15 Facts About Pale Moon

Pale Moon is an open-source web browser with an emphasis on customization; its motto is "Your browser, Your way".

Pale Moon originated as a fork of Firefox, but has subsequently diverged.

Pale Moon is built upon the Unified XUL Platform, a cross-platform, multimedia application base with ancestry in Mozilla code.

Pale Moon for Android was a distinct development effort that is no longer maintained.

Straver's first official release of Pale Moon, in 2009, was a rebuild of Firefox 3.

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On 17 March 2022, Pale Moon 30 was released alongside the new Goanna Runtime Environment, and the source code to both Pale Moon and its platform was made readily available .

Two days later, a core developer unexpectedly departed from the Pale Moon project, sabotaging the Pale Moon website and certain browser services in the process.

Future development of the GRE and Pale Moon 30 was deemed unviable, owing to the proprietary nature of the Goanna Runtime Environment's accompanying infrastructure, which remained under ownership of the departing core developer, as well as breaking platform code changes committed by this developer.

On 10 May 2022, Pale Moon 31 was released, featuring restored support for traditional Firefox addons.

For some time, Basilisk included experimental support for Firefox WebExtensions, which Pale Moon has never supported, but this was removed in February 2019.

Additionally, unlike Pale Moon, Basilisk has technological support for Widevine DRM and WebRTC.

In 2013, Pale Moon was a bit slower than Firefox in the ClubCompy Real-World Benchmark, with the browsers respectively scoring 8, 168 and 9, 344 points out of a possible 50, 000.

However, in the same report Pale Moon scored bottom in the Mozilla Kraken, Google Octane, 32-bit RoboHornet tests and second-to-last in the 64-bit RoboHornet benchmarks.

Whilst other browsers hung during some tests, Pale Moon only hung during the JetStream JavaScript benchmark.

Pale Moon has inspired a multitude of contributed and third-party forks, many of which seek to provide Pale Moon on platforms not officially supported or simply rejected by Moonchild Productions.