Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Pale Moon Version 26 4 0 Released with Security Updates
Pale Moon Version 26 4 0 Released with Security Updates

Details from the Release Notes:
Security fixes:
- (CVE-2016-5251)Potential URL spoofing in the address bar.
- (CVE-2016-0718) Context-dependent crash in expat 2.1.0.
- (CVE-2016-5266) Outgoing dataTransfer items are not properly filtered.
- Fixed potentially exploitable crash in the array splice implementation.
- Fixed potentially exploitable crash caused by badly formatted ICO files.
- (CVE-2016-5254) Heap-use-after-free in nsXULPopupManager::KeyDown
- Removed Google Search as a bundled search provider. If desired, you can manually install it (or other search engines) after the update by following the steps in the Manage Search Engines topic.
- Fixed the URL API to allow "stringification" of the object per specification. This should make a number of websites happy.
- Added the ES6 string .includes() function in addition to the pre-existing .contains() function for checking if a string contains another string. The .contains() function is retained for compatibility with web and extension scripts that adhere to the ES6 pre-release specification up to and including RC3.
- Fixed the calculation of standalone SVG embeds width and height, which should solve some reported issues with html5 graphs being displayed incorrectly.
- Linux: improved memory allocation.
- Updated the graphite font library to 1.3.9.
- Added a blocking rule for F-Secures 64-bit deepguard library to prevent crashes.
- Updated the SQLite library to 3.13.0.
- Download= properties of links are now honored from the context menu "Save" option.
- Fixed a crash in the XSS filter.
- Fixed a crash in the DOM error module.
- Worked around a crash on Linux
- Linux: Improved optimization and GCC6 compatibility (Note: compiling with GCC 6 is still not recommended and it may or may not work, depending on your environment)
- Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Server 2008 or later
- A processor with SSE2 support
- 256 MB of free RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
- At least 150 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space
- 32x: Download the Pale Moon browser
- 64x: Pale Moon - x64 builds
- PM4XP (Pale Moon for XP) has reached end of support and has been replaced with Pale Moon for Atom.
- Linux version: Available from http://www.palemoon.org/contributed-builds.shtml
Update
To get the update now, select "Help" from the Pale Moon menu at the upper left of the browser window. Select About Pale Moon > Check for Updates.
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