Pale Moon 24.6 Update for Windows and Linux

Version 24.6 of the increasingly popular Pale Moon browser has been released.

This is a major update which includes a rendering engine overhaul as well as a number of very important fixes, particularly relating to improving privacy and security.

Fixes/Changes

• 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();

Update

To get the update now, select "Help" from the Pale Moon menu at the upper left of the browser window, then pick "About Pale Moon."

Pale Moon has both 32- and 64-bit versions for Windows, a portable version and a Linux version available from the Download tab from the Pale Moon home page.

References

• Pale Moon Change Log
• Pale Moon Home Page

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