Pale Moon 24.6.0

The optimized version of Firefox

Pale Moon is a custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browser for Windows operating systems with current, high performance processors. It looks identical to the standard Firefox browser and supports Firefox extensions, themes and identities.

Features:

• Highly optimized for modern processors


• 100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.


• Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code


• Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing


• Stability: experience fewer browser crashes.


• Support for SVG and Canvas, and downloadable fonts including WOFF


• Support for HTML5 and WebGL (v4+)


• Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas


• Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)


• Able to use existing Firefox bookmarks and settings with this migration tool

What's new in Pale Moon version 24.6.0:

• Allow animated personas (lightweight themes)! You will need to set a preference for this.


• Fix regularly occurring browser crashes with hardware acceleration enabled on DirectWrite 6.2/6.3 (Win 7 with Platform Update, Windows 8/8.1).


• Fix font rendering issues on DirectWrite 6.2/6.3, especially on legacy AMD hardware. (KB2670838 issues).


• Fix Windows version detection issues on Windows 8.1.


• Shuffle reported plugin installation order to confuse trackers.


• Clean up jumplist icons so they no longer pile up on disk on some systems (also a privacy concern).


• Change the sync server to a (new) Pale Moon sync server.


• Update the status bar code: Full-screen HTML5 video will no longer have status pop-ups overlaid.


• Add code to selectively ignore "autocomplete=off" on signon input fields.


• Linux: reduce gstreamer CPU overhead.


• Fix styled HTML buttons to address misaligned button contents (wrong baseline), e.g. gmail account chooser.


• Fix an old IonMonkey bug resulting in incorrect math results in some cases.


• Improve the performance of editor initialization.


• Update the Pale Moon icon for better display on lower color depths.


• Media: use a simpler way to discard superfluous audio packets.

Security fixes:

• Bug #994907 - imgDecoderObserver does reference counting on different threads, so should be using thread safe reference counting.


• Bug #992274 - Tweak an edge case in line number handling.


• Bug #995603 - Ensure mouse-enter/exit events are sent to plugins as appropriate.


• Bug #1005552 - Stop binding marquee event handlers + misc related fixes.


• Bug #1000185 - Fix several issues with SMIL.


• Bug #978811 - Fix isFakeExitFrame to return true for entry frames.


• Bug #996715 - IonMonkey: Remove the code that bails when determining if the second instruction in a chunk is a branch.


• Bug #967354 - Fix incorrect usage of UpdateWebGLErrorAndClearGLError();

Download: Pale Moon 24.6.0 | 20.3 MB (Freeware)

Download: Portable Pale Moon 24.6.0 | 22.0 MB

Download: Pale Moon 24.6.0 x64 | 23.5 MB

Download: Intel Atom-optimized Pale Moon 24.6.0 | 20.2 MB

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