Pale Moon est, ce qu'on pourrait appeler, un clone de Firefox créé par des développeurs qui étaient en désaccord avec la feuille de route du navigateur de la fondation Mozilla à l'époque de la mise en place du thème Australis (celui qui ressemble à s'y méprendre à Google Chrome). Afin d'être plus indépendants possible, les développeurs ont également décidé de cloner le moteur de rendu Gecko (et de l'appeler Goanna) afin d'y apporter eux-mêmes les correctifs de sécurité et autres nouveautés tout en gardant l'esprit de "l'ancien" Firefox.
De ce fait, Pale Moon est désormais un navigateur totalement indépendant de Mozilla et suit donc son propre rythme de mise à jour. Pale Moon est disponible sur Windows (à partir de Windows 7) et sur Linux.

Pale Moon
Version actuelle : 34.0.1 - Liste d'extensions compatible
Windows : 32 bits, 64 bits - Portable 32 bits, 64 bits | macOS Intel, ARM | Linux
v34.0.1 (2026-01-22)
This is a minor release to address some critical issues in the new milestone.
Changes/fixes:
- Backed out the expat library update for causing memory inflation and browser hang issues on XUL/XML and SVG files with particularly large attributes.
- Backed out the change of the Javascript PRNG for causing intermittent issues and crashes on 32-bit platforms.
Both of these issues are being investigated and can hopefully re-land with the next development release.
v34.0.0 (2026-01-20)
This is a new milestone release! There are many changes in this milestone; the most important ones are highlighted here.
New features:
- Our default theme on Windows received a refresh and update. It should integrate better with Windows 11 now, and be more responsive to dark accent colors, among other things.
- Implemented
WeakRef. See implementation notes. - Implemented
URL.canParse(). - Implemented the
inset-blockandinset-inlineCSS shorthands. - Added a preference (
privacy.forgetaboutsite.clearPasswords) to control clearing of passwords when using "forget about this site" in the permissions manager, and disabled clearing of passwords by default, since it was considered unexpected behavior by the community. - Changed our JavaScript PRNG to Xoroshiro128++ to make it more robust while keeping high performance.
Important updates and fixes:
- Re-landed CSS Cascade Layers support after the previous back-out.
- Re-landed CSS
color-mixsupport after the previous back-out. RGB and HSL color spaces only, like previous. - Implemented viewport overflow propagation logic. See implementation notes.
- Unprefixed CSS
-moz-appearance; Pale Moon now accepts the unprefixed CSSappearancekeyword. For compatibility,-moz-appearanceand-webkit-appearance(if enabled) have been retained, although the long-term plan is to eventually remove the -moz prefixed one, so if you are an extension or theme developer, please consider switching your CSS to useappearancewithout a prefix. - Fixed an intermittent but fairly prominent crash-to-desktop due to JavaScript garbage collection on certain modern sites.
- Fixed a crash on sites with certain types of CSP handling.
- Fixed a crash in WASM.
- Updated NSS to 3.90.9 (custom) to pick up several security and stability fixes.
- Updated ICU to v78.1. This is a major uplift for our internationalization subsystem, allowing further future developments for the Internationalization API.
- Updated Emoji support to Unicode 17.
- Updated our expat parser code to a more recent version (2.7.3), fixing various issues.
- Improved handling and rendering of emoji clusters.
Other changes:
- Added support for building on Sparc64 hardware.
- Added support for building for NetBSD on Alpha.
- Added basic support for building on Mac PowerPC (still a work in progress).
- Added basic support for building on LoongArch64 hardware (龍芯 CPUs).
- Added support for running on FreeBSD 15.
- Removed automatic coloring of auto-filled login fields as it would interfere with various browser and system color schemes.
If preferred, this can be reinstated by users with auserContent.cssdocument or e.g. the Stylem extension by leveraging the:autofillCSS pseudo-class. - Restored support for in-process NPAPI plugins, allowing plugin use on systems where out-of-process is undesirable.
- Improved JavaScript IonMonkey stability on ARM and Mac SoC hardware.
- Linux GTK builds now always build with gio, and gconf support has been removed.
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2025-13015, CVE-2026-0879 (DiD), CVE-2026-0880 (DiD), CVE-2026-0889 (DiD), CVE-2026-0883, CVE-2026-0886 (DiD), and several others without a CVE designation.