Pale Moon 24.6.0

Pale Moon

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();