I would recommend against using Pale Moon. The security architecture is extremely outdated compared to today’s browsers standards. Fixing security bugs won’t fix that.
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“Not perfect’ is a massive understatement when we’re talking about fundamental security. I don’t think that anyone should treat browser security as a secondary feature or something where ‘good enough’ suffices. Pale Moon is built on an extremely old fork, and as modern security standards evolve and especially in the age of ai driven exploits, running legacy code is a colossal liability.
Relying on updates that arrive weeks or months late is a gamble you will eventually lose. A secure browser requires zero day exploits to be actively identified and patched in the background before they are even public, not a reactive patch cycle that leaves users exposed.
Because the engine is based on upstream code, the bad guys know exactly where the holes are the moment a fix is released for mainstream browsers. Every day Pale Moon goes without that patch, its users are sitting ducks. Without the multi process sandboxing and modern isolation found in current browsers, a single malicious site can compromise your entire system. Frequency of updates doesn’t matter if the underlying engine is perpetually playing catch up with modern threat vectors.
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