The Pale Moon 25.0 update released earlier this month was a major one as it cut another tie with Firefox. Up until this point, Pale Moon used a Firefox compatibility setting to […]
Pale Moon is a popular web browser that is probably best described as a spin-off of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It has seen a rise in popularity recently as it did […]
Mozilla Firefox is without doubt the browser that you can customize and tweak the most. Even the regular options that are made available to all users are quite extensive, but that is […]
Fossamail is an email client for Microsoft Windows and Linux systems that is based on code of the popular Thunderbird email client. Update: FossaMail has been discontinued due to a lack of […]
When Mozilla launched Australis, several readers of this blog moved away from Firefox by installing Pale Moon instead. The Pale Moon browser is Firefox in essence but with several notable differences. Probably […]
There is no doubt about it that Mozilla has improved the Firefox web browser a lot ever since it switched to the rapid release cycle. I'm referring to performance and web standards […]
Pale Moon is based on the Firefox web browser but specifically optimized for the Microsoft Windows operating system. What sets it apart from Firefox is the fact that its author builds 32-bit […]
Just like there are several Chromium-based browsers out there, Iron or the recently reviewed privacy-centered Epic Browser, there are several browsers that are based on Mozilla Firefox. Pale Moon is one of […]
The idea behind the web browser Pale Moon was to create an optimized web browser based on Firefox's source code for the Windows operating system. While it has been initially designed for […]
A recent post by Moonchild, lead developer of PaleMoon and FossaMail, indicates that he is looking for a new maintainer for FossaMail. Update: Fossamail has been discontinued. FossaMail is an open source […]
The developer of the password manager KeePass released KeePass 2.50 to the stable channel. The new version of the program speeds up key derivation functions significantly. The new version of KeePass 2 […]
Mozilla plans to release new versions of its Firefox web browser on Tuesday 10, 2021. The organization does so every 4-weeks on average, but tomorrow's release is special, as it is the […]
Raymond Hill's uBlock Origin and uMatrix browser extensions are popular content blockers. While uBlock Origin is maintained actively by Hill, uMatrix development ended in 2020. A fork, nMatrix, designed for the Pale […]
The developers of the PC cleaner and privacy tool Privazer have released Privazer 4.0, a new major version of the program, recently. I reviewed Privazer back in 2012 for the first time […]
It appears that the Waterfox web browser has been sold to System1 recently, the same company that bought the Startpage search engine some time ago. To be precise, Startpage was bought by […]
Happy New Year everyone! The year 2019 has ended and I thought it would be nice to provide you with my top picks of articles and reviews that we published here on […]
Adobe will retire Flash in late 2020 and all major browser makers announced that they would end support for Flash in 2020 in the browsers as well. Mozilla will set Flash to […]
One of the advantages of running Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 is that you may play certain streaming content in HD or 4K resolutions. All other web browsers that you may use […]
Basilisk browser, a web browser that is maintained largely by the Pale Moon team, won't support WebExtension-based extensions going forward. The browser is based on the Unified XUL Platform, a forked version […]
We knew that the day would come on which Mozilla would remove all classic extensions, Mozilla calls them legacy, from the organization's AMO website. Legacy extensions are not compatible with recent versions […]
The developer of the Waterfox web browser, Alex Kontos, released version 56.2.3 of Waterfox to the public yesterday. The new version of Waterfox is a security release that follows Mozilla's Extended Support […]
Firefox and Chrome record what users type in the address bar, search bar, and in web forms to a local database of autocomplete entries by default. When a user uses the same […]
Webmasters have a number of techniques at their disposal to create auto-refreshing or reloading websites. From the basic meta refresh to more advanced options that rely on JavaScript. While it may be […]
A recent entry on Mozilla's bug tracking website Bugzilla@Mozilla indicates that Mozilla plans to cut RSS feed reader and Live Bookmarks support from the organization's Firefox web browser. After careful consideration of […]
Firefox users who run the stable version of the web browser and plan on updating to the April 2018 Update version of Windows 10 in the coming days may want to make […]
A new version of the Basilisk web browser was released last week which the development team described as a re-fork and re-based version. Basilisk is a XUL-based web browser that is developed […]
I get asked frequently about the web browser that I use and I usually answer that I use them all. While that is a bit exaggerated, there is some truth to that. […]
Avast Secure Browser is a free Chromium-based web browser by security company Avast that is advertised as private, fast, and secure on the official download site. The web browser is the official […]
Mozilla's decision to switch the Firefox web browser's extension system to WebExtensions had far-reaching consequences not only for Firefox but also for browsers that share code with Firefox. I thought it would […]
Web browsers are the main target for attacks targeting the recently disclosed Spectre vulnerability. For home systems, one could argue that web browsers are the major attack vector. Why? Because browsers connect […]
Giorgio Maone, the developer behind the popular Firefox security add-on NoScript, released NoScript 10, the first "pure" WebExtensions version today. NoScript 10 did not make it in time for the release of […]
Mozilla Firefox 57 will be released today; we have reviewed the new version of the web browser yesterday already. The new version comes with light and shadow; light, because it is faster […]
Firefox 57 is probably the most important release of the browser for Mozilla ever since the browser was released in its initial version. The browser comes with the first bits of Quantum, […]
Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser, announced today that Firefox support for Windows XP and Windows Vista will be ended in June 2018. Mozilla moved Windows XP and Windows Vista users […]
Security researchers have discovered flaws in the extensions systems of all modern browsers that attackers may exploit to enumerate all installed browser extensions. The attack affects all modern browsers. The researchers confirmed […]
The following guide lists all options that you have to continue running so-called legacy add-ons after the release of Firefox 57 in November 2017. Mozilla disabled the legacy add-on system in Firefox […]
The Firefox add-ons repository, short AMO (Addons Mozilla Org), hosts thousands of add-ons for the Firefox web browser. I like Firefox AMO more than the Google Chrome Web Store, and the core […]
M.C.Straver, the lead developer of the Pale Moon web browser, has created a fork of the Mozilla Code Repository as a starting point for further development. The developers of Pale Moon, a […]
The SeaMonkey Council just revealed its plans for the future; core points are plans to migrate to Firefox ESR, support classic features for as long as possible, but drop them eventually. SeaMonkey, […]
The Classic Theme Restorer add-on for Firefox will stop working when Mozilla releases Firefox 57.0 Stable, and Firefox 59.0 ESR. Classic Theme Restorer was developed as a direct response to Mozilla refreshing […]
