Pale Moon A speedy web browser that’s m ore than just a Firefox clone

Nearly every web browser aims to strike a balance between features and speed, and provide a more robust and responsive interface and rendering engine. Yet Pale Moon is very special, and in many ways unlike other lesser-known browsers. That’s due to the fact that it was forked from Mozilla Firefox in 2009, in the 3.6 version era, and since then it’s claimed to be faster and more secure than Firefox. Reading the published FAQs and other materials on the project’s website takes time to discover in what particular way Pale Moon is better, because both advertise themselves in a similar way to each other. It boils down to Pale Moon being a Firefox clone with some signifi cant improvements, with most of them focused on speed, such as discarding support for ancient CPUs for the sake of in-depth use of SSE2 and other modern features available since the late Pentium IV (with 64-bit support). It also cuts out accessibility input options, tabs grouping, WebRTC, parental control, PDF reader and some rarely used APIs. The end result is a speedy web browser for general use, which looks like classic pre-Australis Firefox (before v28), but that still supports many Firefox extensions. The Pale Moon developers do try to maintain compatibility with parent extensions, despite Pale Moon drifting more and more away from its Mozilla origins. Pale Moon even provides its own sync server, which, it claims, provides a more secure approach to synchronizing data, without a focus on the “future commercial endeavours of the Mozilla Corporation”