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Nanobot Registered Member

Basilisk just removed the sandboxing code from its source code
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/8mankj/basilisk_just_removed_the_sandboxing_code_from/

Nanobot, May 27, 2018

#51
bellgamin Registered Member

Sampei Nihira said: ↑

Build for XP
It is excellent. ... ...
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But their Requirements page says it does NOT support XP. See at...
https://www.basilisk-browser.org/requirements.shtml

bellgamin, May 27, 2018

#52
Sampei Nihira Registered Member

bellgamin said: ↑

But their Requirements page says it does NOT support XP. See at...
https://www.basilisk-browser.org/requirements.shtml

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You need to install one special fork by Roytam1:

New build of basilisk/UXP for XP!

https://msfn.org/board/topic/177125-my-build-of-new-moon-temp-name-aka-pale-moon-for-xp/?page=56

You need to unzip the 7z in your programs folder.
Updates are weekly.
The new 7z file must be decompressed in the same folder.
Your personalizations are maintained.

Last edited: May 28, 2018

Sampei Nihira, May 28, 2018

#53
bellgamin Registered Member

Thanks sensei! I shall give it a try in a fortnight -- I'm away from my XP for a while.

bellgamin, May 29, 2018

#54
Sampei Nihira Registered Member

Thank you for your honor.
But I'm not a "Sensei", just a simple fisherman.
Besides you were born before me, I am only 54 years old.
See you soon my friend.

Sampei Nihira, May 29, 2018

#55
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2018.06.01 (June 01, 2018)
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Release Notes

v2018.06.01 Published 2018-06-01
This is a development and security release.

Updated our strings for soft-blocked items so people will cry less when we do our job and warn about known-problematic add-ons.

Fixed a regression in site-specific user-agent overrides that would prevent proper application on subdomains.

Improved the reader view API.

Removed more dead code from our tree (crashreporter components, gonk).

Removed DMD code.

Removed jprof profiler code.

Removed the SPS profiler.

Slimmed down IPC (ongoing).

Removed the Social API code.

Fixed some media back-end crashes and instabilities.

Updated the fetch API to be more web-compatible.

Limited maximum accepted image sizes for PNG images to prevent abuse/browser DoS.

Blocking of top-level data: navigations is now enabled by default.

Fixed security issues: CVE-2017-0381, CVE-2018-5174, CVE-2018-5155, CVE-2018-5173, CVE-2018-5177, CVE-2018-5159, CVE-2018-5167, CVE-2018-5154 and CVE-2018-5178.

Fixed a number of stability and memory safety hazards that do not have CVE numbers.

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guest, Jun 1, 2018

#56
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Basilisk Browser v2018.07.18 (July 18, 2018)
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v2018.07.18 Published 2018-07-18
This is a development and security release. We're only highlighting the most pertinent changes this time, since there have been over 450 of them.

Fixed an issue where windows would not be restored to their proper place if using custom device pixel ratios.

Removed the whole UITour system.

Removed the use of Disconnect if SafeBrowsing isn't built.

Updated the Readability/Reader View components.

Updated Cookie gating to be more strict.

Updated NSPR/NSS and enabled the use of TLS 1.3 by default.

Reinstated string.prototype.contains for compatibility (alias for .includes).

Updated kiss-fft to v1.4.0 (fork).

Fixed a serious memory leak in the WebP image decoder.

Fixed compatibility issues with Youtube Live, .

Improved legibility of fonts at certain scale levels on Windows.

Fixed Firefox-inherited SSL status ambiguity. SSLStatus.CipherName now actually displays the name. The full suite is still available in the (new) property CipherSuite.

Fixed some incorrect CSP handling.

Prohibited web access to the moz-icon:// scheme to solve privacy issues with it.

Fixed crash hazards in the editor.

Removed SSL error reporting telemetry.

Updated libwebp image decoder library to 1.0.0 + sec fixes.

Made it possible for UXP applications to run within a chrooted environment (provided it's compiled against glibc)

Ported several controlling preferences from Pale Moon (prompts.tab_modal.focusSwitch, browser.cache.backend, etc.)

Fixed security issues: CVE-2018-12363, CVE-2018-12366, CVE-2018-12364, CVE-2018-12359, CVE-2018-12367, and CVE-2018-12360.

Fixed a number of security, stability and memory safety hazards that did not have CVE numbers at the time of implementation.

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guest, Jul 18, 2018

#57
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2018.09.05 (September 05, 2018)
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Release Notes

v2018.09.05 Published 2018-09-05
This is a development release.

Added new DataTransfer constructor (spec compliance).

Aligned CSS layout flex grid with latest spec.

Made the MP4 reader less sensitive to corrupt data.

Improved media handling (ongoing).

Updated NSPR/NSS and enabled the use of latest draft TLS 1.3.

