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    Pale Moon 12.1

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    Mozilla Public License / $0
    12.6 MB / Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / Vista64 / 7 / 7 x64
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    Softpedia Editor's Review for Pale Moon

    EDITOR'S RATING:

    Custom-built and speed optimized Firefox browser

    Written by Sorin Cirneala on December 22nd, 2011

    Pale Moon is actually a custom build of Mozilla’s Firefox, optimized to reach faster browsing . As such, the interface and the set of options should be familiar to many users.

    If you previously used Firefox and you want to migrate your bookmarks, passwords and browsing history, the program provides a migration tool capable to transfer all the settings.

    Furthermore, Pale Moon lets you import the same configuration settings you’re used to in Firefox. This option is available at the first run of the application, as it’ll prompt you to import the data.

    By comparison to the original package, this browser comes with an optimized source code and with some disabled features in order to increase speed. It is designed for fast browsing, so it sacrifices some functions such as the accessibility features. This can make the program unsuitable for some users but does not affect the way pages are displayed and speeds up the response for the vast majority.

    Pale Moon brings you a slightly changed interface since it enables the bookmarks toolbar by default and brings back the status bar that displays the add-ons and the progress indicators. The application is compatible with all Firefox extensions, themes and personas so your browsing experience should not be impaired in any way.

    One of the extra features is the “List all tabs” button that displays a window with a preview of each tab, big enough to be able to read the content and to organize the tabs better. Overall the browser offers a good quality and speedy browsing experience with a few extra features that you might find useful.

    Pale Moon description

    Here are some key features of "Pale Moon":

    · Highly optimized for current processors
    · 100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
    · Uses less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
    · Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
    · Support for SVG and Canvas

    Requirements:

    · P4 or A64 or later CPU
    · 64MB RAM
    · 50 MB HDD space

    What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

    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 ta...

     Softpedia guarantees that Pale Moon 12.1 is 100% FREE, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. [read more >]


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    optimize browser | optimize Firefox | tabbed browser | browser | browse | viewer



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