Pale Moon: 27.6.0 (2017-11-07) https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml
This is a major development update.
Changes/fixes:
- Dropped support for Direct2D 1.0 to avoid font rendering issues. Windows installations not capable of using Direct2D 1.1 will now fall back to software rendering. As a result, fonts may look different from this version onwards if you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7. Users on Windows 7 affected by this should install the Platform Update to re-enable Direct2D.
- Updated the Brotli decoder library, and enabled support for Brotli HTTP content-encoding by default.
- Added notifications to inform users about WebExtensions not being supported if they try to install them (as opposed to "extension is corrupt")
- Added a number of DOM childNode convenience functions. This should fix some lazy-loading frameworks.
(enjoy your LOLcats again!) - Changed automatic updates over to the new infrastructure.
- Added extra proxy settings in Options, covering DNS lookups through SOCKS v5 and automatic proxy authentication with known credentials.
- Added a selectable fallback character encoding of UTF-8 and fallback to UTF-8 as a last effort. (Issue #1423)
- Improved timing of
canplayandcanplaythroughfiring to work around a potential race condition locking up queued video playback. - Improved upmixing of mono sound for multi-channel setups.
- Fixed a parallelization issue with the KISS-FFT library causing CPU-deadlocked threads (Issue #1425)
- Fixed "Remove from history" function from the downloads panel.
- Forced focus on the address bar in new windows if the content is a blank/empty document.
- Fixed the dropmarker in the address bar to allow the suggestions to be closed with a click.
- Further cleaned up the status bar code.
- Disabled window.showModalDialog; it's been removed from the spec 2 years ago and has potential abuse issues (modal dialogs block the UI)
- Fixed image decoder calls to make sure the image load event doesn't fire prematurely.
- Updated LibPNG to 1.6.28, and enabled faster SSE2 decoding.
- Updated WOFF2 code from upstream.
- Updated the zlib compression library.
- Made general improvements to internal code structure and spec adherence.
- Fixed an issue with certain command-line parameters being used.
- Updated the default theme to improve consistency and contrast of toolbar and download buttons.
- Increased the default duration of notification pop-ups and made them configurable.
- Improved handling of audio-visual media (ongoing).
- Fixed an issue in CSS where elements would sometimes reflow to the next line even with sufficient visual space.
- Aligned the implementation of
for(let x=y;;)loops with the final ES6 specification. - Fixed the selection system inside of a nested contenteditable element being broken.
- Fixed Windows 10 detection for blocklisting graphics drivers.
- Enabled pasting of clipboard data in documents without an editor element to improve web compatibility.
- Fixed the uninstallation routine of restartless add-ons.
- Fixed the handling of unimplemented functions in the console API.
- Updated the Facebook user-agent to enable otherwise vendor-restricted functionality.
- Updated the SVG scaling cache limit to be more lenient for larger SVG images at a small performance trade-off, working around some sites' design issues.
Security/privacy fixes:
- Added an option to clear Site Connectivity Data (delete history).
- Removed stale entries from the HSTS preload list, and improved generation/processing of it.
- Removed undesired certificate issuer organization to common name fallback (if issuer org is empty).
- Added pretty-printing for ECDSA-SHA224, 256, 384 and 512 hashed certificate signatures.
- Worked around some more issues with broken Apple fonts.
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Update via the internal Updater: Help / About Pale Moon ; or full downloads:
32-bit version https://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-win32.shtml
x64-bit version https://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-win64.shtml