep 20, 2012

@ Stevvie. You didn't bother to use it, just wrote a fanboi review of Waterfox.

This is a very clean little version of Firefox. The 64 bit version is as fast as any browser I have used or tried, including Waterfox. Always 5 stars.

stevvie reviewed v15.1.1 on Sep 20, 2012

both 64bit and 32bit were slower than waterfox by a fair margin. Neither seemed much faster than plain firefox.

FatBastard reviewed v15.1.1 on Sep 20, 2012

Pale Moon 64-bit is very fast.
http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-x64.shtml

Tallpaultn reviewed v15.0 on Aug 29, 2012

Palemoon 15.0(32bit) Browser is working great for me on WinVista SP2. It's fast & runs smoothly. Thanks Moonchild & Staff!!--job well done.

gatorfan95 reviewed v15.0 on Aug 27, 2012

A very nice browser. I used it for a long time until Firefox caught up with it in performance. If you are not happy with Firefox and some of it's features, this is an excellent alternative and light years ahead of Chrome and Opera.

Blaxima reviewed v15.0 on Aug 27, 2012

A good browser and I appreciate that they have taken a stand and not implemented the sneaky background updating that firefox started with version 12. With that said though, while Opera, my browser of choice, flounders about with the dreadful 12.x branch, I am finding Iron more to my liking. Pale Moon is good but its built off of firefox and all the things I don't like about ff inevitably are in this too. But if you do like firefox, then you really should be using this

jotte_ct reviewed v15.0 on Aug 27, 2012

My browser of choice!
Using both x64 (mostly) and x32 (seldom)

Music4Ever reviewed v12.3 Release 2 on Aug 5, 2012

Best browser there is by far : Wipes the floor with Chrome ~

1 bazillion stars !

cltx99 reviewed v12.3 Release 2 on Aug 4, 2012

Excellent browser and has a great tool to import from FF.

asaenz reviewed v12.3 Release 2 on Aug 3, 2012

This (12.3 r2) is mainly for 32 bit users of Pale Moon and no difference for 64 bit users if already using 12.3. 32 bit users should update if they're experiencing degradation of browsing performance otherwise you won't notice any actual difference.

gatorfan95 reviewed v12.3 on Jul 17, 2012

always 5 stars

HeilNizar reviewed v12.3 on Jul 17, 2012

5 stars

Fred G. Sanford reviewed v12.3 on Jul 17, 2012

What a breath of fresh air. The browser has a fully customizable, old school GUI but with all the contemporary features built in. If you hate where Microsoft and Google are going with the dumbed down minimalism and "Metro-fication" of everything, Pale Moon is a superb alternative.

bigspud reviewed v12.2.1 on Jun 22, 2012

almost as good as ff3.6 but there is no status bar when in fullscreen mode.
when this gets fixed i will do the switch.

Music4Ever reviewed v12.2 on Jun 8, 2012

Brilliant, a great enhanced release of the already very good Firefox ~

It seems a Linux version is in the works, hopefully ~

gatorfan95 reviewed v12.2 on Jun 8, 2012

Another good update to an excellent browser. I have had no "unexplained" crashes. It's a 5 all the way.

johnk119 reviewed v12.1 on May 27, 2012

Who doesn't want an enhanced version of firefox!!!

My earlier comment needs to be amended... I've experienced a mysterious crash using palemoon. I've never experienced a crash with no error or warning box with my other browsers; IE, Firefox, Chrome.

gatorfan95 reviewed v12.1 on May 22, 2012

Gets better with each release. Keep up the good work.

gatorfan95 reviewed v12.0 on Apr 30, 2012

Another well done update to an already great browser. If you don't like the directions Firefox is going, this is the browser for you.

From the Pale Moon Forums: "Firefox will receive a few user interface overhauls to go off on the "Web OS"/"Metro"/"Desktop integration" tangent that goes against Pale Moon's goals of being and remaining a web browser"

The 64 bit version can be found here

http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-x64.shtml

Music4Ever reviewed v12.0 on Apr 30, 2012

Best Windows browser out there ~

Uriel reviewed v11.0.1 on Apr 28, 2012

This is now my default browser since I found out how to install the Roboform plugin manually through the Pale Moon forum. Great browser.

gatorfan95 reviewed v11.0.1 on Mar 27, 2012

This is a small maintenance update. Nothing big, but I would suggest you update anyway. Always 5 stars

Uriel reviewed v11.0 on Mar 24, 2012

This is an excellent browser. But until Roboform builds a plugin for it, I can't use it. I would switch to it immediately though if this ever happens as I have tried it and find that it is mean lean and it rocks.

