Pale Moon is an open-source, Mozilla-based web browser that can be used as an alternative to the most popular Internet browsers. It has a very attractive and useful startup page, with shortcuts to the most commonly used websites. Those shortcuts are sorted out by categories. For example, the social media category includes shortcuts to sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and so on, while the E-mail category shows shortcuts to Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and others. This is a very convenient feature, and you can customize each category to include those sites most visited for you, or delete those that you don't use.
You can further customize the browser by adding extensions and add-ons. Although the program has many add-ons of its own, those of Firefox are also compatible with it, so if you can't find an add-on that suits your needs at the Pale Moon site, you can search it at Firefox's.
An advantage is that, unlike MS Edge and Chrome, this browser is compatible with Java, since there are many websites that still use this platform. Also, the program's default search engine is DuckDuckGo, a less-known engine whose advantage is that it does not track your searches.
To sum up, it is a good browser that can be used as an alternative to Firefox, Chrome, Explorer and other common programs. You may want to try it.
v20.3 [Jul 27, 2013]
Changes:
- A change to how tab histories are cached to improve the overall memory footprint and make browsing smoother, especially when using a large number of tabs with extensive active use.
- A change to the networking pipelining back-end to use a more aggressive fallback if there are issues with pipelining requests, to minimize delays when loading pages and prevent time-outs.
- Update of the compiler to Visual Studio 2012 Update 3, to fix a few compiler issues.
- Removed the double entry for smooth scrolling selection in preferences (leaving just the one in the scrolling tab)
Fixes:
- ASAN heap-use-after-free in nsINode::GetParentNode
- Non-null crash at nsCString::CharAt
- Code injection through internal updater
- InstallTrigger can use the wrong principal when validating URI loads
- Cross Domain Policy override using webworkers
- Fix for Updater crash
- Fix for XSS vulnerability/URI spoofing
- Fix for newly allocated WebGL array buffers (prevent the use of uninitialized memory)
- Several fixes for the SSL crypto library (CVE-2013-1705 and others)
- Fix for do_QueryFrame support
- x64: Fix for Yarr error
- Update to the installer's 7zsfx module to prevent dll hijacking
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