Pale Moon 33.5.0

Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Android, 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 browsers 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 proprietary optimized layout engine (Goanna)
Safe: forked from mature Mozilla code and regularly updated
Secure: Additional security features and security-aware development
Supported by our user community, and fully non-profit
Familiar, efficient, fully customizable interface
Support for full themes: total freedom over any elements 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

Pale Moon 33.5.0 changelog:

This is a development, bugfix and security release.
Note: Intel Mac builds are now "ad hoc" signed instead of unsigned, which should solve potential issues with newer macOS while still being compatible with old OS X. If you experience issues, please post in the Mac board on the forum for support.

Changes/fixes:

Implemented Regular Expression "match indices" (/d) feature.
Added a way to programmatically clear the DNS cache in the browser, and added a button to the UI for it in about:networking.
Updated handling of referrer policies to adhere to the updated spec.
CSS font variations keywords no longer throw an error. See implementation notes.
CSS border-radius will now also apply to element outlines.
Improved the display of amount of cached web content in preferences when cache is being cleared.
Improved the installer AVX check to skip on early versions of Windows 10 (which don"t support it).
Updated NSS to 3.90.5 (unofficial) to pick up some security fixes.
Refreshed the built-in list of effective top-level domains.
Fixed several application crashes.
Reduced unnecessary debug/informative messages in release builds (WebGL and CSP).
Backed out building against ffmpeg 6.0 and ffvpx 6.0 for causing a video playback regression on full-range videos (levels 0-255).
Cleaned up a large amount of leftover Boot2Gecko code, simplifying code paths throughout the code base.
From this version forward we also publish language packs for Persian (Farsi), Hindi, Kannada and Vietnamese.
Security issues addressed: CVE-2024-11693 and CVE-2024-11704 (DiD).

Implementation notes:

The CSS font variations keywords (woff2-variations, truetype-variations, etc.) allow webmasters to indicate format hints for @font-face font resources so authors can provide alternative resources for browsers that don"t support tech(variations). The intent of these hints is to provide an alternate font with variations in addition to regular fonts without. Unfortunately, some webmasters don"t indicate a base font the variation font face would be an alternate for, which resulted in Pale Moon throwing an error on the only @font-face src entry provided, in turn having the web font not being loaded at all (because no valid entry was found), breaking website layout. From this version onwards, we parse the -variations keywords allowing variation alternative font-faces to be loaded, even if no base font was specified. To webmasters only supplying @font-face entries with variations keywords: please understand the intent of this CSS 4 spec and always provide a base font entry (graceful fallback).

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