Changed the way network/cert errors are handled and displayed.

Fixed an ANGLE rendering issue (WebGL2 crash fix).

Added support for sbgp and sgpd boxes in EME.

Fixed "sticky" menus in High Contrast themes.

Updated zlib to 1.2.11.

Enabled Direct3D9 accelerated layers as a fallback if Direct3D11 can't be used.

Tuned the network stack for efficiency.

Fixed a number of performance issues with the browser.

Improved Mac OS X theming (unreleased).

Improved compatibility with GCC 8.

Reinstated RC4 and 3DES as weak cyphers as an option to enable use in non-standard environments (not enabled for the web by default).

Removed most telemetry calling code from C++ and the JS TelemetryStopwatch. This prevents most data gathering and improves performance.

Added an option (browser.newtabpage.add_to_session_history) to decide whether to store "about:newtab" in the session history for workflows of people wanting to use the back button to return to the QuickDial page.

Added an option (ui.menu.allow_content_scroll) to override the OS convention to prevent scrolling of content when contextual menus are open.

Added a horizontal scroll action option for mouse wheel.

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guest, Sep 5, 2018

#58
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2018.09.27 (September 28, 2018)
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Release Notes

v2018.09.27 Published 2018-09-28
This is a development and security release.

Added support for local-ref URLs in SVG USE elements.

Reinstated part of the searchplugin API that was removed by Mozilla, improving compatibility with search-engine modifying extensions.

Improved compiler compatibility with GCC 8.

Ported all applicable security patches from Gecko/62.

Fixed wrong SVG sizes with non-integer values for viewBox width/height.

Fixed a performance regression when many workers are in use simultaneously.

Improved browser session restore speed by skipping unnecessary notifications.

Fixed a crash with http authentication.

Fixed a performance issue caused by rapid-fire timers due to value overflow.

Fixed an issue with launching executable files not working.

Fixed an issue where sites allowed to store offline data could not be removed from the permission list.

Fixed an issue with common dialog boxes having incorrect sizes for their content.

Fixed a regression: ICC v4 color profiles would not be honored.

Remove the blocking of binary components in extensions.

Added a preference to enable (experimental!) asynchronous panning and zooming on desktop.

Fixed a potential crash when using SOCKS.

Fixed a potential privacy issue in non-standard environments. (CVE-2017-7797)

Fixed a memory leak when using SHA256 crypto.

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guest, Sep 28, 2018

#59
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2018.11.04 (November 04, 2018)
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Release Notes

v2018.11.04 Published 2018-11-04
This is a development and security release.

Removed more telemetry code from the platform.

Updated libnestegg from upstream.

Updated ffvpx library from upstream.

Web dev: Make all arguments to init*Event() optional except the first.

Ported all applicable security fixes from Gecko/63 and intermediate point releases.

Fixed an issue in session storage scripting that might prematurely throw an error and interrupt session restore.

Resolved an issue with long menus not scrolling if a submenu was open.

Cleaned up and updated some installer code.

Made caret width normal/thick behind CJK char configurable.

Fixed an issue with table border scaling at various zoom levels.

Updated handling of multimedia (on-going).

Fixed a corner case behavioral issue when an Outlook-sourced mail message is dropped to the browser.

Removed the unfinished and disabled in-browser translation code.

Updated the Reader View components.

Added experimental AV1 support for WebM videos (disabled by default).
Note: This is limited to WebM videos only at the moment, so it will not yet work on MP4 videos or MSE streaming (e.g. YouTube).

Fixed an issue with CSS grid element sizing.

Updated sidebar conext menu behavior to be more in line with other browsers.

Fixed an issue where a separate content process could be launched despite e10s being disabled.

Disabled the reporting of CSS errors to the console by default to improve general performance.

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guest, Nov 4, 2018

#60
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2018.11.07 (November 07, 2018)
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Release Notes

v2018.11.07 Published 2018-11-07
This is a bugfix release.

Fixed an issue that prevented the browser from starting properly on some systems after the most recent update.

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guest, Nov 7, 2018

#61
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2018.12.18 (December 18, 2018)
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Release Notes

v2018.12.18 Published 2018-12-18
This is a development and security release.

Added a preference (network.http.upgrade-insecure-requests) to allow disabling requests for opportunistic encryption.

Removed more telemetry code from the platform.

Added experimental support for the AV1 video codec for MP4 containers (disabled by default).

Cleaned up some media handling code, removing obsolete components for older target platforms.

Ported all applicable security fixes from Gecko/64. Most of these fixes were merely defense-in-depth.

Fixed a crash when using http pipelining over some broken proxies.

Enhanced the WebP decoder to properly handle animated lossy and lossless WebP.

Removed VR hardware support (both display and input types) from the platform.

