Pale Moon Version 27.6.0 Released With Security Updates

Pale Moon has been updated to Version 27.6.0. This is a major development update. Details from the Release Notes:

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.

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.
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• 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 canplay and canplaythrough firing 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.

 Minimum system Requirements (Windows):

• Windows Vista/Windows 7/8/10/Server 2008 or later
• Windows Platform Update (Vista/7) strongly recommended
  
• A processor with SSE2 instruction support
  
• 256 MB of free RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
  
• At least 150 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space

Pale Moon includes both 32- and 64-bit versions for Windows:

• 32x:  Download the Pale Moon browser
• 64x:  Pale Moon - x64 builds

Update

To get the update now, select "Help" from the Pale Moon menu at the upper left of the browser window.  Select About Pale Moon > Check for Updates.

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