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Alternative Browser Pale Moon Releases Version 25.6.0 With Privacy, Security Fixes

posted by janrinok on Monday July 27 2015, @08:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the doing-what-FF-promised-to-do dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by number6 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:00AM

    by number6 (1831) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:00AM (#214787) Journal

    I use two side-by-side monitors, left is the primary and is wide screen 1920x1080, right is 1600x1200.
    The browser displays on the left monitor and fills the screen dimensions EXCEPT its left margin is narrowed to the right by 150pixels leaving a strip of desktop exposed at all times.
    The right monitor is my drag-drop desktop area.

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    Just to confirm your results, I will try again creating a dragged desktop URL with Opera v9.62 on my system (Windows XP)......

    - Run Opera 9.62, build 10467, Win32, (c) 2008
    - Load page: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/07/27/1410258
    - Drag URL to blank desktop space at right-monitor and let go of mouse....the URL has vanished !!

          ...Upon further investigation I see that the URL WAS CREATED but at monitor one and auto-arranged as the last icon !!

    So Opera v9 actually does create drag-dropped URL's to the desktop BUT completely ignores mouse tracking control !!
    I can't remember another program on my system which chooses to completely ignore mouse tracking control........OPERA IS A FUCKING WIERD ECLECTIC PROGRAM !!

    Anyhow, you are right, Opera v9 does allow URL drag-drop to desktop.
    You know, all these years of using it I never noticed this phenomenon !!

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