Pale Moon for Mac
An open-source browser focused on efficiency and customization.
Free
In English
Version 33.3.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Pale Moon overview
Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser focused on efficiency and customization. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!
Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code a number of years ago, with carefully selected 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.
Main features:
- Optimized for modern processors
- Based on our own optimized layout and rendering engine (Goanna)
- Safe: forked from mature Mozilla code and regularly updated with the latest security patches
- Secure: Additional security features and security-aware development
- Supported by our user community, and fully non-profit
- Familiar, efficient, fully customizable interface
- Support for full themes: total freedom for any element's design
- Support for easily-created lightweight themes (skins)
- Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
- Increased stability: experience fewer browser crashes
- Support for many "legacy" Firefox extensions
- Support for a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive extensions
- Extensive and growing support for existing web standards
What’s new in version 33.3.0
Changes/fixes:
- Implemented the bulk of the CSS "cascade layers" spec (@layer{}). This implementation is not 100% complete yet, but should satisfy common use of CSS cascade layers on the web.
- Implemented support for Sec-Fetch-* headers, implementing another mechanism to deal with site security. See this part of the spec for a primer on what this does.
- Added support for FFmpeg 7.0 / libavcodec 61 (Linux).
- Pale Moon will now look up hosts in DNS ahead of time to make page navigation smoother. See implementation notes.
- Pale Moon will now block access to the reserved address 0.0.0.0 on non-Windows operating systems. See implementation notes.
- Dev: Aligned rounding behavior and precision ranges of toFixed and related functions with the spec. See implementation notes.
- Dev: Aligned isTrusted for PostMessage and BroadcastChannel with expected values on the web. See implementation notes.
- Dev: Added the navigator.webdriver attribute for web compatibility (always false in Pale Moon as we do not support browser automation APIs).
- Re-implemented the Durstenfeld shuffle for plugin enumeration that was unfortunately dropped with one of our past rebases, to strengthen fingerprinting resistance.
- Fixed an issue with character clusters (e.g. for text selection) resulting from a regression surrounding our improvements for emoji handling.
- Fixed an issue with setting DOM color values. DiD
- Slightly improved password form handling, detecting previously unsupported field orders.
- Updated NSS to 3.90.4.
- Updated our emoji font to 15.1.2 (Unicode 15.1 with some additional extras/updates).
Full list of changes available here
Pale Moon for Mac
Free
In English
Version 33.3.0
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User Ratings
Dec 23 2023
Version: 32.5.2
Like Gazman noted (below), the M1/M2 Silicon ARM version can be downloaded on Palemoon website. Thanks to developer for taking care of their exceptional browser!
Oct 12 2023
Version: 32.4.1
The download link above is for the Intel version. To download the Apple Silicon version you need to go to their website and download the 'Mac OS ARM' dmg. MacUpdate needs to make their description clearer.
Jul 14 2023
Version: 32.3.0
Unfortunately this excellent browser needs a "helper" to work on Silicon Mac. It's unacceptable. It's been two years since M1 was released.
Mar 29 2023
Version: 32.1.0
I have to say, this is a speedy browser. Webpages load a lot quicker than Google & Firefox.
But, the pop-ups come thick and fast, even when my preferences were set to block AND I installed two extensions. I really want to like this, but at the moment, the advertising is taking-up too much room on my screen within a few seconds and I can't see much.
