Contributed 3rd Party Builds • AppImage of Pale Moon available
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May 16, 2026
The people at Portable Linux Apps have been making an AppImage of Pale Moon available since last July, I just stumbled across it today: https://github.com/Portable-Linux-Apps/ ... n-AppImage
They claim they don't change anything from the official binary except to AppImage-fy it. Here's the script they use to create the AppImage:
CODE:
#!/bin/shset -exexport ARCH=$(uname -m)APPIMAGETOOL="https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/appimagetool-uruntime/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-$ARCH.AppImage"UPINFO="gh-releases-zsync|$(echo $GITHUB_REPOSITORY | tr '/' '|')|latest|*$ARCH.AppImage.zsync"export URUNTIME_PRELOAD=1 # really needed hereDESKTOP="https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/raw/branch/master/palemoon/branding/official/palemoon.desktop"ICON="https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/raw/branch/master/palemoon/branding/official/default256.png"tarball_url=https://rm-us.palemoon.org/release/$(wget https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml -O - \| sed 's/[()",{}]/ /g; s/ /\n/g' | grep -i "linux-$ARCH-.*.tar.xz" | grep -vi "gtk2" | head -1)export VERSION=$(echo "$tarball_url" | awk -F'/' '{print $NF; exit}' \| awk -F'-' '{print $2}' | sed 's|.linux.*||')echo "$VERSION" > ~/versionwget "$tarball_url" -O ./package.tar.xztar xvf ./package.tar.xzrm -f ./package.tar.xzmv -v ./palemoon ./AppDir && (cd ./AppDirwget "$ICON" -O ./palemoon.pngwget "$ICON" -O ./.DirIconwget "$DESKTOP" -O ./palemoon.desktopcat > ./AppRun <<- 'KEK'#!/bin/shCURRENTDIR="$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo "$PWD")"export PATH="${CURRENTDIR}:${PATH}"export MOZ_LEGACY_PROFILES=1 # Prevent per installation profilesexport MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER="${APPIMAGE}" # Allows setting as default browserexec "${CURRENTDIR}/palemoon" "$@"KEKchmod +x ./AppRun# disable automatic updatesmkdir -p ./distributioncat >> ./distribution/policies.json <<- 'KEK'{ "policies": { "DisableAppUpdate": true, "AppAutoUpdate": false, "BackgroundAppUpdate": false }}KEK)wget "$APPIMAGETOOL" -O ./appimagetoolchmod +x ./appimagetool./appimagetool -n -u "$UPINFO" ./AppDir
Could be useful to someone I guess.
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