Corrine Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Pale Moon has released version 25.0, which is a major upgrade from version 24x. Although it was originally announced that Pale Moon 25.0 will not run on Windows XP, via Moon Child on the Pale Moon Facebook page, "Windows XP users may be happy to know about this fully endorsed version specifically for Windows XP! Both x86 and x64 supported. Pale Moon for Windows XP - Software - Binary Outcast." In addition, an exception is the specialized Atom build because of limited operating system availability on netbooks and the like. More details on the dedicated page for this change. See this page for Known Incompatible Add-ons - Add-ons - Pale Moon. Note that although AdBlock Plus is shown as incompatible, it does indeed work. However, to edit the filters, it is necessary to open the Add-ons tab and click the icon to change filter options. The list of changes is extremely long. Detailed information about this new version is available in the Announcement. Security fixes: Properly derive/insert the host of a URL Avoid negative audio ratios (can lead to crashes) (CVE-2014-1565) Avoid some root hazards in the style parser Add is-object check to IonBuilder::makeCallHelper (CVE-2014-1562) Clear the jumplist icon cache when history is cleared (privacy fix) Crash fix on Windows (JS JIT) (CVE-2014-1554) Prevent buffer overrun in text directionality component (CVE-2014-1567) Update NSS to 3.16.2.1-RTM (CVE-2014-1568) Minimum system Requirements (Windows): Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Server 2008 or later A processor with SSE2 support 256 MB of free RAM (512 MB or more recommended) At least 150 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space Pale Moon includes both 32- and 64-bit versions: 32x: Download the Pale Moon browser 64x: Pale Moon - x64 builds Update To get the update now, select "Help" from the Pale Moon menu at the upper left of the browser window. Select About Pale Moon > Check for Updates. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Although AdBlock Plus was continuing to block ads for me on Pale Moon version 25 (since I wasn't seeing ads on websites that I know have them) check this out: Adblock Plus (Pseudo-Static) - Add-ons - Pale Moon about: This Pseudo-Static release provides users of Pale Moon a fully functional ABP experence while we work with the Adblock Plus team to get Pale Moon officially supported. BEFORE YOU INSTALL PLEASE REMOVE THE MAIN-LINE VERSION AS THEY WILL CONFLICT By: Adblock Plus Team (Modified by Pale Moon Add-ons Team) Version: 2.4.6-pm Compatible with Pale Moon 25.* Download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Thanks Corrine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share Posted October 11, 2014 See Moon Child's explanation of Why do some extensions no longer work in v25?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 (edited) Great to hear that from Moon Child. I strongly hope the Add on developers for at least some particular extensions will do so right away! Particularly some of the security related ones like NoScript, Adblock Plus, WOT (Web Of Trust), and maybe even FlashBlock. Others too but those are most important I would think for the security minded. Edited October 12, 2014 by LilBambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted October 13, 2014 Author Share Posted October 13, 2014 If you run into any websites that don't display correctly and show the "you're using an outdated browser" message, see instructions here by Moonchild on What to do when a website doesn't recognize Pale Moon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted October 15, 2014 Author Share Posted October 15, 2014 From Pale Moon updated to 25.0.1 Pale Moon has been updated to 25.0.1! This is a critical security and compatibility update. Release notes: Update of the add-on SDK to add missing "PaleMoon" engine entries to lists in some modules. This should fix extension compatibility issues for things like Self-destructing cookies, Privacybadger and other Jetpack add-ons that should otherwise already work with the new GUID. About box release notes link corrected Fix for VP9 decoder vulnerability security fix Fix for direct access to raw connection sockets in http security fix Fix for unsafe conversion to JSON of data through the alarm dom element security fix Update of NSS to 3.16.2.2-RTM security fix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Pale Moon developer Moonchild succumbed to pressure and released Pale Moon version 25.0.2 which adds a "Firefox compatibility mode" selection in Options -> Advanced. This mode is enabled by default. The update also disables SSL 3.0 by default. Note, however, that this may cause issues with some poorly configured web servers that do not support TLS 1.2 or secure (re)negotiation of the protocol. Additional Fixes/Changes include the following: Improved active tab display on particularly dark personas.People using "black" personas/lightweight themes should now have a lot less difficulty distinguishing the active tab. Fixed add-on update issue (that was preventing update checking through addons.palemoon.org). Fixed the redundant redundancy in asking redundantly if the browser would be allowed to ask to install an extension when not on addons.mozilla.org. Fixed the internal UA-sniffing insanity that broke devtools in a few different and colorful ways. Release Notes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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