Blaxima reviewed v11.0 on Mar 23, 2012

I have never been a fan of firefox but I have to admit, this ain't half bad. It simply outperforms the regular versions.

I've replaced SRWare Iron(Chrome) with this, for now, as my back up to Opera

kstev99 reviewed v11.0 on Mar 23, 2012

This is an excellent browser! I have uninstalled Firefox and started using Palemoon. My loyalties to Mozilla remain, after all it is still Firefox, optimized. The optimizations make it blazing fast and it just seems lighter. Chrome users should give it a try.

gatorfan95 reviewed v11.0 on Mar 23, 2012

I'm using the 64 bit port.. It keeps getting better and better. I downloaded Firefox 11.0 to do a comparison, took it off my machine. I'm a die hard Firefox user, Pale Moon has it beat, hands down.

Input Overload reviewed v9.2 on Feb 22, 2012

I actually installed Firefox 10.0.2 just to remind myself why I use Pale Moon & I soon deleted it.. PM It's just that bit slicker & faster, smoother than Firefox & blows Chrome that I used for some time into the weeds.

Great browser!

Try it & you will keep it.

kstev99 reviewed v9.2 on Feb 22, 2012

Excellent optimized version of Firefox. I tried this a long time ago and again recently. Seems more responsive than the standard Firefox, but the versions are quite a bit older than the most recent BETA that I currently use.

For my 64bit laptop I really prefer Waterfox 10.0, another optimized version of Firefox for 64bit only. Read a review of the three 64bit builds (Palemoon, Firefox Nightly, Waterfox) here: (or just search Waterfox vs. Palemoon)

http://www.networkworld....fox-faceoff-255880.html

For 32bit the Palemoon build is unbeatable, so I give it a 5

gatorfan95 reviewed v9.2 on Feb 22, 2012

Another 5 stars from me on the 64 bit port. I hope the author of this never decides to stop working on it. If you are using Opera or any other 3rd party browser you are missing out. I have been using Firefox since it was Firebird and I hate to say this. Don't mess with the new versions of Firefox, wait for this to come out a few days later.

@kstev99

I am not sure why but Waterfox requires Visual C++ Redistributable be installed before it will run or you get a msvcr100.dll is missing error. Given the insignificant differences in the benchmarks you cited, I would prefer to use something that I can download and run, not have to add things I don't normally use installed on my machine. But that's just me.

Input Overload reviewed v9.1 on Jan 24, 2012

Brilliant. The best browser I have used. Great job.

Change log:- http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml

gatorfan95 reviewed v9.1 on Jan 24, 2012

I installed the 64 bit port of this browser and immediately made it my default browser. It's Firefox on steroids. The new versions lag behind the new versions of FF by a few days, but they are well worth the wait.

tafugate reviewed v9.1 on Jan 24, 2012

a thousand apologies for not remembering which, i installed pale moon on a 32 bit system and a 64 bit system. one or the other smoked, while one was comparable to the nightly. but try it, you may be very pleasantly surprised.

Input Overload reviewed v9.0.1 on Jan 9, 2012

Having tied the FF 9.xx offerings I was less than impressed & continued with Chrome finals.

However this caught my eye today & having never tried Pale Moon I was not expecting much. I was wrong, this seems to sort all the things I dislike about FF on Win 7. I am very impressed with Pale Moon. This is the browser I have been looking for.

Brilliant!

[edit] Having used PM heavily for the last two days I have ditched Chrome which has been my fave browser for some time & use PM as default. I can't speak too highly of this clone!

Hilbert reviewed v6.0 on Aug 26, 2011

Pale Moon is a nice product, slick smooth and fast.

If there are no problems in the next few days then it'll become my default browser by replacing the existing Firefox.

