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(2016-01-26)
“This is a new milestone release !
It’s been in the works for a good number of months, and has many hundreds of notable changes, fixes,
and improvements that can’t possibly all be listed here.These release notes for this version are a concise summary, lifting out the most prominent and important changes.
You may find slightly more detailed release notes on the forum.
“A summary of important changes, for the complete list see the release notes
General release notes
Pale Moon is now building on the new Goanna engine instead of Gecko.
Fixes / changes
The layout parser/renderer has received many updates with this change over to Goanna,
improving web compatibility and standards compliance in many areas.The browser user interface has received updates, making it more compatible with Windows 10 in many respects,
and more in line with the general styles of the operating system version it is run on in terms of the shapes of controls,
and color setting.
Updated graphics/media support: Pale Moon now supports the WebP image format, properly scales EXIF rotated JPEGs,
has updated support for different WebGL texture formats, improved scaling of vector images,
updated libpng, libjpeg-turbo, libvpx, and misc other upstream libraries/modules, and more !Security updates
Added support for 128-bit Camellia-GCM ciphers in addition to the existing CBC ciphers,
to offer a more internationally diverse choice of secure encryption ciphers than just AES.
Added an advanced, active XSS (cross-site scripting) filter.
Pale Moon will now check for XSS attacks and block XSS content in the resulting pages.
Distrusted several root certificates in accordance with security best practice.
Removed several hazardous modules like the maintenance service and the identity module.Ported all security updates from Mozilla that are applicable/relevant to our code base,
(up to and including all security issues made known to us until now).PM 26 is faster than 25.8.1.
No problems so far with PM 32-bit, but the problems with PM 64-bit on Youtube are still there.The problem occurs when watching a video on youtube, switching to another program, back to PM,
and immediately selecting fullscreen video in the flashplayer.
Then the plugin-container crashes.If you get that problem on Youtube, use the 32-bit version of PM (on Youtube) instead.
You can have both versions (32-bit & 64-bit) installed, just install them in different folders… 😉
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