Pale Moon 32.5 arrives with transparency support in videos, bookmarks menu and more

The new version of Pale Moon 32.5 has already been released and comes with support for transparency in videos WebM when using tag for animated images with transparency. The change can have a big impact on video playback performance if the video has an alpha channel.

Another change that stands out in this new version was at the request of users, since a setting that allows you to leave the bookmarks menu open after opening bookmarks in new tabs (by pressing the middle mouse button or Ctrl+click ). By default, the bookmarks menu closes immediately after opening a bookmark. The feature is enabled by default.

In addition to this, in this new version of Pale Moon 32.5 removed overriding User Agent value for Netflix after support for the Silverlight browser plugin was discontinued on this service. The Pale Moon Browser No longer supports playing DRM content on Netflix and has no plans to return said support.

It is also highlighted that the initial implementation of the ReadableStreams API was added, as well as that support for crypto.randomUUID method, which allows website scripts to generate random UUIDs using the WebCrypto API.

On the other hand, it is mentioned that Web Worker supports nested and clamping timers, improved rendering of SVG images on surfaces that do not have specified height or width attributes and improved performance of the memory allocation mechanism.

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

• Added protection against overriding the sec-gpc (Global Privacy Control) header.
• The setInterval, ResizeObserver, Intl.NumberFormat, and DefaultNumberOption() functions comply with the updated specifications.
• The libvpx library has been updated to version 1.6.1.
• The media playback code has been cleaned up and updated.
• Removed support for enabling GMP (Gecko Media Plugin) as it was only used by unsupported components such as EME/DRM and WebRTC.
• The last bits of EME/DRM code have been removed because the Palemoon browser developers believe these features should not be used by any application, due to the media industry's "draconian" policies regarding free and open source software. open.
• The simd.js file has been removed and is now replaced with C++ code.
• Use of the libav library has been discontinued in favor of FFMpeg's FFT functions.
• Restrictions related to compatibility with new versions of GLSL have been removed.
• Removed User Agent value override for Spotify. Spotify support remains for now, but only some DRM content will be played.

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