Pale Moon 28.7.0

Pale Moon

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

v28.7.0 release notes:

This is a major development update involving a partial JavaScript engine overhaul and improvement, implementing several website-impacting changes. It should be noted that these changes follow some revisions of specifications (also adopted by mainstream browsers) that are not necessarily backwards compatible for web content as some scripting behavior has changed. If you are targeting Pale Moon specifically (e.g. through ua sniffing) please check and verify the behavior is still as expected.

Pale Moon 28.7.0 changelog:

Landed a large JavaScript parser tune-up, which as a targeted goal brings our ES6 stringification fully in line with the ES2018 revision for classes, and implements rest/spread parameters for object literals. (Cheers to Luke!)
Fixed a crash with the tuned-up parser code when certain error messages were triggered.
Aligned browser behavior with mainstream regarding inner window behavior when domain is manipulated.
Improved performance dealing with frame properties.
Improved performance for handling html5 strings.
Improved performance of image content loading.
Fixed potential type confusion in array joins.
Fixed an issue on some pages causing high CPU usage when wrongly specifying plugin content.
Fixed an issue with the add-ons manager "discover" pane if no network connection is present.
Fixed an issue with bookmark/history search results offering context menu options that would be invalid without a selection.
Fixed the devtools JSON viewer and enabled it by default.
Fixed searching from about:home not working for search plugins using the POST method.
Fixed an issue with the checkboxes for location bar preferences.
Fixed SVG alignment issues if SVG-containing elements fall on odd pixel sizes, causing blurry display of especially small SVGs like icons/glyphs.
SVGs will now always be pixel-snapped to provide expected crisp display.
Fixed precompilation of Sync client modules when packaging. This also removes the redundant services.sync.enabled pref.
Added support for matroska containers and h264-based webm video formats.
Added support for AAC audio in matroska and webm video formats.
Added support for spaces in the Mac package and application name.
Added an exception to the unique file origin policy for font types.
Added native file picker support for xdg on Linux.
Updated the default bookmark icons.
Updated the SQLite lib to 3.29.0.
Removed e10s information from about:troubleshooting.
Removed hotfix leftovers.
Removed the WebIDE developer tool.
Removed conditional build-time disabling of the Pale Moon status bar code.
Removed "Delete this page" and "Forget about this site" links from live bookmarks (since they make no sense on feeds).
Removed the Financial Times' polyfill user-agent override since they updated their detection to work with Pale Moon.