Pale Moon 24.0.2 released!

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Pale Moon 24.0.2 released!

Unread post by Moonchild » 2013-09-27, 08:40

Another small update but important enough to push out as fast as possible. Sorry for the rapid point releases, everyone!

This update fixes:
  • User interface paint issues (blank/empty controls and address bar) that would occur in some cases when viewing standalone images.
  • Excessive processor usage in some cases when viewing standalone images.
  • Slow thumbnail creation when viewing standalone images.
These issues are all caused by the same piece of code that should have been updated in Firefox by Mozilla a long time ago, but never was. I've replaced it with a more efficient version of the thumbnail generation code, which has the following effects:
  • Thumbnails will be created for (much) larger sized images. There is still a limit and excessively large images will not be processed, but most images will have a thumbnail drawn now.
  • Lower processor usage.
  • The address bar shows a generic graphics icon instead of the thumbnail when viewing an image file; thumbnails will only be shown in the tab header.
  • browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size no longer has an effect, with the exception of setting it to 0 - this will disable thumbnail creation.
    The preference is still used, but only if the browser for whatever reason is unable to draw the thumbnail with the new method, in which case it will fall back to the previous (Firefox-equivalent) method.
Other changes:
  • Completed consolidation of the source tree -- from this point forward, there won't be separate source trees for different architectures anymore.
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