Pale Moon Portable 11 is a custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser. Pale Moon Portable 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

I already have an earlier version of palemoon-portable. How do I upgrade?
Since Pale Moon Portable comes in a "virgin" state, you can simply overwrite an existing Pale Moon Portable folder with the files from a newer version. Your user profile will remain untouched as it doesn't exist in a freshly extracted Pale Moon Portable.

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 11
A new major release building on the Firefox 11.0 code base. This sees many, many bugfixes and a good number of performance improvements that would be too extensive to list in detail.
In summary
- All versions:
* Integration of the Status Bar functionality. You can now access the status bar configuration directly from the Tools or Options menu, and it is no longer a separate add-on[note]
* Implementation of the SPDY protocol to improve load times on websites that support it.
* Improvements to the rendering engine, and specific improvements to the hardware acceleration of font rendering and WebGL
* Implementation of more advanced HTML5 (including IndexedDB improvements and support for more HTML5 elements) and CSS features (including CSS 3D transforms)
* Add-on compatibility: add-ons now default to being compatible
* Cosmetic updates to the Pale Moon icon and some included artwork
* The (limited feature) web developer tools as added to Firefox 11.0 have mostly been disabled since they are not intended to be present in future builds of Pale Moon. Web developers are encouraged to make their own choices about which development tools they wish to use at the Mozilla Add-ons repository (Web development section)
- Pale Moon Portable:
* The automatic backup method has been simplified and the resulting backups will take (a lot) less space. Bookmarks and passwords are backed up, but history no longer gets backed up which saves many MB on your stick or other portable medium.
* Additional compression further reduces space requirements for the 32-bit portable.