One PIA issue remains - like ALL Mozilla code, it kills plugins that haven't been updated to suit. How Mozilla gets away with this incompatibility crap--year after year--is amazing (it's why I'm using Opera more and more)...

war593122 reviewed v6.0 on Aug 25, 2011

Excellent!

anomoly reviewed v4.0.6 on May 12, 2011

By running the portable version and overwriting it with the newer one, all previous settings and bookmarks are left exactly as before. Disable the hd cache and use only memory for best performance.

In about:config go to:
browser.cache.disk.enable - set to false
browser.cache.memory.enable - set to true

Right-click & select New > Integer with:
browser.cache.memory.capacity
set to -1

Blue Joker reviewed v4.0.6 on May 11, 2011

I give it a 4 .
First coz it's great to have browser choices , second coz it's powered by mozilla.
However if they post some screenshot could bring more users in a first experience through it .

Prospero424 reviewed v4.0.6 on May 10, 2011

First off, I didn't have the stability and installation problems others have reported. I was easily able to transfer over all of my add-ons, bookmarks (yes, including the toolbar), settings, active tabs, etc. using the profile copying tool they link to right on their main page. The process was fairly seamless, if not ideal (the migration tool really should be built in).

Speed seemed slightly faster, but certainly nothing Earth shattering. A couple of content-heavy pages loaded faster.

However.

It quickly wound up using MASSIVE amounts of physical memory (RAM) after browsing the same pages I usually do. To be sure, I opened up standard Firefox and browsed my usual pages (normally about 15 tabs open at any given time) for about an hour, and wound up using about 400MB of RAM. Then I did the exact same thing with Pale Moon and it was using upwards of 900MB! This was under Win7 x64 on an Athlon X2, and I was able to duplicate the issue any time.

I've tried Pale Moon several times under Linux in the past, and it always seems to be something like this that kept me from switching to it. It's ALWAYS something. I guess there's a very good reason that Mozilla compiles for compatibility like they do.

Anyway, the almost unnoticeable performance gains just aren't worth the seemingly inevitable bugs (in the case of the Windows version, excessive RAM usage). My advice would be to stick with Firefox.

CyberDoc999 reviewed v4.0.6 on May 10, 2011

faster
is there a way to import my bookmarks toolbar

azdps reviewed v4.0.6 on May 9, 2011

I wanted to see if there was noticeable benchmark differences between Palle Moon and the normal Firefox distro. I conducted browser benchmarks at Peacekeeper (http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper) and found that Pale Moon scored better on the benchmarks. I also checked the last release of the normal Firefox distro and Pale Moon scored significantly better.

My thanks goes out to the Pale Moon distro maintainer for the time spent optimizing Firefox.

ComputerLuvr reviewed v4.0 on May 3, 2011

I've got this browser installed and also have Firefox installed. I have had no issues with it at all and no conflicts with my Firefox browser. My bookmarks haven't been affected either. Am using version 3.6.16 And Firefox doesn't launch when I click on the Palemoon icon. I've checked that in Windows task manager. Very nice and efficient browser. Would like to see it on Mac and Linux OS.

felixml reviewed v4.0 on Apr 7, 2011

Just as Orbitration wrote, bad all the way.
messed all my Bookmarks export

DrTeeth reviewed v4.0 on Mar 30, 2011

I use Pale Moon. It is slightly snappier than the standard FF, but no great shakes. Doubt if I could tell the difference in speed in a double-blind test.

anomoly reviewed v3.6.11 on Oct 27, 2010

I also like the little video grab button when you are viewing one. One less addon and one more great feature of this browser.
It uses about half the memory that FF portable does & does everything ff does just with a different icon. I will only run it portably, just like ff.
BTW to the devs: muchas gracias
http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-portable.shtml
Migration tool does not work for portables. Just copy the palemoon folder from the portable version's bin folder to yours- too easy. Works as a portable ap much better than ff also.
It can only update addons as far as I know.

