How To Install Pale Moon in Ubuntu
To Install Pale Moon in Ubuntu
Pale Moon is an open source multi-platform browser for Linux distributions. The specified browser is completely based-on customised version of Firefox, which is mainly focused on efficiency and ease of use. Installation of Pale Moon in Ubuntu is explained in this article.
Features
- Support 64-bit and hardware acceleration
- Additional configuration options
- Functional status bar
- Uses the IP-API service
- Uses DuckDuckGo as default
- Updated YouTube compatibility
Installation of Pale Moon on 32 bit Linux systems
First download the pale moon 32 bit by using the following command.
user1@linuxhelp:~$ wget http://linux.palemoon.org/files/26.1.1/palemoon-26.1.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
Run the below command to extract the downloaded file.
user1@linuxhelp:~$ tar -xjvf palemoon*.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
Next move to the palemoon directory with the below command.
user1@linuxhelp:~$ cd palemoon
Now enter palemoon in the terminal to start working on pale moon browser.
user1@linuxhelp:~$ ./palemoon
Installation of Pale Moon on 64 bit Linux systems
First download the pale moon 64 bit by using the below command.
user1@linuxhelp:~$ wget linux.palemoon.org/files/26.1.1/palemoon-26.1.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
--2016-08-11 19:54:44-- http://linux.palemoon.org/files/26.1.1/palemoon-26.1.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Resolving linux.palemoon.org (linux.palemoon.org)... 104.20.54.69, 104.20.55.69, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:3745, ...
Connecting to linux.palemoon.org (linux.palemoon.org)|104.20.54.69|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 27529041 (26M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ palemoon-26.1.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2’
palemoon-26.1.1.en- 100%[===================> ] 26.25M 679KB/s in 39s
2016-08-11 19:55:24 (686 KB/s) - ‘ palemoon-26.1.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2’ saved [27529041/27529041]
Then extract downloaded archive file with the following command.
user1@linuxhelp:~$ tar -xjvf palemoon-26.1.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
palemoon/
palemoon/libplc4.so
palemoon/libnspr4.so
palemoon/libmozsqlite3.so
palemoon/dependentlibs.list
palemoon/removed-files
palemoon/libmozjs.so
palemoon/plugin-container
palemoon/libfreebl3.so
palemoon/defaults/
palemoon/defaults/pref/
.
.
Now list the directory to view the extracted file by using the below command.
user1@linuxhelp:~$ ls -l
total 26932
drwxr-xr-x 3 user1 user1 4096 Jul 13 15:43 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Jul 12 23:06 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Jul 12 18:07 Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 8980 Jul 12 22:58 examples.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Jul 12 23:06 Music
drwxr-xr-x 7 user1 user1 4096 Feb 23 07:49 palemoon
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 27529041 Feb 25 16:41 palemoon-26.1.1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Jul 12 23:06 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Jul 12 23:06 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Jul 12 23:06 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Jul 12 23:06 Videos
Run the below command to change the directory and list the moved files.
user1@linuxhelp:~$ cd palemoon
user1@linuxhelp:~/palemoon$ ls
application.ini libfreebl3.so libnssutil3.so omni.ja
browser libmozalloc.so libplc4.so palemoon
chrome.manifest libmozjs.so libplds4.so palemoon-bin
components libmozsqlite3.so libsmime3.so platform.ini
defaults libnspr4.so libsoftokn3.chk plugin-container
dependentlibs.list libnss3.so libsoftokn3.so precomplete
dictionaries libnssckbi.so libssl3.so removed-files
distribution libnssdbm3.chk libxul.so run-mozilla.sh
libfreebl3.chk libnssdbm3.so mozilla-xremote-client
Finally open the Pale Moon browser by entering palemoon in the terminal.
user1@linuxhelp:~/palemoon$ ./palemoon
Home page of pale moon browser will display as given below.
Add new tab and search anything as you wish.