The new version of Pale Moon 30.0 has already been released and these are its news

Few days ago the release of the new version of the web browser palemoon 30.0, version which comes to mark a new branch of development and in which various improvements have been made.

Of the most noticeable changes that stand out from this new version of Pale Moon 30.0 we can find that support for old unmodified Firefox add-ons has been returned. And it is that the browser moved away from the use of the native global browser identifier (GUID) in favor of the identifier of Firefox, which will allow maximum compatibility with all old and unmaintained add-ons developed at the same time for Firefox (previously, so that the plugin works).

It is mentioned that in Pale Moon, needed a special adaptation, which created difficulties with using plugins that ran out of maintainers). The plugin site developed by the project will support specially tailored XUL plugins for Pale Moon and distributed XUL plugins for Firefox.

Another change that stands out in this new version of Pale Moon 30.0 is that the use of the UXP platform (Unified XUL Platform), which developed a branch of the Firefox components from the Mozilla Central repository, has been discontinued, freed from links to the Rust code and not including the developments of the Quantum project. Instead of UXP, the browser will now be built on top of the GRE environment (Goanna Runtime Environment), based on the most up-to-date Gecko engine code, clean of unsupported components and platform code.

It is also highlighted that the GPC mechanism was implemented (Global Privacy Control), which replaced the “DNT” (Do Not Track) header and allows sites to be informed about the prohibition on the sale of personal data and its use to track preferences or movements between sites.

In addition to that, also it is noted that the structure of the package was modified for internationalization and language support. Due to work being done to re-verify translations, there has been a decrease in coverage of language pack items.

Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:

• The setting to choose Pale Moon as the default browser has been moved to the “General” section.
• The emoji collection is now compatible with Twemoji 13.1.
• To improve site compatibility, the Selection.setBaseAndExtent() and queueMicroTask() methods have been added.
• Improved customization of the appearance of scrollbars through themes.
• Profile format changed: After upgrading to Pale Moon 30.0, the profile cannot be used with the previous Pale Moon 29.x branch.

Finally, for those who are interested in learning more about it, you can consult the details at the following link.

How to install Pale Moon web browser on Ubuntu and derivatives?

For those who are interested in being able to install this web browser on their distro, they will only have to open a terminal in your system and type any of the following commands.

The browser has repositories for each version of Ubuntu that is still currently supported. And in this new version of the browser there is already support for Ubuntu 20.04. You just have to add the repository and install by typing the following commands:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/xUbuntu_20.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list"
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key -O Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install palemoon 

Now for users who are on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS version execute the following:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/xUbuntu_18.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list"
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key -O Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install palemoon

For whoever they are Ubuntu 16.04 LTS users they will run the following commands in the terminal:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/xUbuntu_16.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list"
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/xUbuntu_16.04/Release.key -O Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install palemoon

While for those who are users Ubuntu 21.04 and 21.10 they should know that the corresponding deb package hasn't been built yet, so they can monitor it from this link.
When it is available they just download and install it with their preferred package manager.