![]() ![]() To start, is Pale Moon's automatic update service. Naturally, I did my best to dig deeper and figure out more information about them. a lot of queries for just a first launch. Some of these queries were made multiple times each. These were captured by the Sysmon tool on my Windows machine:Īdditionally, after allowing Pale Moon to idle for approximately 10 minutes, it also made these queries: On this initial start of Pale Moon, it also initiated quite a series of DNS queries. I launched the browser immediately post-install, where two tabs greeted me: ![]() I chose the Standard installation method:Įverything went smooth and quick. Installing Pale Moon on my Windows 10 machine was simple and easy. NOTE: For this Pale Moon review, I am using Windows 10. These requirements differ slightly across different operating systems: There are minimum system requirements for running this browser. It can run from an extracted tarball, much like an appimage. What's more is that Pale Moon need not be formally "installed" to run on Linux systems. It also features a portable version (not to be confused with a mobile version - there is no mobile support for Pale Moon as of writing) that can be run from removable media such as a USB stick. Pale Moon is available on Windows and most Linux platforms. It seems that Pale Moon's independence, customizability, and a belief in its UXP platform remain its main draws. Pale Moon forked from Firefox as early as Firefox 1.5.x, however it took years for it to grow and mature to the project it is currently. (But that's probably where the similarities end!) Pale Moon is an older fork than Waterfox and has completely moved in a different direction than other Firefox forks it currently uses its own engine, Goanna and its own platform, UXP. Somewhat similar to the Waterfox browser, Pale Moon has very humble beginnings. Truthfully, you can say that Pale Moon is its own independent product, completely separated from Mozilla Firefox despite its origin. Moving on, let's establish that Pale Moon is a hard fork of pre-Australis Firefox. Pale Moon is a very interesting browser with a very long history.īut first, I should clarify: Pale Moon is not just another "outdated and insecure Firefox fork." Sources that claim this about Pale Moon are probably, at least for the most part, misinformed. No Mobile or dedicated macOS support (may be a con for some users).Excludes support for some common modern browser features ( ) More info.Not compatible with either Firefox or Chromium extensions.Failing that I would just stick with Firefox which will be supported for another couple of years on both operating systems. I then opened my favourite browser to use on older computers, Opera (browser with an interface very similar to Google Chrome, despite Google Chrome not being supported on either Windows XP, or Vista – my operating system on this computer that I’m typing this out on), and because I had copied the link on YouTube I pasted it, loaded the page and by default the browser had set itself to 720P and began playing the same video issue free.Ĭurrently, that’s about as far as my experience with Pale Moon goes, and in my personal opinion I would have to recommend Opera if you want a fast and secure web browser to use on an older computer. Running Pale Moon I selected “720P” for the quality (by default it had set itself to 480P) and the videos just froze, and were constantly freezing and buffering. I then tried to play a YouTube video on both Firefox and Chrome I can easily play 480P videos and 720P as long as the video is at the standard 30FPS, rather than 60FPS. I thought that was odd because that’s never happened to me when I’ve been using any other browser, and gave it the benefit of the doubt. I also liked the interface of the browser once it launched, however, I noticed that neither version was particularly fast when I was navigating the web, and the x86 version (now the most up to date version because the Atom/XP version of the program is an older version) actually crashed, and froze while loading YouTube. Both versions installed perfectly fine, as expected. I recently downloaded and installed both the x86 version, and XP/Atom version (specifically designed to run on low-powered processors) of Pale Moon after having the browser recommended to me because of its supposedly low CPU-usage – this appealed to me because I am using an older dual-core machine. ![]()
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