Keep in mind that the XUL and XPCOM extensions will have a time period of 12 to 18 months to be updated to the new model and that they will be introducing APIs to improve on that new model over that time period.

It is highly unlikely that any large number of developers will support extensions for a browser with an extremely small userbase like Pale Moon. Once those ESR releases drop support for the old extensions model, it's unlikely anyone will even be maintaining any of those old extensions. Pale Moon is based on the older Firefox ESR releases at present. Current stable Firefox is much faster than Pale Moon. The primary issue is with the FireFox app, not the PC or FF extensions, as parallel installs on similar hardware platforms using the same OS and related utilities has proven.įWIW a desktop machine is not a suitable replacement for a laptop!įirefox's current releases are faster both objectively and subjectively. The issues are not with PortableApps packaging that works fine and has worked fine for many years across many different apps. With the recent news that Firefox would become more like Chrome in the way it handles extensions, Pale Moon could be an interesting alternative for die-hard FireFox users.īTW I was a die-hard FireFox user, but after many years of trying to get recent PortableApps versions to perform like PortableApps FF24, I have given up on all variations of FireFox and started to switch to PortableApps QupZilla. Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code, with carefully selected features and optimizations to maximize the browser's speed*, stability and user experience, while offering a rich collection of extensions and themes (including compatibility with many Firefox extensions users have come to love and rely on).' Make sure to get the most out of your browser! 'Pale Moon is an Open Source web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use.

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