Pale Moon 11 Released!

[Dermot7]

A new major release building on the Firefox 11.0 code base. This sees many, many bugfixes and a good number of performance improvements that would be too extensive to list in detail.

In summary
All versions:

Integration of the Status Bar functionality. You can now access the status bar configuration directly from the Tools or Options menu, and it is no longer a separate add-on[note]
Implementation of the SPDY protocol to improve load times on websites that support it.
Improvements to the rendering engine, and specific improvements to the hardware acceleration of font rendering and WebGL
Implementation of more advanced HTML5 (including IndexedDB improvements and support for more HTML5 elements) and CSS features (including CSS 3D transforms)
Add-on compatibility: add-ons now default to being compatible
Cosmetic updates to the Pale Moon icon and some included artwork
The (limited feature) web developer tools as added to Firefox 11.0 have mostly been disabled since they are not intended to be present in future builds of Pale Moon. Web developers are encouraged to make their own choices about which development tools they wish to use at the Mozilla Add-ons repository (Web development section)

Pale Moon Portable:

The automatic backup method has been simplified and the resulting backups will take (a lot) less space. Bookmarks and passwords are backed up, but history no longer gets backed up which saves many MB on your stick or other portable medium.
Additional compression further reduces space requirements for the 32-bit portable.

http://www.palemoon.org/

[d0t]

Interesting. Can any1 tell me if it's really lighter than FF?

[Hungry Man]

Back when I used it it was quite a bit lighter.

[d0t]

Ty Hungry Man. Downloadin it to try!

[xxJackxx]

Originally Posted by Hungry Man

Back when I used it it was quite a bit lighter.

I wish I could say the same. It probably all depends on what else you have loaded. Also some of the binary add-ons like Norton toolbars and Kaspersky toolbars don't work since it is not actually Firefox. I want to like it but in the end it was just less troublesome for me to stick with Firefox.

[Hungry Man]

I used it way back before FF 4.0 and there were significant differences. Not sure if it's still the same.

[Dermot7]

I'm finding it to be about 10% lighter than Firefox 11.0, in the same scenario- i.e. same tabs, extensions, from what I've seen so far. But I've just looked at this briefly, and haven't done any extensive testing to establish for sure, and it definitely feels faster/snappier for me...but to what extent?
Maybe/hopefully one of our knowledgable members may test this to establish definitively?

edit: don't use any toolbars, but doubt if Norton toolbar works. Norton's cloud kept blocking Pale Moon a while back: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showp...16&postcount=1

Now, if only I could get Norton Toobar add-on to work with Pale Moon.

March 20th (just before PM 11 release): http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic....f797f663eb710e

[Dermot7]

Pale Moon 11.0.1 released:

A small maintenance release to address a few annoyances in the original new release of v11.0:

Tone down the rather too aggressive network settings that were introduced in Firefox 11:
1.Maximum concurrent connections opened by Pale Moon lowered to 48 (was 256) to make sure it doesn't easily saturate the networking layer of Windows, to prevent residential NAT gateways from being overloaded and to lower strain on wireless networks
2.Maximum concurrent connections to a single server lowered to 6 (was 15). In tandem with pipelining this is still plenty, and it actually promotes the proper intended use of pipelining
Fix the installer to properly check for the minimum required operating system version: Windows XP for both x86 and x64 versions
Switch off OpenGL as preferred engine for WebGL again to fix compatibility problems
Switch off DirectWrite font rendering again to fix compatibility issues with certain graphics cards
Properly implement the removal/blocking of status bar add-ons when upgrading/installing


In addition, Pale Moon 11 will:

Save open session information less often (once a minute)
No longer store form data and other entered information in the browser session store when pages are viewed over SSL, to increase security - the data entered in secure pages is no longer committed to disk.