Pale Moon 32.1 has already been released and these are your news

The release of the new corrective version of the web browser Pale Moon 32.1, version in which various bug fixes have been made from the previous version that has focused on compatibility improvements for the web. In particular, the Google WebComponents implementation is now in a state where we enable them by default.

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.

Pale Moon 32.1 Main New Features

The new version Pale Moon 32.1 stands out than Mac versions (for Mac Intel and ARM) They are no longer in beta and they are considered stable, in addition to the fact that the JavaScript engine has been improved, as well as video playback improvements.

Another of the changes that stands out in the new version of Pale Moon 32.1 is the support for the WebComponents suite of technologies to create custom HTML tags is enabled by default, including custom element specifications, Shadow DOM , JavaScript modules, and HTML templates, which are used on GitHub, for example. Of the WebComponents established in Pale Moon, only the CustomElements and Shadow DOM APIs have been implemented so far.

In addition, it is mentioned that removed unused system settings “Tracking Protection” and code cleaned up (Pale Moon uses its own block counter system to track visits, and Firefox's "Tracking Protection" system was not used).

On the other hand, the tail of the titles of the tabs that do not fit all the text has been grayed out (instead of showing an ellipsis).

Also highlighted is improved object handling with regular expressions, for which correct garbage collection is provided.

Of the other changes that stand out:

• Updated Promise implementations and asynchronous functions. The Promise.any() method has been implemented.
• VP8 video playback issues have been resolved.
• Built-in font updated with emoji.
• Implemented ":is()" and ":where()" CSS pseudoclasses.
• Complex selectors have been implemented for the ":not()" pseudo-class.
• The inline CSS property has been implemented.
• The env() CSS function has been implemented.
• Added rendering video rendering with RGB color model, not just YUV.
• Video processing provided with a full range of brightness (0-255 levels).
• The Web Text-to-Speech API is enabled by default.
• Updated library versions NSPR 4.35 and NSS 3.79.4.
• Improved code generation security in the JIT engine.

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 every version of Ubuntu that is still in 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