Pale Moon 27.4.0 (64-bit)
Pale Moon 64-bit is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!
Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code, with carefully selected features and optimizations to improve the browser’s speed, resource use, stability and user experience, while offering full customization and a growing collection of extensions and themes to make the browser truly your own. Download Pale Moon Offline Installer Setup!
Pale Moon Main Features:
Optimized for modern processors
Based on optimized layout engine (Goanna)
Safe: forked from mature Mozilla code and regularly updated
Secure: Additional security features and security-aware development
Supported by a friendly, active community of users
Familiar, efficient, fully customizable interface
Support for full themes: total freedom over any element’s design
Support for easily-created lightweight themes (skins)
Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
Increased stability: experience fewer browser crashes
Support for many Firefox extensions
Support for a growing number of Pale Moon exclusive extensions
Extensive and growing support for HTML5 and CSS3
Many customization and configuration options
Able to import existing Firefox profiles with the migration tool
Changelog
Changes/fixes:
Completely re-worked the Media Source Extensions code to make it spec compliant, and asynchronous as per specification for MSE with MP4. This should fix playback problems on YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo and other sites that previously had some issues. A massive thank you to Travis for his tireless work on making this happen!
Please note that MSE+WebM (disabled by default) is not using this new code yet (planned for the next release), and as such there is a temporary set of things to keep in mind if you don’t use default settings:
If you have previously enabled MSE+WebM, this setting will be reset when you update to avoid conflicting settings with the updated MSE code.
We’ve added an extra setting in Options to disable the updated MSE code (asynchronous use) in case you need to use WebM or are otherwise having issues with the updated code (please let us know in that case).
Once again, the MSE+WebM and Asynchronous MSE use are currently mutually exclusive. You can have one or the other, not both, until we sort out the code for WebM. To enable MSE+WebM you will first have to disable Asynchronouse MSE in settings (otherwise the WebM setting will be greyed out and disabled).
Added a control in options/preferences for HSTS and HPKP usage.
Changed HTML bookmark exports to write CRLF line endings to the file on Windows.
Leveraged multi-core rendering for libVPX (VP8/VP9 WebM decoding).
Fixed some issues accessing DeviantArt (useragent-sniffing).
Aligned CSS text-align with the spec.
Added a recovery module for browser initialization issues (e.g. when using a wrong language pack).
Fixed spurious console errors for XHR requests with certain http response codes.
Enabled v-sync aligned refresh for a smoother scrolling experience.
Removed support for CSS XP-theme media queries.
Improved console error reporting.
Fixed resetting toolbars and controls from the safe mode dialog.
Fixed bookmark recovery option from the safe mode dialog.
Fixed innerText getters for display:none elements.
Fixed a GL buffer crash that might occur with certain combinations of drivers and hardware.
Added some more details to about:support.
Fixed a potential crash when the last audio device is removed during playback.
Fixed a crash on about:support when windowless browsers are created.
Updated
Security fixes:
Removed preloading of HPKP hosts and enabled HPKP header enforcement.
Added support for TLS 1.3, the up-next secure connection protocol.
Fixed an issue with TLS 1.3 not supporting renegotiation by design.
Relaxed some restrictions for CSP to temporarily work around web compatibility issues with the CSP-3 deprecated `child-src` directive.
Updated NSS to 3.28.5.1-PM to address some security issues.
Updated the installer selfextractor module to address unsafe loading of libraries.
Changed the way certain resources are included to reduce effectiveness of some common fingerprinting techniques. (e.g. browserleaks.com)
Fixed a regression in the display of security information in the page info dialog for insecure content.
Fixed two potential issues with allocating memory for video. DiD
Fixed a potential issue with the network prediction algorithm. DiD
Restricted the use of Aspirational scripts in IDNs to prevent domain spoofing, in anticipation of the UAX#31 update making this official.
Prevented a Mac font specific issue that could be abused for domain spoofing (CVE-2017-7763)
Fixed several potentially exploitable crashes. (CVE-2017-7751) (CVE-2017-7757) and some that do not have a CVE designation.