Pale Moon 27 Beta 2

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 v27 public beta 1 (2016-10-04):

Sync is available. Casual testing has been performed to set up a new account and synchronize data.
One known issue that isn"t directly related to sync is that when syncing add-ons, downloads of these add-ons may fail (for security reasons).
The status bar and indicators are back! We"ve worked on fully integrating the relevant code.
Pale Moon now has devtools available again. This includes a more modern port of them from a later Firefox version. Expect to find some bugs here, since the integration into our front-end is rather complex.
This version doesn"t come with an updater because we want to, at this point, have a known control point for bugfixing. To update to a later version you"ll have to manually install.
Added features since the previous version:
Added a preference to control Generational Garbage Collection in the JavaScript engine and disabled it by default after extensive comparative testing.
Improved worst-case minor garbage collection latency and releasing of wrapped JS code.
Animated SVG in OpenType fonts now work and don"t kill browser responsiveness.
Implemented an improved implementation of background-repeat:space and background-repeat:round CSS statements.
Added MouseEvent.offsetX and MouseEvent.offsetY.
Added the "noopener" link option for hyperlinks.
Added several optimizations and improvements for Vista and higher versions of Windows.
Added many media handling improvements
Implemented HTTP/2 pseudo-header restrictions in accordance with RFC 7540.

Most important changes/fixes since beta 1:

Fixed up most of the devtools.
Removed WebappRT.
Fixed OCSP options.
Removed inclusion of the WindowsXP DirectX library for WebGL.
(no longer in use on supported platforms)
Fixed about:credits.
Fixed a crash in offsetX/Y events (e.g. triggered by IMDB videos)
Changed the "default browser" Windows system integration for later versions of Windows to work around Microsoft blocking explicit control panel module calls.
Restored wider spacing to about:config for the time being.
Fixed html button content padding
Fixed RSS feeds view/subscription
Fixed up some media back-end issues + added improvements
Updated libVPX to 1.4
Fixed missing tabstrip scroll arrows

Additional important information:

Pale Moon 27 Beta 2 does not support Jetpack/add-on SDK extensions any longer. Any extensions falling into this category will now be clearly marked as such in the Add-on Manager in the browser.
The browser is available in US-English only. Our current release language packs will not work.

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