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Pale Moon, an alternative browser that forked from Firefox around the time that Firefox went to the "Australis" interface and is a favorite of many Soylentils, has released version 25.6.0 as of today. So what's new in Pale Moon? Let's check the changelog (I'll abbreviate to give you a quick runthrough):
- Canvas anti-fingerprinting option: Pale Moon now includes the option to make canvas fingerprinting much more difficult.
- Added a feature to allow icon fonts to be used even when users disallow the use of document-specified fonts (no more dreaded "boxes" with hex codes).
- Added a feature to prevent screen savers from kicking in when playing full-screen HTML5 video. (Windows only for now)
- The "autocomplete=off" parameter for signon forms is now completely ignored by default, to keep the user in control of their browser's behavior
- Added the option to use Chrome://../skin/ overrides, in effect allowing the use of "Icon themes"
- Added a count for the number of matches in the find bar
Plus many others that seems less significant to me (but click through for the full list if you'd like to make your own decisions about what's "significant").
There's also a number of security fixes, which I won't quote here but can be found after the list of non-security-related changes.
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Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes
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Croll's Query:
If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 27 2015, @08:48PM
They've already got the .tar.bz2 file for Linux. Downloading now! No installation necessary, of course - just unpack, and click the executable. For best results, rename or remove the existing Palemoon directory first.
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Monday July 27 2015, @08:49PM
You aren't going to audit the source code to look for backdoors?
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 27 2015, @08:58PM
I've already browsed through the old version. As I've said before, I'm not competent to read the source, but I do like to scroll down through it. No, I'm not auditing the new version - not now. It's to late in the day, even if I felt like it.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 27 2015, @08:51PM
And, I'm back! *bows*
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Monday July 27 2015, @09:08PM
They have a Linux installer as well - which includes an automatic updater. Which reminds me, I found out about the update at work, need to apply it here at home as well.
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(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Monday July 27 2015, @09:09PM
Correction: The Linux version via the installer does NOT have an auto-updater. I thought it did, but now that I'm looking for....it's not there.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 27 2015, @09:23PM
If I shared my computer with anyone, I'd probably have to install the browser properly. I got used to just unpacking the archive a long time ago, with Firefox. That way, I could run the release, or the beta, or the alpha/nightly, at will. It was a lot simpler that way.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:54AM
It's not an automatic updater, but you can use it to update semi-manually (it pulls down the newest version when you update).
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