Software-update: Pale Moon 32.2.0

Versie 32.2 van Pale Moon is uitgekomen. Deze webbrowser is ooit begonnen als een fork van Mozilla Firefox. Door optimalisaties voor moderne hardware en het weglaten van Accessibility-features en Parental Controls presteerde hij toen een stuk beter. Ook was er een 64bit-versie beschikbaar, ruim voordat Mozilla deze zelf aanbood. Intern werkt het op Goanna, een van Mozilla's Gecko afgeleide browserengine. De browser is beschikbaar voor Windows en Linux, en als bèta ook voor macOS en FreeBSD.

Vanaf versie 30 identificeert de browser zich naar buiten toe weer als een Firefox-browser, wat het eenvoudiger moet maken om oudere browserextensies te gebruiken. De download van Pale Moon is alleen in het Engels; een apart Nederlands taalbestand is beschikbaar. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:

This is another important, major development update, continuing our rapid development efforts in the v32 milestone. With this version we should have restored web compatibility with the majority of reported problematic websites. If you were previously running into websites being problematic in Pale Moon, it may be a good idea to try them again with this release. Special thanks to Job Bautista, martok, dbsoft, FranklinDM and Travis for continuing their hard work making this a reality! This updates our UXP/Goanna platform version to 6.2.

Implemented dynamic module imports. See implementation notes.Implemented exporting of async functions in modules.Implemented JavaScript class fields. See implementation notes.Implemented logical assignment operators ||=, &&= and ??=.Implemented a solution for websites using the officially deprecated ambiguous window.event. This is disabled by default but can be enabled through about:config's dom.window.event.enabled preference. See implementation notes.Implemented self.structuredClone() (this may be very obscure to anyone except web developers. Apologies ;-) )Implemented Element.replaceChildren. Once again primarily a web developer note.Improved Shadow DOM :host matching.Implemented WebComponents' CSS ::slotted() and related functionality.Improved page caching in our memory allocator.Added support for FFmpeg 6.0, especially important for bleeding-edge Linux distros.Fixed a potential drawing deadlock for images, specifically SVG. This solves a number of hang-on-shutdown scenarios.Fixed various crashes related to WebComponents and our recent JavaScript work.Fixed various build-from-source issues on secondary target platforms.Fixed various small browser front-end scripting issues that could lead to errors or broken functionality.Fixed handling of async (arrow) functions declared inside constructors.Fixed various small JavaScript conformance issues.Fixed an issue where JavaScript (only in modules) would not properly create async wrappers.Updated the DOM Performance API to the current spec (User Timing L3).See implementation notes, especially if you intend to use this in web content for critical functionality.Updated keypress event handling to send keypress events on Ctrl+Enter.Updated internal JavaScript structures to make future porting easier, as well as improve JavaScript performance.Updated window handling and styling on Mac.Updated the Freetype lib to 2.13.0.Updated the Harfbuzz lib to 7.1.0.Updated our DNS lookup calls to use inet_ntoa() instead of the deprecated inet_ntop().Updated the Fetch API to use the global's base URL instead of the entry document's base URL for spec compliance.We no longer support the outmoded fontconfig on GTK systems.We no longer parse or return the body of known-empty responses from servers (content-length of 0, or in case of HEAD or CONNECT methods).Implemented scaled font caching on GTK, improving performance.Fixed a build issue when building for Linux on ARM64 on later distros.Split out more parts of the browser into separate .dll files on Windows to reduce compiler strain and an oversized xul.dllRemoved mozilla::AlignedStorage (code cleanup).Builds for FreeBSD now use xz for packaging instead of bzip2. By request, we now also offer GTK2 builds for FreeBSD.Merged the preference dom.getRootNode.enabled into the dom.webcomponents.enabled pref. See implementation notes.Fixed a potential DoS issue with JPEG decoding.Fixed a potential issue in Windows widget code that could lead to crashes.Disabled potentially hazardous external protocols on Windows.Added known-problematic .dlls to the internal blocklist.Security issues addressed: CVE-2023-32209, CVE-2023-32214 and several others that do not have a CVE designation.UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 4 fixed, 1 rejected, 27 not applicable.

JavaScript modules have various methods of being loaded into web page content. One of the later introduced methods is a function-style import() declaration, so-called "dynamic module imports" that has been used by various web frameworks, causing issues for Pale Moon resulting in blank pages in most cases (since the websites would not actually use document structure HTML, but rather JavaScript to create content, all from imported modules). This has been a major web compatibility issue lately and we're pleased to announce that this complex bit of machinery has been implemented.JavaScript's language specification is continuing to be watered down from a prototyping language towards a more "C-like" hybrid. As part of that effort, JavaScript classes were introduced in ECMAScript 6, and now further expanded in ES2022 with class fields and private class fields/methods, as well as statics. We should have a complete implementation of this now, which constitutes the more important parts of the ES2022 language update.The use of the outdated Microsoft Internet Explorer global window.event has been a pervasive web compatibility issue for us, especially since it was officially deprecated and we never implemented this ambiguous and unreliable property that is highly-context sensitive. Websites should use the event as passed into the event handler to get the event source instead. However, since neither Chrome nor Firefox have dropped this and seem to be playing a game Source: Tweakers.net