{"id":45395,"date":"2024-01-31T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=45395"},"modified":"2024-02-01T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:23:00","slug":"how-to-install-pale-moon-with-its-linux-tarball-beginners-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/how-to-install-pale-moon-with-its-linux-tarball-beginners-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Pale Moon with its Linux Tarball (Beginners Guide)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a step by step beginners guide shows how to install Pale Moon web browser through its official Linux tarball in Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

Pale Moon is a free open-source web browser that was started as a fork of Firefox, but now completely diverged from Firefox. It retains the highly customizable user interface, continues to support legacy add-ons and extensions, and runs in single-process mode.<\/p>\n

The browser provides official package for Linux through a tarball, the binary package however is proprietary but NOT open-source.<\/p>\n

This tutorial is going to show you how to install it through the tarball, though there’s an 3rd party apt repository<\/a> contains the .deb<\/code> package for choice.<\/p>\n

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Step 1: Download Pale Moon<\/h3>\n

The browser provides 64-bit Linux tarball for Intel\/AMD machines, available to download at the link below:<\/p>\n

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Download Pale Moon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

You may choose either GTK2 or GTK3 version, and click download using either Americas or Europe link.<\/p>\n

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Step 2: Extract and move source folder to desired location<\/h3>\n

After downloading the tarball, extract it from your Downloads<\/i> folder. Then, navigate to the new generated source folder, and try to launch the browser by Running<\/i> either palemoon<\/code> or palemoon-bin<\/code> file.<\/p>\n

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For long time use, it’s better to move the extracted folder to a certain location. For current user only, it’s a good choice to create Bin<\/code>, Apps<\/code>, or whatever folder in user home, then put all this kind of portable app folders into it.<\/p>\n

In my case, I created a MyApps<\/code> folder, then move the palemoon folder into it.<\/p>\n

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Step 3: Add Pale Moon into start menu or overview search result<\/h3>\n

To create desktop entry for the browser, first search for and launch “text editor” from the overview screen or start menu depends on your desktop environment.<\/p>\n

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When text editor opens, create new empty document (if not so), and paste following lines into it:<\/p>\n

[Desktop Entry]\r\nVersion=1.0\r\nName=Pale Moon\r\nType=Application\r\nExec=\/home\/ji\/MyApps\/palemoon<\/b>\/palemoon %u\r\nIcon=\/home\/ji\/MyApps\/palemoon<\/b>\/browser\/chrome\/icons\/default\/default48.png\r\nTerminal=false\r\nActions=new-private-window;\r\n\r\n[Desktop Action new-private-window]\r\nName=New Private Window\r\nExec=\/home\/ji\/MyApps\/palemoon<\/b>\/palemoon --private-window<\/pre>\n
NOTE: you need to replace the values of ‘Exec<\/code>‘ and ‘Icon<\/code>‘ (the text in bold), according where you moved the palemoon folder to.<\/b> Just navigate to the palemoon folder, press ctrl+l<\/b>, then copy the PATH and use it to replace the previous text in bold.<\/p>\n
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Finally, click Save<\/code> the file. In the popup dialog, type:<\/p>\n