Updated the GMP update service URL to improve compatibility with DRM-encumbered media.

Removed support for Firefox Accounts and changed the Sync client to work with Sync 1.1 (Weave).
The default server for using Sync is now the Pale Moon Sync server.
Please see this announcement on the forum for more details.

Updated NSPR to 4.20.

Updated NSS to 3.41, finalizing our platform support for TLS 1.3.

Fixed a spec compliance issue with the location.protocol setter.

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guest, Dec 18, 2018

#62
Nanobot Registered Member

Basilisk's experimental WebExtension support will be dropped

Nanobot, Jan 21, 2019

#63
Beyonder Registered Member

Nanobot said: ↑

Basilisk's experimental WebExtension support will be dropped
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Hehe the one thing that seemed appealing about Basilisk is now gone.

Beyonder, Jan 21, 2019

#64
Sampei Nihira Registered Member

After this announcement why use Basilisk?
Better to use Pale Moon.

For Tobin Pale Moon it is safer than Basilisk:

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21079

Sampei Nihira, Jan 21, 2019

#65
Dermot7 Registered Member

Basilisk browser drops WebExtension support - gHacks Tech News

Dermot7, Jan 21, 2019

#66
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2019.02.11 (February 11, 2019)
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Release Notes

v2019.02.11 Published 2019-02-11
This is a development and security release.

Removed experimental WebExtension support from the browser.
Please check your add-ons; you may need to find alternatives for extensions that are no longer supported.
For background to this change, please see the following forum announcement.

Removed more telemetry code from the platform.

Finalized spec compliance of the IntersectionObserver API, and enabled it by default.
Related this, also fixed a number of browser crashes.

Switched to the new ffmpeg decode API to avoid dropping of frames.

Removed Mozilla-proprietary AudioContext constructor, improving spec compliance of WebAudio.

Aligned Element.ScrollIntoView() with the spec.

Fixed a buffering issue in the WebP decoder that caused intermittent browser crashes.

Changed the Add-on Manager to the same one used by Pale Moon, unifying add-on handling.
Note: Some extensions that modify/style the Add-on Manager will have to be updated to work with Basilisk 2019 versions as a result.

Improved resource-efficiency for internal stopwatch timers.

Improved handling of incorrectly-encoded CTTS in media files, resolving some playback issues of videos.

Updated SQLite lib to 3.26.

Improved the Cycle Collector and Garbage Collector.

Set the Incremental Garbage Collection time slice to 20 ms for more efficient JavaScript memory handling (regression fix).

Improved fullscreen navigation bar handling in the situation it has focus when switching to full screen.

Aligned instanceof with the final ES6 spec.

Fixed a potential use-after-free in IndexedDB code. (DiD)

Improved proxy handling to avoid localhost getting proxied. (CVE-2018-18506)

Fixed several potentially-exploitable memory safety hazards and crashes. (DiD)

Improved Windows DIB clipboard data handling.

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guest, Feb 11, 2019

#67
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2019.03.08 (March 8, 2019)
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Release Notes

v2019.03.08 Published 2019-03-08
This is a development and security release.

Changed location to allow an empty string set on search to clear URL parameters.

Removed WebExtension support from the platform.

Implemented the "origin-clean" algorithm for ImageBitmap.

Switched to using C++11 thread-safe statics in the entire application.

Fixed several Skia security vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-18356, CVE-2018-18335 and CVE-2019-5785).

Fixed a crash due to frames in some uncommon situations.

Aligned textarea placeholder strings with the spec (preserve line breaks).

Removed the Windows maintenance service code.

Improved http basic auth DOS protection heuristics.

Fixed arrows on some toolkit controls.

Added a Netflix site-specific override to fix Silverlight playback.

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guest, Mar 8, 2019

#68
Brummelchen Registered Member

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0.1/releasenotes/

Fixed several Skia security vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-18356, CVE-2018-18335 and CVE-2019-5785).
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they left Basilisk users close to a month unpatched... nice

Brummelchen, Mar 9, 2019

#69
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2019.03.27 (March 27, 2019)
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Release Notes

v2019.03.27 Published 2019-03-27
This is a development and security release.

Added several site-specific overrides for web compatibility.

Aligned http "Accept:" headers with the fetch spec, with the exception of image requests to continue allowing content negotiation.

Fixed potential denial-of-service issues involving FTP (loading of subresources and spamming errors).

Aligned URLSearchParams with the spec.

Fixed a corner case for flexbox layouts, improving rendering of some websites.

Fixed Widevine compatibility issues.

Fixed security issues: CVE-2019-9791, CVE-2019-9792, CVE-2019-9796, CVE-2019-9801, CVE-2019-9793, CVE-2019-9794, CVE-2019-9808, CVE-2019-9790, CVE-2019-9797, CVE-2019-9804 and ZDI-CAN-8368.

