Pale Moon 20.0.1Pale Moon is a custom-built and speed optimized Firefox browser. The Pale Moon project is the work of a single individual, using contributed Open Source code to create a full-featured, speed optimized browser based on the popular Firefox browser. Having seen the advantages on other systems (e.g. Linux) with regards to programs being compiled specifically for the capabilities of the machine it is installed on, it became obviously clear that Windows users were at a disadvantage: Mozilla only releases windows executables with maximum compatibility in mind, meaning that Firefox is made to run on as many different systems as possible, sacrificing efficiency and speed in the process to be compatible with, by current standards, absolutely ancient hardware. Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, meaning you may be losing speed and efficiency when you use your browser; and truth be told, most people use their browsers all the time!That needs to change, so, here is the Pale Moon project: Custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed and efficiency out of your browser!
In addition, later versions of Pale Moon aim to provide more freedom of choice than Mozilla about how people want to browse the web, and which feedback users want to see; efficiency, after all, should not stop at the engine of a browser, but extend to all parts of it, including the user interface. Specifically, Firefox 11 has redesigned the user interface after the visions of the Mozilla Firefox product directors and user experience team; unfortunately also removing essential functions and making a few less logical design choices. Users will find a slightly more conservative approach to changes in the user interface in the Pale Moon browser, which, although very close to Firefox, is (now more obviously so than before) a different product. However, these differences in layout do not prevent anyone from configuring their browser interface to exactly the way they want it to look and work (including like Mozilla Firefoxs default layout if they so wish).
Main features: Highly optimized for modern processors
100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
Stability: experience fewer browser crashes.
Support for SVG and Canvas, and downloadable fonts including WOFF
Support for HTML5 and WebGL (v4)
Support for Firefox extensions (add-ons), themes and personas
Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)
Able to use existing Firefox profiles, bookmarks and settings with this migration tool
Changes in Pale Moon 20.0.1 (2013-04-11):
New/updated/changed major features:* Per-window Private Browsing. Learn more.
* Panel-based download manager. See the detailed changelog for more information.
* Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging.
* Performance improvements related to common browser tasks.
* Pale Moon specific Cairo performance fix for scaling/panning/zooming of HTML5 drawing surfaces.
* Pale Moon specific fixes for performance of drawing elements (gradients, etc.).
* HTML5 canvas now supports blend modes.
* Various HTML5 audio and video improvements.
* Update of the Status Bar code to work with the new code base.
* ECMAScript for XML (E4X) is kept available for add-ons. Note that this will be removed in future versions as E4X is obsolete.
* Developer tools have been enabled by default, considering the code is practically impactless unless actually used.
* Theming has been worked on to provide better contrast on glass/dark themes and to work around styling issues present in v19.
* Updated fallback character sets to Windows-1252.
* Restored legacy function key handling (uplifted from Firefox 22).
* Fixed UNC path handling (Chemspill Firefox 20.0.1).
* Always enable the use of personas, also in Private Browsing mode.
* Experimental: support for H.264 videos (disabled by default)
Security fixes relevant to Pale Moon:* MFSA 2013-30 A fairly large number of memory safety hazards (crashes/corruption/injection).
* MFSA 2013-31 Out-of-bounds write in Cairo library (CVE-2013-0800)
* MFSA 2013-34 Privilege escalation through Mozilla Updater (CVE-2013-0797)
* MFSA 2013-36 Bypass of SOW protections allows cloning of protected nodes (CVE-2013-0795)
* MFSA 2013-37 Bypass of tab-modal dialog origin disclosure (structural fix)
* MFSA 2013-38 Cross-site scripting (XSS) using timed history navigations (CVE-2013-0793)
* MFSA 2013-39 Memory corruption while rendering grayscale PNG images (CVE-2013-0792)
* MFSA 2013-40 Crash fix: Out-of-bounds array read in CERT_DecodeCertPackage (CVE-2013-0791)
Size: 15MB
Licenza: Freeware
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