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Pale Moon (web browser)

Pale Moon
Pale Moon's computer icon: Image of Earth's moon tinted blue
Screenshot of Pale Moon version 8 running on Windows XP, showing Russian Wikipedia
Screenshot of Pale Moon version 8 running on Windows XP, showing Russian Wikipedia
Developer(s)M.C. Straver
Initial releaseOctober 20, 2009 (2009-10-20)
Stable release19.0.2 (March 9, 2013; 20 days ago (2013-03-09)[1]) [±]
Development statusActive
Written inC/C++
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
EngineGecko
PlatformIA-32, x86-64(Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 or later)[2]
Available in85 languages[3]
TypeWeb browser
License
Websitewww.palemoon.org

Pale Moon is a web browser based on Mozilla Firefox.[5] It is available for Windows platforms and distributed by M.C. Straver.[6] Pale Moon builds on Firefox, optimizing for efficiency of code and aimed at current and modern microprocessors.[7] Pale Moon is available free of charge as open source code archive and freeware binary releases.[4] Most of the available Firefox extensions and plugins are compatible with Pale Moon.[8]

Contents

Features

Though based on Firefox code, Pale Moon differs in several concepts, including performance optimization, user interface and legacy hardware support.

Optimization

Pale Moon makes use of compiler optimizations by using Microsoft C compiler's "/O2" and "/Ox" flags to increase performance of the browser.[9][10][improper synthesis?] The resulting browser will not run on particularly old hardware as a result, but "by cutting out support for older systems, Pale Moon works with an optimized code base that takes full advantage of modern processor instruction sets."[11]

Further performance tuning is achieved by removing rarely used functions of Firefox, including accessibility features, parental controls, crash reporter, ActiveX and Active Scripting[6][12]

These optimization techniques increased the subjective performance of Pale Moon as compared to Firefox.[6][5][13][14]

User interface

The user interface of Pale Moon since version 4.0 substantially differs from that of Firefox. The status bar was re-added by the authors to keep the information, provided by web applications and the messages about the current state of the browser accessible yet less intrusive, as well as keeping other status elements that were removed from the Firefox user interface (page load progress indicator, file download indicator) by bundling an edited version of an open source status bar extension until version 12, after which that extension was fully integrated into the core of the browser.[15][16][17] The tab bar in Pale Moon is also preserved below the other toolbars in the application (as opposed to Firefox's and Google Chrome design). The developer also reordered UI controls with a goal to collect the control elements in the same place to improve the user experience from the usability point of view.[18]

Older hardware support

Version 3.x of the browser (based on Firefox 3.x source code) is maintained separately to provide support for older processors that don't support the SSE2 instruction set, which is required to run Pale Moon versions 4.0 and later.[19] In August 2012, the main developer announced the end-of-life for legacy Palemoon browser citing dropped functionality, maturation of the next-generation code and increasing difficulty for back-port security patches (especially issues related to JavaScript).[20]

Versioning

Up to version 12, the browser has followed Mozilla Firefox's rapid release schedule, but since 12.0, development of the browser has become more independent. Subsequent versions are based on specific major Gecko versions with additional and independent development on top.[21]

License

Like Firefox, Pale Moon is released open source, with the source code residing under the Mozilla Public License 1.1 except for parts relating to branding. Unlike Firefox, however, the Pale Moon binaries may only be redistributed under certain conditions.[4] According to the author, this is to prevent the possibility of any confusion with tainted versions. The project's name, logo, and other artwork are the intellectual property of M.C. Straver, and cannot be used in other third party Firefox builds or other related products without the author's prior permission.[12]

References

  1. ^ Pale Moon Release Notes
  2. ^ Minimum system Requirements at Home Page
  3. ^ "Pale Moon language packs". Moonchild Productions. Retrieved 16 June 2012. 
  4. ^ a b c "Pale Moon redistribution", Official website, http://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml, retrieved 2012-02-16
  5. ^ a b Purdy, Kevin (2010-04-14), "Pale Moon Is a Faster Firefox Clone for Windows", Lifehacker, http://lifehacker.com/5516964/pale-mo on-is-a-faster-firefox-clone-for-wind ows, retrieved 2012-02-16
  6. ^ a b c Snyder, Bill (2012-01-10), "Pale Moon: The Fastest Browser You've Never Heard Of", Consumer Tech Radar (CIO Blogs), http://blogs.cio.com/browsers/16732/p ale-moon-fastest-browser-youve-never- heard, retrieved 2012-02-16
  7. ^ "Firefox Optimized for Windows – Pale Moon Custom Built Browser", TECK.IN, 2011-04-08, http://teck.in/firefox-optimized-for- windows-pale-moon-custom-built-browse r.html, retrieved 2012-02-16[self-published source]
  8. ^ Habaradas, Jaypee (2011-02-22), "Pale Moon – Custom Built & Optimized Firefox Browser", Jaypee Online, http://jaypeeonline.net/internet/pale -moon-project/, retrieved 2012-02-16[self-published source]
  9. ^ "/O1, /O2 (Minimize Size, Maximize Speed)", MSDN (Microsoft), http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/libra ry/8f8h5cxt(v=VS.80).aspx, retrieved 2012-02-16
  10. ^ "About protocol links", MozillaZine, http://kb.mozillazine.org/About_proto col_links, retrieved 2012-02-17
  11. ^ Wilson, Mark (2011-04-06), "Pale Moon 4: Firefox's leaner, meaner twin – and, whoa is it fast", betanews, http://www.betanews.com/article/Pale- Moon-4-Firefoxs-leaner-meaner-twin-an d-whoa-is-it-fast/1302107943, retrieved 2012-02-16
  12. ^ a b "Pale Moon: Technical Details", Official website, http://www.palemoon.org/technical.sht ml, retrieved 2012-02-16[non-primary source needed]
  13. ^ Williams, Mike (2011-06-25), "Pale Moon 5 outshines sibling Firefox 5", betanews, http://betanews.com/2011/06/25/pale-m oon-5-outshines-sibling-firefox-5/, retrieved 2012-02-16
  14. ^ Noyes, Katherine (2011-08-27), "Want a faster Firefox? Pale Moon can help", PC World, http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter /article/238968/want_a_faster_firefox _pale_moon_60_can_help.html, retrieved 2012-02-16
  15. ^ "Status-4-Evar", Mozilla Add-ons directory, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire fox/addon/status-4-evar/, retrieved 2012-02-17
  16. ^ Finalization of the integration of status bar (Part of PM12 official announce in forums)
  17. ^ Pale Moon – Release Notes, http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes- ng.shtml, retrieved 2012-06-01
  18. ^ "About the Pale Moon layout in version 4 and later", Official website, http://www.palemoon.org/layout-differ ences.shtml, retrieved 2012-02-16[non-primary source needed]
  19. ^ "Pale Moon: AthlonXP", Official website, http://www.palemoon.org/athlonxp.shtm l, retrieved 2012-02-23[non-primary source needed]
  20. ^ End-of-Life announcement for Pale Moon "Legacy" (Official forum)
  21. ^ Pale Moon version numbers (change of plan) – Pale Moon forum (Official post from main developer)

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