Pale Moon for Mac
An open-source browser focused on efficiency and customization.
Free
In English
Version 33.7.0When 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 33.7.0
- Implemented CSS two-location color stop logic. This allows for two-location color stops (`color x% y%`) in gradients, which is shorthand for `color x%, color y%` where both colors are equal.
- Our minimum GCC version requirement to build is now 9.1.
- Improved channel handling when CSP blocks network redirects.
- Implemented several fixes for CORS preflight requests.
- Added explicit whitelisting from CSP content loading of javascript: scheme URLs.
- Updated the ffvpx library to 6.0.1, this time preventing video color range regressions. An update to 6.0 was previously backed out in 33.5.0.
- Updated the JPEG-XL library to 0.11.1 to pick up several fixes and improve decoding compatibility of jxl files.
- Updated the SQLite library to 3.49.1.
- Fixed a spec compliance issue with DOMRect and DOMQuad returning 0 if NaN was present. We now return NaN in that case, per spec.
- Fixed a spec compliance issue with NTLM authentication. We now compute Channel Binding Hashes using the certificate signature's hash algorithm, per spec.
- Note that particularly weak algorithms are not used and SHA256 will be used as a minimum, instead, in those cases.
- Fixed a buildability issue on Mac with XCode 16.3.
- Added some additional safety checking to SharedArrayBuffers.
- Added some additional safety checking to XSLT compilation and transformation.
- Windows only: Added a preference widget.windows.follow_shortcuts_on_file_open to control how Windows File Open dialogs handle shortcut links. See implementation notes.
- Security bugs addressed: CVE-2025-3028 (DiD) and CVE-2025-3033 (see implementation notes).
Pale Moon for Mac
Free
In English
Version 33.7.0
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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.
