The release of the new version of Pale Moon 31.1, version in which various bug fixes, improvements and more have been made.
For those who are unfamiliar with the browser, they should know that this is a fork of the firefox codebase to provide better performance, preserve the classic interface, minimize memory consumption, and provide additional customization options.
The project adheres to the classic organization of the interface, without changing to the Australis interface integrated in Firefox 29, and with the provision of extensive customization possibilities.
Remote components include DRM, Social API, WebRTC, PDF viewer, Crash Reporter, code to collect statistics, parental controls, and people with disabilities. Compared to Firefox, the browser retains support for XUL technology and retains the ability to use both full and lightweight themes.
Pale Moon 31.1 Main New Features
In this new version of Pale Moon 31.1, we can find that added and enabled Mojeek search engine by default, which does not depend on other search engines and does not filter the content presented to users. Unlike DuckDuckGo, Mojeek is not a metasearch engine, it maintains its own independent search index and does not use indexes from other search engines. Data indexing is supported in English, French, and German.
Another change that stands out is the improved operation of file selection dialogs in Windows.
The restored support for the gMultiProcessBrowser property for improve compatibility with Firefox add-ons. At the same time, multiprocessing content rendering mode is still disabled and the gMultiProcessBrowser property always returns false (gMultiProcessBrowser support is required for plugins that define work in multiprocessing mode).
On the other hand, the library NSS has been updated to version 3.52.6, whereupon to NSS library returned support for FIPS mode, also memory handling has been improved in the JavaScript engine and the FFvpx codec compatibility layer has been updated to version 4.2.7.
Of the other changes that are staked out of this new version:
- Improved compatibility with animated GIF encoders.
- Moved fixes for Mozilla repositories security issues.
- Implemented a boolean assignment operator "x ??= y ", which performs an assignment only if "x" is null or undefined.
- Fixes and improvements related to hardware acceleration support.
- Fixed issues in XPCOM causing crashes.
- Fixed issue with displaying large tooltips that don't fit in the viewable area.
- Improved support for multimedia formats. For MP4 playback on Linux, libavcodec 59 and FFmpeg 5.0 libraries are supported.
Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it about this new version, you can check the details In 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 still has current support. And in this new version of the browser there is already support for Ubuntu 22.04. They just have to add the repository and install by typing the following commands:
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/xUbuntu_22.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/xUbuntu_22.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_stevenpusser.gpg > /dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install palemoon
Now for users who are on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS version execute the following:
cho 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/xUbuntu_20.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_stevenpusser.gpg > /dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install palemoon
For whoever they are Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users they will run the following commands in the terminal:
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/xUbuntu_18.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_stevenpusser.gpg > /dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install palemoon