Pale Moon 33.1.0

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Version 33.1.0 of Pale Moon has been released. This web browser started out as a fork of Mozilla Firefox. By optimizing for modern hardware and omitting Accessibility features and Parental Controls, it performed a lot better. There was also a 64bit version available, well before Mozilla itself offered it. Internally it runs on Goanna, a browser engine derived from Mozilla's Gecko. The browser is available for Windows, Linux and macOS, and in beta also for FreeBSD.

Starting with version 30, the browser will identify itself outwardly as a Firefox browser again, which should make it easier to use older browser extensions. The Pale Moon download is in English only; a separate Dutch language file is available. The following changes and improvements have been implemented in this release:

New features:

  • Implemented support for single-use <link rel=preload> meta tag. This implementation allows use of it without specifying a second <link rel={type}> meta tag to actually load the linked document which was originally intended for this tag (to hint to a browser it should pre-load the document for fast painting).
  • Implemented CSP v3 keywords script-src-elem, script-src-attr, style-src-elem and style-src-attr.
  • Enabled the use of html5's <dialog> by default. While this is not yet a complete implementation, use of it in the wild dictated we enable this early. The implementation should functionally suffice for usage seen so far.
  • Added support for Emoji 15.1.
  • Implemented webkitURL legacy window alias for URL for web compatibility.
  • Implemented CSS shorthands margin-block, margin-inline, padding-block and padding-inline.
  • Added support for querying CPU capabilities (SSE2/AVX/AVX2) to the Navigator interface. For privacy reasons this is not exposed to the web, but can be used by extensions.

Changes/fixes:

  • Fixed broken mousewheel scrolling if building with –disable-npapi.
  • Fixed a minor issue with XUL tree display in some circumstances.
  • Dev: Aligned canvas Path2D.addPath with the updated spec. It now supports DOMMatrix as opposed to SVGMatrix.
  • Removed Stylo (Gecko Rust style system) leftovers from the source tree.
  • Fixed a few potential emoji display issues.

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  • Fixed an issue with Ctrl+C copying in devtools.
  • Fixed crashes when run under WINE because of its lack of support for IDXGIKeyedMutex.

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  • Fixed a crash when dealing with a specific (unmaintained) extension.
  • Added .xrm-ms files to the executable warning list on Windows.
  • Added sanity checks on http/2 header sizes.
  • Fixed a potential issue in the JavaScript JIT compiler.
  • Pulled a few fixes from upstream for the OpenType Sanitizer.
  • Added a fix to avoid a potential issue when assigning a media data buffer.
  • Security issues addressed: CVE-2024-3863, CVE-2024-3302, CVE-2024-3857 DiD, CVE-2024-3859 and CVE -2024-3861 DiD.

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