Pale Moon Browser 28.8.0 Release

Submitted by web browser release Pale Moon 28.8, which forked from the Firefox codebase to provide greater performance, retain the classic interface, minimize memory consumption, and provide more customization options. Pale Moon builds are formed for Windows ΠΈ Linux (x86 and x86_64). Project Code spreads licensed under MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License).

The project adheres to the classic organization of the interface, without switching to the Australis interface integrated in Firefox 29 and providing extensive customization options. Removed components include DRM, Social API, WebRTC, PDF viewer, Crash Reporter, statistics collection code, parental controls, and people with disabilities. Compared to Firefox, the browser retains support for XUL technology and retains the ability to use both full-fledged and lightweight themes. Pale Moon is built on a platform UXP (Unified XUL Platform), which forked Firefox components from the Mozilla Central repository, freed from bindings to Rust code and not including the developments of the Quantum project.

Π’ new version:

  • Added support for Solaris OS variants such as Illumos;
  • For tables, the "position: sticky" CSS property has been implemented to fix the position of tables regardless of scrolling;
  • Added basic support for JavaScript modules;
  • The Promise.prototype.finally() and String.prototype.matchAll methods are implemented, as well as extended support for regular expressions (support for parsing backwards and the /s flag);
  • Updated versions of cairo, SQLite 3.30.1, Brotli 1.0.7,
    woff2 1.0.2, OpenType Sanitizer 8.0.0;

  • Updated built-in font for Emoji (twemoji 0.5.0);
  • Improved CSS grid rendering;
  • To compress the supplied packages, 7z/xz is used instead of zip/bz2;
  • Added a setting to disable the authentication confirmation request (to protect against DoS attacks through dialog loops);
  • By default, support for public key binding (HPKP, HTTP Public Key Pinning) is disabled.

Source: opennet.ru

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