Pale Moon 26.3.0

Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!

Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code, with carefully selected features and optimizations to improve the browser"s speed, resource use, stability and user experience, while offering full customization and a growing collection of extensions and themes to make the browser truly your own.

Features:

Optimized for modern processors
Based on our own optimized layout engine (Goanna)
Safe: forked from mature Mozilla code and regularly updated
Supported by a friendly, active community of users
Familiar, efficient, fully customizable interface
Support for full themes: total freedom over any element"s design
Support for easily-created lightweight themes (skins)
Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
Increased stability: experience fewer browser crashes
Support for many Firefox extensions
Support for a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive extensions
Extensive and growing support for HTML5 and CSS3
Many customization and configuration options
Able to import existing Firefox profiles with the migration tool

Pale Moon 26.3.0

Changes/fixes:

Added detection for dark system themes on Windows 10 and re-worked Windows 10 specific theming to better integrate into the OS and provide more clarity.
HTML5 media controls have been reworked to a horizontal volume control on all media, including HTML5 audio that was previously without an element-control for volume.
Default HTML5 media volume preference added as media.default_volume -- fractional, default 1.0 (=100%).
String.prototype.match() and .replace() are now fully spec compliant.
NSPR and NSS now correctly no longer enforce IA32 architecture compatibility, getting the advantage of SSE2 like the rest of the code.
Worked around crashes in the XSS filter when navigating back in history due to document fragments.
Instated a hard minimum of 10,000 places entries regardless of free disk space and total memory to prevent undesired expiration of history. That is around 16MB for an average entry size, which should be sane enough even on low-memory machines.
Fixed a typo in networking code introduced in 26.2.2 that would cause issues on some sites due to adding extra forward slashes to the URL.

Security fixes:

Fixed a number of memory safety hazards and potentially exploitable crashes.
Fixed CVE-2016-2821 Use-after-free in the mozilla::dom::Element class
Fixed netaddr deserialization for AF_UNSPEC and AF_LOCAL.
Fixed a memory overrun error in the VP8 encoder. DiD
Fixed non-threadsafe re-use of pixman images to prevent potential race conditions. DiD
Fixed CVE-2016-2825 Partial Same Origin Policy violation

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