Now Palemoon is in AUR, also not installing the bin for me.
Does we have to forget about him?
palemoon and the precompiled palemoon-bin are both still gtk2-based versions, but gtk2 has already long been dropped from the Arch and Manjaro repositories.
I would recommend trying the gtk3 variant, of which the precompiled version is palemoon-gtk3-bin. 
pamac build palemoon-gtk3-bin
I would not recommend building it from source code — i.e. palemoon-gtk3 without the -bin — unless you’ve got a couple of hours to spare. Six years ago, I built a firefox from sources, and my computer was completely locking me out for over five hours straight, with all cores at 100% and all of my RAM in use.
Better go with the -bin. 
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Right, thanks.
I did not see the gtk3 version, I will check…
Always I use the -bin for the few AUR I use 
Hmm,
I’ve a problem installing it
LC_ALL=C yay -S palemoon-gtk3-bin
AUR Explicit (1): palemoon-gtk3-bin-1:33.9.1-1
:: PKGBUILD up to date, skipping download: palemoon-gtk3-bin
1 palemoon-gtk3-bin (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==>
1 palemoon-gtk3-bin (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==>
==> Making package: palemoon-gtk3-bin 1:33.9.1-1 (Thu Mar 26 23:35:31 2026)
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Found palemoon.desktop-33.9.1
-> Downloading palemoon-33.9.1.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://rm-eu.palemoon.org/release/palemoon-33.9.1.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz
Aborting...
-> error downloading sources: /home/computer/.cache/yay/palemoon-gtk3-bin
context: exit status 1
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: palemoon-gtk3-bin
pub rsa2048 2015-03-15 [SC]
439F46F42C6AE3D23CF52E70865E6C87C65285EC
uid [ unknown] trava90 <travawine@protonmail.com>
sub rsa2048 2015-03-15 [E]
pub rsa4096 2015-01-26 [SCA]
3DAD8CD107197488D2A2A0BD40481E7B8FCF9CEC
uid [ unknown] Moonchild (RSA signing key) <moonchild@palemoon.org>
sub rsa4096 2020-11-08 [S]
sub rsa4096 2015-01-26 [E]
==> Making package: palemoon-gtk3-bin 1:33.9.1-1 (Thu Mar 26 23:35:32 2026)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Found palemoon.desktop-33.9.1
-> Downloading palemoon-33.9.1.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://rm-eu.palemoon.org/release/palemoon-33.9.1.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz
Aborting...
-> error making: palemoon-gtk3-bin-exit status 1
-> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
palemoon-gtk3-bin - exit status 1
You might have to wait until the packager of AUR (en) - palemoon-gtk3-bin updates the PKGBUILD to reflect that the version is now palemoon-34.1.0.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz. The package was flagged as out-of-date on 2026-03-26.
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Or, one can edit the PKGBUILD oneself. It’s only a plain-text file, and pamac does offer that option.
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Let’s see if I’m able to do that in octopi, never tried before.
Hi,
It seems there is a problem https://rm-eu.palemoon.org/release/palemoon-33.9.1.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz (404 not found).
palemoon 33.9.1 was released 5 months ago, since then there has been 3 releases with the latest one being 34.1. older downloads are probably on the server no more.
https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/releases
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That’s because it’s out of date and 34.1.0 is the current version. The AUR package is orphaned, feel free to adopt it and update it.
It’s beyond my capability… 
put this onto a file named PKGBUILD, in a new directory/folder. change into that directory
and run;
makepkg -ci
everytime there is a new release, in the PKGBUILD;
- change the (pkgver=) to the new release version.
- change the second checksum value under (sha256sums=) to the appropriate checksum (taking form palemoon-3*...linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz)as listed under Pale Moon downloads at the bottom of the page where checksums are listed save PKGBUILD and repeat
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