Pale Moon Browser

Introduction

Pale Moon is an Open Source web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), developed by the Pale Moon team Pale Moon is a forked version of Mozilla's Firefox web browser.

HOWTO: INSTALL/UPDATE: LINUX CLIENT:

Install Latest Version

Download the latest version of Pale Moon from the here.

Note: Where you see YOUR_FILENAME_HERE replace it with the name of the file you have downloaded.

Open a terminal and change directory to where you have downloaded the file from Mozilla, then run the following commands:

sudo tar jxvf YOUR_FILENAME_HERE.tar.bz2 -C /opt/
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/palemoon/
sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/palemoon/
sudo ln -s /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon

Create symbolic links for the icons:

sudo ln -s /opt/palemoon/browser/chrome/icons/default/default16.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/palemoon.png
sudo ln -s /opt/palemoon/browser/chrome/icons/default/default32.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/palemoon.png
sudo ln -s /opt/palemoon/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/palemoon.png
sudo ln -s /opt/palemoon/browser/icons/mozicon128.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/palemoon.png

To create a global menu entry, in the terminal run the following command:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop

Or to create a user specific menu entry, in the terminal run the following command:

gksudo gedit /home/%username%/.local/share/applications/palemoon.desktop

Add the following text:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Pale Moon Web Browser
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=palemoon %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/palemoon.png
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;Internet
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=palemoon -new-window
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

[Desktop Action NewPrivateWindow]
Name=Open a New Private Window
Exec=palemoon -private-window
OnlyShowIn=Unity;

Save and close gedit.

Update To Latest Version

sudo rm -rfv /opt/palemoon
sudo tar jxvf YOUR_FILENAME_HERE.tar.bz2 -C /opt/
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/palemoon/
sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/palemoon/

Thanks to Pale Moon for some of the content above.