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Pale Moon 27.1 Released With Major Compatibility Improvements

posted by on Saturday February 11 2017, @02:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the mozilla-killa dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

Fans of the Pale Moon web browser are probably already aware of this, but version 27.1 has been released as of February 9th, 2017. This update brings a number of improvements, some of them pretty major; here's a handful that I think are worth noting:

This version introduces the so-called "PMkit" modules, our effort to restore most compatibility with Firefox Jetpack/SDK extensions

Reworked the media back-end completely (thanks Travis!) to use FFmpeg (including support for FFmpeg v3 and MP3 playback) and our own MP4 parser, and no longer relying on gstreamer on Linux

Changed the way scripts are handled when they are stopped from the "unresponsive script" dialog, to prevent browser lockup

Made the use of let as a keyword versionless and ES6 compliant

You can read the full release notes in the forum thread about it or on the release notes page.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday February 11 2017, @03:05PM

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday February 11 2017, @03:05PM (#465776) Journal
    Unecessary levels of redirection and complication is my best guess. Pretty sure Gstreamer actually winds up calling ffmpeg for these jobs anyway, after an indeterminate amount of time thinking about it. No?
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @03:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @03:12PM (#465778)

    So you don't actually know, you are just guessing.
    Thanks

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @04:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @04:02PM (#465798)

      Hi Aristarchus, it's not like you know anything at all.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @06:48PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @06:48PM (#465852)

        Aristarchus: He knows more than Chuck Norris, so there is that.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @04:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @04:27PM (#465806)

    I always though gstreamer provided an unified API independent of the backend doing all the work, some do ffmpeg, but other formats could be decoded by other libs.