Pale Moon 20.0.1

Published April 11, 2013 by Download Software

Pale Moon is the next generation of custom-built and optimized Firefox-based browsers. Drawing on the brand new Gecko 2 engine, Pale Moon has the following features:

Hardware acceleration of browser windows using Direct3D
Direct2D rendering on operating systems and hardware that support it
DirectWrite font rendering on systems that support it
WebGL 3D graphics, either using native OpenGL (default) or DirectX (via ANGLE)
HTML5 support
New Jaegermonkey javascript engine
Blazingly fast DOM handling

System Requirements:

Operating System: Windows All Version
Language: English-US
License: Freeware
Author: The Pale Moon

Changelog:

New Features:

Per-window Private Browsing.
Panel-based download manager. See the detailed changelog for more information.
Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging.
Performance improvements related to common browser tasks.
Pale Moon specific Cairo performance fix for scaling/panning/zooming of HTML5 drawing surfaces.
Pale Moon specific fixes for performance of drawing elements (gradients, etc.).
HTML5 canvas now supports blend modes.
Various HTML5 audio and video improvements.
Update of the Status Bar code to work with the new code base.
ECMAScript for XML (E4X) is kept available for add-ons. Note that this will be removed in future versions as E4X is obsolete.
Developer tools have been enabled by default, considering the code is practically impactless unless actually used.
Theming has been worked on to provide better contrast on glass/dark themes and to work around styling issues present in v19.
Updated fallback character sets to Windows-1252.
Restored legacy function key handling (uplifted from Firefox 22).
Fixed UNC path handling (Chemspill Firefox 20.0.1).
Always enable the use of personas, also in Private Browsing mode.
Experimental: support for H.264 videos (disabled by default)

Security Fixes:

MFSA 2013-30 A fairly large number of memory safety hazards (crashes/corruption/injection).
MFSA 2013-31 Out-of-bounds write in Cairo library (CVE-2013-0800)
MFSA 2013-34 Privilege escalation through Mozilla Updater (CVE-2013-0797)
MFSA 2013-36 Bypass of SOW protections allows cloning of protected nodes (CVE-2013-0795)
MFSA 2013-37 Bypass of tab-modal dialog origin disclosure (structural fix)
MFSA 2013-38 Cross-site scripting (XSS) using timed history navigations (CVE-2013-0793)
MFSA 2013-39 Memory corruption while rendering grayscale PNG images (CVE-2013-0792)
MFSA 2013-40 Crash fix: Out-of-bounds array read in CERT_DecodeCertPackage (CVE-2013-0791)

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