Pale Moon Security Update, v24.7.2

[Corrine]

From the Announcement (emphasis added)

 

Pale Moon has been updated to 24.7.2, a small update addressing a few security issues and small bugs.

This will be the last update of the 24.* series of Pale Moon (unless something absolutely critical pops up that needs an immediate fix). The next version will be a new major version 25.

 

Release notes for this version:

 

Fixes/changes:

 

• Use (i) icon for error console informational messages instead of (?)
  
• Properly derive and insert the host of a URL security fix
  
• Avoid negative audio ratios. security fix
  
• Release XPCOM timer immediately after firing to prevent a race condition.
  
• Add is-object check to IonBuilder::makeCallHelper. security fix
  

 

[Guest LilBambi]

Thanks Corrine!!

[Webb]

I have heard that Moonchild is discontinuing support for Windows XP. Any idea whether this patch will run on XP?

[Guest LilBambi]

The last update to the 24.x patch worked automatically on XP. No idea about this one yet. Haven't had time to boot it up.

[Webb]

I'm a little wary of Pale Moon so I always make a copy of it before I install an update.

 

24.7.2 seems to be running fine under XP.

[Corrine]

Note that Windows XP will not be supported with version 25 of Pale Moon, although I understand that the specialised Atom (x86) version, which is optimised for the older Atom netbooks and their restricted hardware, will work.