Pale Moon is an open-source, Mozilla-based web browser that can be used as an alternative to the most popular Internet browsers. It has a very attractive and useful startup page, with shortcuts to the most commonly used websites. Those shortcuts are sorted out by categories. For example, the social media category includes shortcuts to sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and so on, while the E-mail category shows shortcuts to Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and others. This is a very convenient feature, and you can customize each category to include those sites most visited for you, or delete those that you don't use.
You can further customize the browser by adding extensions and add-ons. Although the program has many add-ons of its own, those of Firefox are also compatible with it, so if you can't find an add-on that suits your needs at the Pale Moon site, you can search it at Firefox's.
An advantage is that, unlike MS Edge and Chrome, this browser is compatible with Java, since there are many websites that still use this platform. Also, the program's default search engine is DuckDuckGo, a less-known engine whose advantage is that it does not track your searches.
To sum up, it is a good browser that can be used as an alternative to Firefox, Chrome, Explorer and other common programs. You may want to try it.
v25.2 [Jan 15, 2015]
Pale Moon: Release notes
25.2.0 (2015-01-15)
This is an important update after rapid development on the back-end to extend browser capabilities and implement some ES6 draft functions for web programmers, as well as provide some important crashfixes, bugfixes and security updates.
Fixes/changes:
ES6: Added the following functions:
Array.prototype.find and Array.prototype.findIndex
IsConstructor(arg)
Array.of(items...)
Number.parseInt and Number.parseFloat
Advanced math functions: hyperbolic sin/cos/tan/asin/acos/atan, hypotenuse, cube root, expm1, log1p, log10, log2, sign and trunc
Map.prototype.forEach and Set.prototype.forEach
ES6: Added the following number constants: EPSILON, MIN_SAFE_INTEGER and MAX_SAFE_INTEGER
ES6: Added the use of binary and octal numeric literals (&b... and &o...)
ES6: Updated behavior of accessing indexed values in accordance with the spec.
CSS: Added overflow-clip-box:content-box|padding-box
DOM: Added table.createTBody() function
Added a clearer alltabs button for dark personas.
Added a development tools toggle hotkey (F12)
Added a preference prompts.tab_modal.focusSwitch to enable or disable tab switching when a modal dialog (e.g. javascript confirmation) is presented in a page.
IonMonkey on Android: fixed the implementation of AbsI.
IonMonkey: fixed a bug where actively used objects were discarded.
Fixed register initialization to prevent incorrect detection of SIMD instructions on some CPUs.
Optimized some loops in the spell checker to increase performance.
Simplified cache handling, updated cache parameters to better reflect current web use, and enabled automatic cache sizing by default.
Adjusted memory cache sizing to better reflect capacities of current hardware.
Updated UserAgent override workarounds for Netflix and FaceBook to fix some site issues.
Aligned programmatic access to geolocation with the spec.
Fixed a crash when being fed a data file (XML) with too deeply nested tags.
Fixed a crash in HTML5/WebAudio that affected some games.
Fixed a crash when programmatically collapsing elements.
Fixed a few non-breaking bugs related to e10s code.
Fixed text input/padding issues.
Updated surround downmixing code for Vorbis.
Improved tolerance in WebAudio for loading multichannel audio files.
Android: Fixed an issue with Flash, it should now run on more devices.
Updated the DDG search plugin to make the actual query be the last parameter in the address bar for easy editing after a search has been performed.
Removed some unused update channel code.
Updated branding to more clearly indicate Pale Moon's trademark.
Updated some licensing texts in-browser to properly reflect used code and rights.
