Pale Moon for Mac
An open-source browser focused on efficiency and customization.
Free
In English
Version 33.5.0When 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 33.5.0
Changes/fixes:
- 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).
Pale Moon for Mac
Free
In English
Version 33.5.0
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Oct 10 2024
Version: 33.4.0.1
If the link to the Apple Silicon version fails, try: https://www.palemoon.org/download.php?mirror=us&bits=64&type=macarm
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.
