Information about the project
General Information
The Pale Moon project is a community-driven project owned and led by
Mr. M.C. Straver BASc, using contributed Open Source code to create a
full-featured, optimized browser forked from the code behind the
popular Firefox browser (Mozilla).
Notable other development/maintenance contributors to the project are:
- G. Brown (access2godzilla), C. Ravenscroft and T. Wine for
kicking off and maintaining the Linux builds & installer.
- M. Turnbull (Sparky Bluefang) for supplying the base code
for the V4+ status bar.
- K. Engert for supplying the base code for the padlock
feature.
- Kailapis for supplying the base code for ruby annotations
(v26).
- M. Tobin for additional research into the Mozilla code and
general support in a number of different areas of development, as well
as being instrumental in the 2016 and 2018 platform updates.
- R. Crellin for adapting and maintaining many of the
complete themes for Pale Moon.
- R. Pelizzi for laying the groundwork and working with us to
get the active XSS filter implemented (v26).
- T. Wine for his extensive work on improving media playback
and providing mainline Linux binaries.
- S. Pusser for maintaining various Linux distributions.
Pale
Moon aims to provide a browser with a large degree of freedom in how
people want to browse the web, which tools or extensions
they wish to use, and which feedback they want to see ("Your browser,
Your way"™); efficiency, after all, should not stop at the engine of a
browser, but extend to all parts of it, including the user interface by
sticking to standard user interface conventions and ergonomics,
as well as proper visual integration with the operating system.
Users will find a tried-and-tested user interface in the Pale Moon
browser, which, although very close to older versions of Firefox in the
way it looks and operates at first glance, is a different and modern,
actively-maintained product. Pale Moon will always aim to keep a very
high degree of available user-customization and extensibility, since
that has always been the main strength of Firefox in the past, and to
keep a consistent and logical look and feel to the browser overall.
Extension compatibility with extensions
specifically
written for Firefox prior to Australis can not be
guaranteed since Pale Moon is not Firefox. Pale
Moon
has a growing number of extensions and themes created and maintained
specifically for it, which can be found on the Pale Moon add-ons
website.
Pale Moon is a middle road, cutting
away support for particularly old hardware and operating systems to
achieve a significant speed and efficiency increase, but not trying to
squeeze the last few percent more out of it by limiting the range of
systems it will run on even more. Pale Moon
aims to deliver above all a stable and smooth browsing experience,
and does not intend to or aim for high scoring in synthetic tests, as
those are invariably not a good representation of typical use of a web
browser in the real world.
Pale Moon will be released independently,
as it uses a different source code and release plan, different
versioning scheme, and is not affiliated with or subject to either code
releases or publication plans of Mozilla. Pale Moon is an independently developed product derived from Mozilla/Firefox code, but will most
certainly not be in any way bound to developments seen in the Mozilla
corner.
Support
Please look at the Donations and Support page
to learn about ways to support Pale Moon.
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