What exactly IS pale moon

[Koinexd]

i downloaded this browser in an attempt to find a browser i could mod enough to look "retro" but aside from that i have no real clue what this browser is about.

Is this like a privacy browser or is it built around an aesthetic or what?

It seems really neat tho!

[RealityRipple]

i consider it the primary product of the last independent web rendering engine in existence

[vannilla]

It's a document viewer.

[UCyborg]

Have you checked the front page and Information section on it?

[Falna]

They don't contain a snappy 'mission statement', but the home page and the project information page outline the aims, objectives and philosophy.

Privacy is one of those elements - for example, Pale Moon was the first browser to include an option to prevent fingerprinting via the canvas (in version 25.6.0, released in 2015, now enabled by default).

[Moonchild]

It's a document viewer.

A bit more than that, but at its core, yes, you are technically correct.

[jars_]

What exactly IS pale moon

For me, the main and almost the only advantage of using PaleMoon is the CustomButtons extension and the ability to change the interface (fonts, colors and arrangement of elements) (q)gTranslate
Для меня, основное и чуть ли не единственное преимущество использования PaleMoon, это расширение CustomButtons и возможность изменять интерфейс(шрифты, цвета и расположение элементов).

[Night Wing]

For me, Pale Moon was easy to customize right out of the box using the Customize Toolbar and the Permissions Manager. This was when I was using Pale Moon in Windows 7 and later when I went to using Pale Moon (GTK2) in Linux in January of 2014 when it was publicly released for the first time and it saw it's first usage in Linux Mint.

[frostknight]

For the its a few things:

The last web browser not chromium based or webkit based that is still adheres to firefox's deceased spirit, the one of community.

The last web browser that is maintained that has middle road usage and isn't abhorrently crappy looking. Looking at you firefox quantum and anything chromium based!

Very lightweight web browser as far as web browsers that are usable are today.

only web browser that comes close is badwolf, but its functionality is much weaker and its harder to work around crap then palemoon due to useragent sniffing.

[moonbat]

A bit more than that, but at its core, yes, you are technically correct.

In a way he's very accurate, given that every other browser is trying hard to turn into a virtual machine for remote applications.

[Moonchild]

In a way he's very accurate, given that every other browser is trying hard to turn into a virtual machine for remote applications.

We're partway there which is why I say "a bit more than that". The "modern web" is basically half remote application, half remote document. Determining where to draw the line is difficult.