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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @08:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @08:24PM (#465874)

    Nice of Pale Moon to fix this, but I wonder about the intersection of FB users with PM users? I'd guess it's pretty close to the empty set...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @08:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @08:44PM (#465878)

    I may be wrong about that, but I think that might be true, plus any other code needing to decrypt binary data client-side.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @09:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @09:28PM (#465895)

    yeah cant say i noticed it either; the problem nor the fix.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @09:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @09:30PM (#465898)

    There must be some overlap because there were posts about it on the PM forum.