Pale Moon Portable 6 is a custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser. Pale Moon Portable 6 allows you to take it with you anywhere. You've enjoyed Pale Moon at home, or at the office. You?ve wondered if you could use it elsewhere: in a library, on a public computer, in a cybercafe... You need something portable, that is as simple as plugging in your USB stick and running your favorite browser, with all your bookmarks and passwords at your fingertips? Then here is the answer: Pale Moon Portable!

Why settle for a basic build of your Firefox browser on Windows Operating Systems when you can have one that performs 25% faster? Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, while many Linux ("from scratch") users get the advantage of a browser built specifically for their system. That needs to change! So, here is the Pale Moon project: Custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed out of your browser!

Features
* Highly optimized for modern processors
* 100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
* Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
* Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
* Stability: experience fewer browser crashes.
* Support for SVG and Canvas, and downloadable fonts including WOFF
* Support for HTML5 and WebGL (v4+)
* Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas
* Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)
* Able to use existing Firefox profiles, bookmarks and settings with this migration tool

Following the trend of other browsers, I have created a portable installation, which, thanks to winPenPack's X-launcher, is completely self-contained. Nothing is stored on the host computer, everything stays neatly where it belongs: on your stick.

Note that portable applications are not meant to have file/URL associations with the desktop.
If you require desktop integration, it is recommended that you do not use Pale Moon Portable, but the normal version instead!

How do I use this?

Three simple steps:
- Create a folder on your hard disk or a your USB stick
- Extract the contents of the ZIP file to your USB stick in a folder of your choice
- Run palemoon-portable.exe

That's it! Simple enough?
The first time you run Pale Moon Portable, it may take a fairly long time to load, because it creates a new personal profile on your USB stick for you. This can take some time, also depending on the speed of your stick - up to 30 seconds, usually. After that, it will be much faster to start.

Of course, you don't have to use a USB stick, any writable medium would work: External harddisk, a networked drive, even an MP3 player if it allows you to access it as a drive in Windows.
Do note however that Pale Moon Portable doesn't run from read-only media like CD-ROM or DVD-ROM; it needs write access to the location it is run from.

Pale Moon: Release notes for version 6
New release based on Firefox 6.0!
Of course the necessary bugfixes and changes as part of the new code base, with a number of additional changes:
* Add-ons will no longer automatically update by default the moment they are checked and found to have a newer release, giving the user the choice to accept or reject the update, read release notes, etc.
* Update of the status bar add-on to v2.2, fixing compatibility issues and extending some configurability.
* Link right-click menu has "Open in new tab" on top now, like Firefox. If you are having trouble retraining yourself for this behavior, please download a menu editing Firefox add-on to customize your menus. This change was made based on user feedback.
* Added ak, ast, br, bs, en-ZA, gd, lg, mai, nso, and son language packs

System Requirements:
- Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
- A USB stick or USB harddisk with sufficient space