Pale Moon 32.3.1 has already been released and these are its news

A few days ago the launch of the new version of the web browser "Pale Moon 32.3.1", this being a corrective version that came to implement solutions to errors that were detected in the release of version "32.3" and that were considered important to be implemented in a point version.

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 32.3.1 Main New Features

In the release of this corrective version solutions to two problems were implemented which were the intermittent blockagess related to the performance API and intermittent problemss with JavaScript malfunction in Chrome scripts (causing crashes in the UI and extensions).

For the part of the changes that were made in the release of version 32.2 and that are also part of the corrective version, we can find that there is now a hidden configuration in "browser.history.menuMaxResults" to "about:config", which when activated allows the user to set the number of browsing history entries displayed in the menu (by default, 15 entries are displayed).

Another change that stands out is thatand work has been done to improve compatibility with other browsers and fix problems when working with popular sites. For example, support has been added for calculating colors using the CSS function calc(), the findLast and findLastIndex array search methods,

It also stands out that in this releaseor will it work to clean up the code by not using it, as well as that support for experimental Mozilla plugins was removed and that the garbage collector has been improved in the JavaScript engine, which translates into solving some intermittent crashes and improving performance.

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

• When developing for all platforms, we transitioned to using the C++14 standard.
• Preparations have been made for the transition to the C++17 standard.
•  Object.hasOwn(object,property), additional methods in the international API (hourCycle, DateTimeFormat, Intl.Locale).
• Stopped parsing symbolic links when listing directories.
• Updated the list of extensions in Windows treated as "executables".
• Security issues addressed: CVE-2023-37208.
• Since no browser honors this part of the spec at this time, this is left disabled until there is consensus among browsers.
• Summary of UXP Mozilla security patches: 2 fixed, 2 rejected, 20 not applicable.

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 23.04. They just have to add the repository and install by typing the following commands:

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser:/palemoon-GTK3/xUbuntu_23.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser:palemoon-GTK3.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser:palemoon-GTK3/xUbuntu_23.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_stevenpusser_palemoon-GTK3.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install palemoon
 

Now for users who are on the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS version execute the following:

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser:/palemoon-GTK3/xUbuntu_22.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser:palemoon-GTK3.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser:palemoon-GTK3/xUbuntu_22.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_stevenpusser_palemoon-GTK3.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install palemoon

For whoever they are Ubuntu 20.04 LTS users they will run the following commands in the terminal:

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser:/palemoon-GTK3/xUbuntu_20.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser:palemoon-GTK3.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser:palemoon-GTK3/xUbuntu_20.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_stevenpusser_palemoon-GTK3.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install palemoon