Pale Moon 24.1.2 released

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Pale Moon 24.1.2 released

Unread post by Moonchild » 2013-11-19, 11:37

Pale Moon 24.1.2 has been released!

This version implements the following changes:
  • Update of the NSPR library to 4.10.2 RTM.
  • Update of the Security library (NSS) to 3.15.3 (alternative branch) to pick up a number of fixes for https connections.
  • Fix (finally) of the menu list of tabs when browser.allTabs.previews is set to false. It would stick the top entry, not properly highlight the selected tab, and would generally be unpleasant and stubborn when tabs were moved or closed. This should all be corrected now.
  • Additional feature: Previously, tabs would immediately resize to fill the tab bar when you would close them. Mozilla changed this a (long) while back to cater to "rapidly closing multiple tabs without moving the mouse" and to resize you have to move the mouse out of the tab bar. A good number of Firefox/Pale Moon users don't like this behavior, but the fix to make this configurable was in the end rejected by the Mozilla UX team, so I opted for my own implementation in Pale Moon. New pref: browser.tabs.resize_immediately - set this preference to true to immediately resize other tabs when closing a tab.
    Many thanks to David for doing the required research in bug #667607 to implement this feature!
  • Rework of the multi-core routine and removal of OpenMP code and the related library (Microsoft's implementation is old, limited, and won't be updated/improved; in addition it prevented some compiler optimizations that could now be used again).
    Side note: Even though previous versions of Pale Moon might have still run on Windows XP SP2 even though SP3 is a minimum requirement, you will now get an error when trying to start the browser on SP2. Please update to Service Pack 3 (You should anyway, SP2 is not safe to run on)
  • The accessibility back-end for "Find as you type" has been disabled completely to prevent this setting from breaking websites with HTML5 input fields (not compatible with FAYT).
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