Pale Moon New Version 25.0 Released

Corrine · Oct 10, 2014

Pale Moon has released version 25.0, which is a major upgrade from version 24x.

Although it was originally announced that Pale Moon 25.0 will not run on Windows XP, via Moon Child on the Pale Moon Facebook page, "Windows XP users may be happy to know about this fully endorsed version specifically for Windows XP! Both x86 and x64 supported. Pale Moon for Windows XP - Software - Binary Outcast." In addition, an exception is the specialized Atom build because of limited operating system availability on netbooks and the like. More details on the dedicated page for this change.

See this page for Known Incompatible Add-ons - Add-ons - Pale Moon. Note that although AdBlock Plus is shown as incompatible, it does indeed work. However, to edit the filters, it is necessary to open the Add-ons tab and click the icon to change filter options.

The list of changes is extremely long. Detailed information about this new version is available in the Announcement.

Security fixes:

Properly derive/insert the host of a URL
Avoid negative audio ratios (can lead to crashes) (CVE-2014-1565)
Avoid some root hazards in the style parser
Add is-object check to IonBuilder::makeCallHelper (CVE-2014-1562)
Clear the jumplist icon cache when history is cleared (privacy fix)
Crash fix on Windows (JS JIT) (CVE-2014-1554)
Prevent buffer overrun in text directionality component (CVE-2014-1567)
Update NSS to 3.16.2.1-RTM (CVE-2014-1568)

Minimum system Requirements (Windows):

Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Server 2008 or later
A processor with SSE2 support
256 MB of free RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
At least 150 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space

Pale Moon includes both 32- and 64-bit versions:

32x: Download the Pale Moon browser
64x: Pale Moon - x64 builds

Update

To get the update now, select "Help" from the Pale Moon menu at the upper left of the browser window. Select About Pale Moon > Check for Updates.

Corrine · Oct 10, 2014

Although AdBlock Plus was continuing to block ads for me on Pale Moon version 25 (since I wasn't seeing ads on websites that I know have them) check this out:

Adblock Plus (Pseudo-Static) - Add-ons - Pale Moon

About: This Pseudo-Static release provides users of Pale Moon a fully functional ABP experence while we work with the Adblock Plus team to get Pale Moon officially supported.

BEFORE YOU INSTALL PLEASE REMOVE THE MAIN-LINE VERSION AS THEY WILL CONFLICT

By: Adblock Plus Team (Modified by Pale Moon Add-ons Team)

Version: 2.4.6-pm

Compatible with Pale Moon 25.*

Download

Patrick · Oct 10, 2014

Thinking of making the switch to PM. Can anyone confirm whether or not NoScript works with it? I don't see it listed as incompatible on the addons page.

Corrine · Oct 10, 2014

According to reports in the forum, NoScript is working well with version 25.

Patrick · Oct 10, 2014

Very nice, I'll be checking out PM tonight then! I presume I'll like it better than FF as I'll be able to get away from the useless (imo) bloat Mozilla keeps packing in the new versions.

JMH · Oct 11, 2014

Patrick said:
Thinking of making the switch to PM. Can anyone confirm whether or not NoScript works with it? I don't see it listed as incompatible on the addons page.

Patrick I use Pale Moon with NoScript & have done so for quite a few years.

HonorGamer · Oct 11, 2014

Never heard of Pale Moon before, but by the looks of it, is it a knock-off of FF? Or better, using less resources?

x BlueRobot · Oct 11, 2014

It uses the same engine as Mozilla, but is a completely different browser and build altogether.

There's more information here - Pale Moon forum ? View topic - Is Pale Moon affiliated with Mozilla?

Corrine · Oct 11, 2014

See Moon Child's explanation of Why do some extensions no longer work in v25?.

Tekno Venus · Oct 12, 2014

Updated.

I have changed the config settings to report a different user agent to Google since Google was displaying the old version in Pale Moon 25 (Pale Moon forum ? View topic - Google and Beta 25)

Code:

general.useragent.override.google.co.uk;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Pale Moon)
general.useragent.override.google.com;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Pale Moon)

All my addons apart from PushBullet (https://www.pushbullet.com/) worked fine. I normally use the Windows version of PushBullet anyway, so the addon isn't important.

My currently installed Addons:

Corrine · Oct 13, 2014

Instructions by Moonchild on changing the useragent, although he stresses strongly to provide feedback to the website as Stephen did with Google: What to do when a website doesn't recognize Pale Moon

Corrine · Oct 15, 2014

Pale Moon Critical Security Update, Version 25.0.1

From Pale Moon updated to 25.0.1

Pale Moon has been updated to 25.0.1! This is a critical security and compatibility update.

Release notes:

Update of the add-on SDK to add missing "PaleMoon" engine entries to lists in some modules. This should fix extension compatibility issues for things like Self-destructing cookies, Privacybadger and other Jetpack add-ons that should otherwise already work with the new GUID.
About box release notes link corrected
Fix for VP9 decoder vulnerability security fix
Fix for direct access to raw connection sockets in http security fix
Fix for unsafe conversion to JSON of data through the alarm dom element security fix
Update of NSS to 3.16.2.2-RTM security fix

Corrine · Oct 24, 2014

Pale Moon New Version 25.0.2 Released

Pale Moon developer Moonchild succumbed to pressure and released Pale Moon version 25.0.2 which adds a "Firefox compatibility mode" selection in Options -> Advanced. This mode is enabled by default.

The update also disables SSL 3.0 by default. Note, however, that this may cause issues with some poorly configured web servers that do not support TLS 1.2 or secure (re)negotiation of the protocol.

Additional Fixes/Changes include the following:

Improved active tab display on particularly dark personas.
People using "black" personas/lightweight themes should now have a lot less difficulty distinguishing the active tab.
Fixed add-on update issue (that was preventing update checking through addons.palemoon.org).
Fixed the redundant redundancy in asking redundantly if the browser would be allowed to ask to install an extension when not on addons.mozilla.org.
Fixed the internal UA-sniffing insanity that broke devtools in a few different and colorful ways.

Release Notes

Tekno Venus · Oct 24, 2014

I'm happy that Moonchild decided to introduce that mode - however I am also glad that he attempted to do the correct thing in terms of development. It is a shame that Pale Moon has been forced to use this method though - I agree that browser sniffing is a bad practice.

I will certainly will be using Pale Moon into the foreseeable future.

-Stephen

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