Pale Moon 33.2.1

Pale Moon is a custom-built and speed optimized Firefox browser. The project uses contributed Open Source code to create a full-featured, speed optimized browser based on Firefox browser.

Having seen the advantages on other systems (e.g. Linux) with regards to programs being compiled specifically for the capabilities of the machine it is installed on, it became obviously clear that Windows users were at a disadvantage.

Mozilla only releases windows executables with maximum compatibility in mind, meaning that Firefox is made to run on as many different systems as possible, sacrificing efficiency and speed in the process to be compatible with, by current standards, absolutely ancient hardware.

Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows. That means you may be lose speed and efficiency when you use your browser.

That needs to change. Therefore Pale Moon project offers custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed and efficiency out of your browser!

Pale Moon Main features:

• Highly optimized for modern processors
• 100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
• Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas
• Able to use existing Firefox profiles, bookmarks and settings with this migration tool
• Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
• Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
• Support for HTML5 and WebGL (v4)
• Stability: experience fewer browser crashes.
• Support for SVG and Canvas, and downloadable fonts including WOFF
• Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)

Users will find a slightly more conservative approach to changes in the user interface in the Pale Moon browser. It, although very close to Firefox, is (now more obviously so than before) a different product. However, these differences in layout do not prevent anyone from configuring their browser interface to exactly the way they want it to look and work. Including like Mozilla Firefox’s default layout if they so wish.

Changes in Pale Moon 33.2.1 (2024-07-15):

• Fixed a crash in CSS grid layout.
• Set hidden HTML elements to actually always be hidden.
• Updated NSS to 3.90.3.
• Updated SQLite to 3.46.0.
• Fixed an issue with setting of cookies.
• Fixed an issue in Linux IPC code.
• Fixed an issue with DNS prefetching (disabled by default).
• Security issues addressed: CVE-2024-6611, CVE-2024-6612 DiD and several others (mostly DiD) that do not have a CVE number assigned.

Changes in Pale Moon 33.2.0 (2024-06-18):

New features:

• Implemented the missing parts of the html5 <dialog> element, including modal handling and custom backdrops.
• Implemented courser, user-configurable granularity for the canvas poisoning anti-fingerprinting measure. See implementation notes.
• Implemented new CSS viewport units svw, svh, svmin, svmax, lvw, lvh, lvmin, lvmax, dvw, dvh, dvmin and dvmax.
• Implemented new CSS logical viewport units vb, vi, svb, svi, lvb, lvi, dvb and dvi.

Changes/fixes:

• Removed the archaic and wholly outdated FIPS security module code.
• Removed the archaic DBM support code for storing of passwords in DBM format files.
• Removed the -moz prefix from -moz-fit-content, aligning with the current CSS standard fit-content value.
• Updated our build system by adopting parts of the old autoconf 2.13 as maintained code. autoconf 2.13 is no longer a build requirement. If you build from source, you may want to review your dependencies with this change.
• Fixed issues when building with GCC 14.* and Clang 16.*.
• Fixed issues with emoji sequence clusters causing incorrect rendering of emoji glyphs in some cases.
• Made some arguments to the legacy XPathEvaluator/XPathExpression interfaces optional for web compatibility.
• Fixed a crash when reporting JavaScript module exporting errors.
• Updated checking of special cookie prefixes to be case-insensitive in accordance with the current RFC 6265 (bis-11+).
• Fixed issues with external protocol handlers.
• Fixed an issue where autocomplete pop-ups would stay open in some circumstances.
• Fixed an issue with potentially bad file names being entered by the user to “Save As…”.
• Fixed several crashes and race conditions.
• Security issues addressed: CVE-2024-5699, CVE-2024-5702 DiD, CVE-2024-5690, CVE-2024-5698 DiD, CVE-2024-5688 DiD, CVE-2024-5692 and several other security issues (some more DiD) that do not have CVE numbers assigned to them.

Homepage – https://www.palemoon.org

Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10,11
• Windows Server 2008 R2 or later
• A processor with SSE2 instruction support
• 1 GB of RAM
• At least 200 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space

Size: 29.7 MB

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