Fixed several memory safety hazards and crashes.

Windows binaries are now code-signed again (including the setup program for the installer).

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guest, Mar 27, 2019

#70
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2019.06.08 (June 8, 2019)
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Release Notes

v2019.06.08 Published 2019-06-08
This is a development, bugfix and security release. Please note that Google Widevine DRM might currently not work in new installations due to Google's licensing model.

Removed unused code: contextual identity, crash reporter leftovers, SecurityUI telemetry, "enhanced" new tab tiles.

Updated the installer and internal updater.

Removed all Firefox Accounts code and replaced the Sync client for compatibility.

Implemented JavaScript parser improvements and the TC39 toString() revision proposal for web compatibility.

Improved handling of url() tokens in CSS to better handle incorrect syntax.

Updated the embedded emoji font for broader emoji coverage.

Fixed print failure for some web pages.

Fixed Linux XRender performance issues over remote connections (e.g. X2Go).

Improved JavaScript engine performance: dead compartment collection,

Fixed an address bar focus issue in Private Browsing mode.

Improved rendering performance for certain websites (with complex event regions).

Implemented several ECMAScript 2019 features (String trimStart/trimEnd, Array flat/flatMap, Symbol description)

Fixed security issues: CVE-2019-7317, CVE-2019-11701, CVE-2019-11698, CVE-2019-9817 (DiD), CVE-2019-11700, CVE-2019-11696 and CVE-2019-11693.

Fixed several memory safety hazards and crashes.

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guest, Jun 8, 2019

#71
bellgamin Registered Member

I like this browser. Very friendly interface. Speedy. Light. Frequent updates.

bellgamin, Jul 23, 2019

#72
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2019.09.03 (September 3, 2019)
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Release Notes

v2019.09.03 Published 2019-09-03
This is a development, bugfix and security release. Please note that Google Widevine DRM might currently not work in new installations due to Google's licensing model.

Implemented JavaScript parser improvements and several TC39 spec revisions for web compatibility.

Improved performance of the JavaScript engine.

Added support for gzip-compressed SVG-in-Opentype fonts.

Updated internationalization code to support updated time zones and the Japanese Reiwa era.

Updated NSS to a custom version to have better encryption strength for master passwords.

Added several performance improvements to DOM, the rendering engine and the parser.

Improved general security of access to FTP-sourced resources

Changed the way file access is handled from scripts to prevent cross-file access.

Fixed SVG alignment issues causing blurry display of SVGs.

Added support for Matroska media containers and AAC audio.

Fixed security issues: CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11717, CVE-2019-11714 (DiD), CVE-2019-11729 (DiD), CVE-2019-11727 (DiD), CVE-2019-11730 (DiD), CVE-2019-11713 (DiD) and several networking and memory-safety hazards that do not have CVE numbers.

Fixed several memory safety hazards and crashes.

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guest, Sep 3, 2019

#73
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2019.09.12 (September 12, 2019)
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v2019.09.12 Published 2019-09-12
This is a security and bugfix update.

Fixed an issue where saving a webpage to disk would sometimes drop tags from the document.

Fixed an issue with click-to-play plugin content throwing up a blank notification.

Fixed an issue in the renderer where region intersections would sometimes return the wrong result.
This fixes a regression caused by the fix for CVE-2016-5252.

Fixed security issues: CVE-2019-11744, CVE-2019-11752, CVE-2019-11737, CVE-2019-11746, CVE-2019-11750, CVE-2019-11747 and CVE-2019-11738.

Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 7 fixed, 1 DiD, 1 already covered, 22 not applicable.

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guest, Sep 12, 2019

#74
guest Guest
Basilisk Browser v2019.10.31 (October 31, 2019)
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Release Notes

v2019.10.31 Published 2019-10-31
This is a security and bugfix update.

Updated timezone data for internationalization functions.

Fixed the option to use hardware acceleration over RDP for Windows 8.1 and 10.

Fixed an issue with inner window navigation potentially leaking.

Fixed a startup crash caused by Qihoo 360 Safeguard/360 Total Security.

Ported some expat parser fixes from upstream.

Ported several NSS upstream fixes to our build.

Aligned handling of U+0000 in the html5 parser with expectations.

Added size checks to WebGL data buffering.

Fixed build issues with newer glibc versions.

Fixed build issues for ARM targets.

Worked around a gcc9 compiler issue that would prevent building with it.

Security issues fixed: CVE-2019-15903, CVE-2019-11757, CVE-2019-11763 and several potentially exploitable crashes and memory safety hazards that don't have a CVE number.

Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 6 fixed, 6 DiD, 1 rejected, 24 not applicable.

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guest, Oct 31, 2019

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