
Since March 2021, macOS is no longer supported however, this decision has since been reconsidered, and Pale Moon may return to macOS in a future release. MacOS is supported in part by community contributions to the Pale Moon and UXP codebases. These repositories provide the latest Pale Moon updates only for recent Debian and Ubuntu major releases. Ubuntu repositories for Pale Moon are maintained by Steve Pusser and endorsed by Moonchild Productions. These third-party builds range from simple compiler optimizations to support for additional operating systems. Īdditional "contributed" builds of Pale Moon are produced by community members and may or may not carry the official Pale Moon branding, depending on their level of association and collaboration with Moonchild Productions. Moonchild Productions also provides a portable version of Pale Moon for Windows. For Windows, the only requirement is Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 or newer. Processor is required to run the official Pale Moon releases, regardless of operating system choice. Moonchild Productions offers Pale Moon for modern iterations of the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. The name and logo are trademarked by the project founder and cannot be used without his prior permission. To ensure quality, redistribution of officially branded Pale Moon binaries is only permissible under specific circumstances. Mozilla Public License 2.0 except for parts relating toīranding. Pale Moon's source code is released under the UXP is a fork of the Firefox 52 ESR platform, created in 2017 to address the imminent death of XUL/XPCOM technology in the Firefox codebase. Moonchild Productions develops UXP alongside Pale Moon. It includes the Goanna layout and rendering engine, a fork of Mozilla's Pale Moon is built upon the Unified XUL Platform (UXP), a cross-platform, multimedia application base with ancestry in Mozilla code. Process mode, whereas Firefox became a multi-process program NPAPI plugins indiscriminately, all of which are no longer supported by Firefox Firefox no longer supports this and retains limited options for UI customization. Supports "Complete Themes", add-ons which can customize the entire UI of the browser.XPCOM, which are no longer supported by Firefox User interface ("Strata") as carried by Firefox during versions 4-28 Pale Moon has diverged from Firefox in a number of ways: With Tabs on Top enabled, Pale Moon most closely resembles the "Strata" UI from Firefox 4-28.
