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Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports

Pale Moon is a popular web browser that is probably best described as a spin-off of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It has seen a rise in popularity recently as it did not implement the new Firefox Australis design but that is not the only reason why it is popular.

The author of the program has made available a 64-bit version of Pale Moon for instance for Windows while Mozilla has not been making available 64-bit versions of Firefox Stable for Windows (This will change in the coming months though).

Along with the move [from 24.x] come several important changes that may impact users of the browser. For one, Pale Moon won't support Windows XP anymore.

[...]Pale Moon 25 will use a new synchronization system on a new server. This means that users who have been using synchronization in the browser will need to create a new account when they update to version 25 to continue syncing data. This works similar to how Mozilla's new Firefox Sync is set up and used.

The author notes that the old sync server will be disabled in a short period of time after the release of Pale Moon 25 to free up infrastructure and reduce costs.

Another sync related change is that add-ons are not synced anymore by default. You can check add-ons however in the sync settings so that they are synchronized across devices.

[Martin lists 5 compatibility changes]

Support for VP9 and Opus audio has been added to WebM support of the browser which improves media playback support of Pale Moon.

In the comments, developer Moonchild says

please just have a little patience. Pale Moon 25 will be released tomorrow (10/10), at which time you will receive all the relevant information related to the new release. No further information will be released ahead of time.
[...]Sneaking in ahead of time to be "first" in this case is a risk.