Pale Moon 24.6.2

 

Pale Moon is a custom-built and speed optimized Firefox browser. The Pale Moon project is the work of a single individual, using contributed Open Source code to create a full-featured, speed optimized browser based on the popular Firefox browser. Having seen the advantages on other systems (e.g. Linux) with regards to programs being compiled specifically for the capabilities of the machine it is installed on, it became obviously clear that Windows users were at a disadvantage: Mozilla only releases windows executables with maximum compatibility in mind, meaning that Firefox is made to run on as many different systems as possible, sacrificing efficiency and speed in the process to be compatible with, by current standards, absolutely ancient hardware. Mozilla does not provide optimized browser packages for Windows, meaning you may be losing speed and efficiency when you use your browser; and truth be told, most people use their browsers all the time!That needs to change, so, here is the Pale Moon project: Custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. Make sure to get the most speed and efficiency out of your browser !

Changes in Pale Moon 24.6.2:
A point release to address some further outstanding issues with the overhauled rendering engine.

Fixes/changes:

• Automate rendering back-end selection and use cairo as appropriate.
  This should fix start-up problems on all types of graphics cards regardless of vendor.
• Fix font subpixel rendering in menus when on cairo backend (D2D off)
• Cairo: Prevent falling back to padding when not strictly needed.
  Performance regression fix if D2D isn't used.
• Azure: Use correct device offsets.
• Prevent crashes due to the allocation of source surfaces to errored surfaces
  This prevents some miscellaneous browser crashes occurring with cairo on azure.