Pale Moon 12.1 released! - Tue May 22, 2012 A major update to the browser, implementing a number of visual and under-the-hood changes.
Security fixes: • bug #745580 Thebes: handle bad results from Core Text shaping more robustly. • bug #744541 XPCOM i/o: Charset conversion issue. • bug #748613 Javascript: Scope vulnerability • bug #747688 Layout engine: Drop references for all destroyed frames • Security update of the included MSVC runtime libraries
Enhancements and fixes: • Dynamic smooth scrolling algorithm for mouse/keyboard implemented. Smooth scrolling is now also enabled by default. • Update to the status bar code to fix pop-up status not switching sides on mouse-over, as well as using a safer allocation/destruction mechanism for controls (potentially preventing memory leaks). • Fixed: cache size override on new profiles (would be set to 1GB instead of the application default of 200MB). Bug 20120512-GN. • Addition of a number of preferences in the Tabs category of the options dialog box: - A checkbox for inserting related tabs next to the current tab when opening a link; - A checkbox for closing the browser window when the last tab is closed; - A selection for new tabs: Choose from a blank page, the Pale Moon start page or the Quickdial page. • Some slight color has been re-introduced in the navigation elements to improve clarity of the UI. • Disabled an image decoding library with hazardous code. This has no impact on the browser's image decoding capabilities or performance as alternative methods for decoding are used by default. • Some changes to memory handling which potentially keep memory use better within bounds. • A change to the build environment to improve stability of Javascript. Note that this is a trade-off and may result in a slight drop in synthetic benchmarking performance of the browser compared to the previous version of Pale Moon. The impact of this on overall real-world performance of the browser is negligible.