Orbitration reviewed v3.6.9 on Oct 27, 2010

Didn't work on my XP SP3 Core2 duo, 4 gigs ram. Mega installation errors, then nothing 'worked' on sites.
no faster than normal firefox 3.5

no uninstall, track down the profile and program folder and delete it I guess.

not ready for prime time, not really seeing a need for it, either

anomoly reviewed v3.6.8a on Sep 13, 2010

I like the icon so I copied the pertinent text using reshacker from the firefox.exe and pasted them to the palemoon.exe and now finally have a different icon from the stupid orange one with the exact same version number that it was originally (8888). But that was the only file I used at first with portable ff.

The palemoon portable v3.69, aside from speed improvements, also disables activex scripting by default and so is slightly more secure as well. So far so good.
Thanks for the icon. btw the migration tool does not work between ff portable and pm portable. Also the check default browser at startup does not go away until you tell it no AND uncheck the box. minor
Weird but it is half the size of ff portable too. I really don't like portable aps .com aps as most of their packages are simply BS and unnecessary.
The portable version was created with win pen pack for a change.

friendinme reviewed v3.6.3 on Aug 17, 2010

I found Palemoon to be stable in performance. However, I did not notice that it was significantly quicker than my standard Firefox installation.

Some other considerations:
Palemoon appears to be the project of a single individual (or very small group), not an organization that is accountable in any way. Although this does not appear to be spyware, I am reluctant to entrust my browser security to an unknown entity.

Palemoon does not consult with Mozilla or have any apparent approval by that organization.

Third party security (or privacy) software will not automatically locate and secure Palemoon.

The program author, Moonchild, gave very quick and useful tech support.

IMHO: Palemoon is what it claims to be-- a stripped-for-Windows version of Firefox. If you find that Palemoon is a significant improvement to Firefox, you might want to consider NOT using it for browsing that must be secure.

I have no particular reason to distrust PaleMoon or MoonChild. I am just cautious of this sort of software.

Upon uninstalling PaleMoon, the only problem I had was getting Firefox to set itself as the default browser again. I ran the Firefox install program again to fix the problem.

Tallpaultn reviewed v3.6.3 on Apr 9, 2010

I highly recommend that users who like Mozilla Firefox, give Pale Moon a try.

Sativarg reviewed v3.6.3 on Apr 9, 2010

Be careful with this one. read read read... I have an older processor so my instillation of Pale Moon doesn't start (error message when starting) . There is a Troubleshooting section at the home page and I found Pale Moon for Athlon XP.

This is not a "childproof" app It will use your existing profile and, if allowed to, delete some important items when uninstalled, So... copy/backup your
C:\Documents and Settings\*Your account*\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla
and
C:\Documents and Settings\*Your account*\Application Data\Mozilla
folders before installing.
I am rating this 3 because The uninstall link is not in the start-up folder and the checkbox to remove my "vital" Firefox profile on uninstall was not clearly marked as such in the uninstaller
UPDATE:
Latest news:
http://www.palemoon.org/
The Firefox 3.6.6 code base has been released. Pale Moon will follow suit when there has been sufficient time for building and testing it, but development is halted for a few weeks due to relocation. Please be patient, folks!

anomoly reviewed v3.6.3 on Apr 9, 2010

I could not play a vid in firefox portable that wanted me to install quicktime. I ran qt-lite and that did not help. Anyways, this is EXACTLY like ff. Only problem was after blocking dns checks, adding no script, and importing bookmarks it refuses to connect. While portable ff with dns blocking works the same only it does connect. Could be my firewall, who knows. Speed and or optimization wise, other than a rare quicktime snafu (who cares), FF portable works quite well enough for now.

asaenz reviewed v3.6.3 on Apr 9, 2010

Works well (on my system) and uses slightly less memory than regular FF. Will try to update in a month or so and give a higher rating if no problems. I'll point out that I used Sandboxie to try it out and don't know how well it works alongside a normal FF installation. I believe there have been some modifications to about:config and that is responsible for most of the performance changes.

Pkshadow reviewed v3.6.3 on Apr 9, 2010

Do Not Install this program if you have Firefox installed.
The Pale Moon icon will launch Firefox when clicked.
Do Not uninstall this if have Firefox installed and choose delete profile and bookmarks as it is not referring to Blue Moon but to Firefox and so it will delete your Profile, bookmarks, passwords, custom stuff as well as break all plug-ins.

Rates a low one for incompatible, lack of info re incompatible with Firefox installed as well as the time spent putting myself back together again.