Pale Moon – Custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser for Windows

As a web developer with some extensive Firefox familiarity, please, please, please do not use Pale Moon. Please do not suggest to others that they use Pale Moon.<p>It has bugs that other versions of Firefox do not. Because he does not openly share his build configuration&#x2F;etc it&#x27;s not possible for you to fix those bugs.<p>I&#x27;ve had to spend a lot of time trying to troubleshoot issues Pale Moon users had with my HTML5 applications, and in every case the solution was for them to use a properly built and maintained browser. :(

From the FAQ: Can I see your mozconfig&#x2F;build environment&#x2F;configuration files?<p><pre><code> The answer is: No, this is my baby. </code></pre> While I&#x27;m quite happy with FF as my primary browser now that historical memory issues are mostly resolved, I&#x27;d be interested in building a FF release from source and having build-time options. The Pale Moon source code being distributed via &quot;ge.tt&quot; seems designed to obfuscate in a world of git. I&#x27;ll pass.

Is there any sort of proof of this &quot;optimization&quot; actually contributing to performance? The state of compiler optimization being what it is, I find it hard to imagine flag tweaking from the default -O3 or whatever can make an actual significant difference. The secretiveness of his build seems designed to obfuscate third-party replication of his results.<p>Seems more a mouthpiece for the this fellow&#x27;s self-aggrandizement than anything else.

Has anyone tested the difference between Mozilla&#x27;s Firefox build and a local fully-optimized for your machine build? Or something similar with another piece of open source software. I wonder how much the &quot;Gentoo-model&quot; of compiling everything yourself affects everyday performance.

Removed integrated PDF reader? For security? Seriously? PDF.js is used in Firefox for a reason. Hint: secure sandboxing.

I love the &quot;Beware of unofficial versions!&quot; note in the Help menu... on an unofficial version of Firefox.

On initial blush I am so far impressed. Sync pulled over all my add-ons and Firefox info and it is definitely quicker at rendering large tables (my one notable speed complaint with Firefox vs. Chrome). With everything working via Sync I&#x27;m going to give it a fair shot.

Instead of Pale Moon , please use Cyberfox, also a x64 build of Firefox on Windows. At least it uses the same profile as Firefox!