Fix Pale Moon browser not passing Cloudflare's "Checking Your Browser" verification

The Pale Moon net browser runs into an infinite “checking your browser” loop on websites that use Cloudflare’s browser integrity verify characteristic.

I confirmed the difficulty within the newest launch variations of the Pale Moon browser. Some websites show the “checking your browser earlier than accessing” web page again and again. There doesn’t look like a method round this on the time of writing, and the difficulty is mentioned in varied locations, together with the official Pale Moon discussion board but additionally the Cloudflare help discussion board.

The message that’s displayed on the web page that’s reloading infinitely could differ, relying on how the positioning has carried out the performance. SteamDB, a well-liked database web site for the gaming platform Steam, shows the present message throughout browser integrity checks.

It’s unclear why the infinite loop is occurring, as Cloudflare has not revealed an official assertion. One person urged that it may have one thing to do with the person agent that’s revealed to websites when pages are loaded. Pale Moon contains reference to Firefox 68.0 within the person agent for compatibility functions. Firefox 68.0 is an previous model of Firefox, which was launched in June 2019.

The lead developer of the Pale Moon browser revealed a touch upon Cloudflare’s neighborhood web site, stating that the browser was additionally figuring out itself as Pale Moon on a regular basis. Certainly, the newest model of Pale Moon identifies as such within the person agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Home windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/5.0 Firefox/68.0 PaleMoon/30.0.1

Cloudflare’s parser could object to the Firefox half, as that model is previous and not maintained by Mozilla.

It seems, from the dialogue on the official web site, that this problem could not get fastened. If that’s the case, it will influence Pale Moon’s compatibility on the Web considerably. Pale Moon customers may attempt to spoof the person agent to see if this will get them handed the verify.

Right here is how that’s accomplished:

Set up the Consumer Agent Standing extension for Pale Moon and restart the browser.
Click on on the icon of the extension within the Standing Bar, and substitute the Useragent string with Mozilla/5.0 (Home windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0.
1. Observe that you could be want to regulate the string to observe the newest Firefox releases.
Activate the “Set UA” button.

The browser ought to go Cloudflare’s integrity verify and the precise web site ought to load nice.

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