Pale Moon - оптимизированный вариант браузера Firefox

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Pale Moon - оптимизированный вариант браузера Firefox для Windows, работающий, по уверениям разработчиков, на 25% быстрее оригинального FF
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Разработчики из проекта Pale Moon («Бледная луна») представили собственный вариант браузера Firefox, оптимизированный для использования всех ресурсов операционных систем Windows, в том числе Windows 7. Оптимизация исполняемого кода при компиляции помогла сохранить полную совместимость с расширениями Firefox и обеспечила солидный выигрыш в скорости – около 25%, по результатам теста SunSpider.

Популярный открытый браузер Firefox имеет одно свойство, которое можно считать как преимуществом, так и недостатком. Дело в том, что браузер изначально создавался с расчетом на использование в самых разных операционных системах – это важно для создания унифицированной рабочей среды для пользователя. В то же время, ориентация на многоплатформенность не могла не сказаться на производительности – разработчикам явно пришлось пожертвовать оптимизацией под каждую конкретную платформу. Именно этим резервом и решили воспользоваться разработчики Pale Moon.

Вообще говоря, результаты сравнительных тестов не всегда отражают реальную производительность браузеров в повседневных задачах. Тем не менее, эксперты с сайта LifeHacker.com сообщили, что браузер Pale Moon действительно быстрее отображает веб-страницы большого размера со сложной версткой по сравнению со стандартным Firefox. Кроме того, если устанавливать браузер не в «портабельном» варианте, Pale Moon может автоматически использовать уже созданный пользовательский профиль Firefox, так что вы не потеряете свои настройки.

ключевые особенности

- основан полностью на исходниках Firefox
- оптимизирован для современных процессоров
- использует меньше оперативной памяти, чем FF
- высокая скорость отрисовки страниц и обработки скриптов
- поддерживает SVG и Canvas, загружаемые шрифты, WOFF и некоторые HTML5
- поддерживает расширений, тем и "персон" браузера Firefox
- возможен перенос профилей Firefox с помощью инструмента для миграции (скачивается отдельно)
- имеется официальный русификатор (скачивается отдельно).

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Pale Moon 5.0

изменения:

New release based on Firefox 5.0!
Of course a large number of bugfixes were applied as part of development on the Mozilla trunk, compared to 4.x

Changes/fixes:
Performance issues fixed on some systems
Instability problems fixed on some systems
Updated artwork for the new about box
Cosmetic changes: more occurrences of "palemoon" in the UI should now read "pale moon"
Zulu language added for the language packs

Desctop: Pale Moon 5.0 (10.88 MB) | Pale Moon x64 5.0 (11.36 MB)
Portable: Pale Moon 5.0 (15.76 MB) | Pale Moon x64 5.0 (16.40 MB)
Рус. язык: Version 5.0 (222.5 KB)

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Pale Moon 6.0

изменения:

New release based on Firefox 6.0!
Of course the necessary bugfixes and changes as part of the new code base, with a number of additional changes:
• Add-ons will no longer automatically update by default the moment they are checked and found to have a newer release, giving the user the choice to accept or reject the update, read release notes, etc.
• Update of the status bar add-on to v2.2, fixing compatibility issues and extending some configurability.
• Link right-click menu has "Open in new tab" on top now, like Firefox. If you are having trouble retraining yourself for this behavior, please download a menu editing Firefox add-on to customize your menus. This change was made based on user feedback.
• Added ak, ast, br, bs, en-ZA, gd, lg, mai, nso, and son language packs

Desctop: Pale Moon 6.0 (11.04 MB) | Pale Moon x64 6.0 (11.62 MB)
Portable: Pale Moon 6.0 (15.99 MB) | Pale Moon x64 6.0 (16.78 MB)
Рус. язык: Version 6.0 (225 KB)

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Pale Moon 6.0.2

изменения:

• Removed trust exceptions for certain certificates (bug 683449)
• Resolved an issue with gov.uk websites (bug 669792)
• Revoked permissions for the root certificate for DigiNotar in the built-in certificate store (bug 682927)
In addition, there has been some work done on the x64 build method to prepare for performance fixes in a future release.

Desctop: Pale Moon 6.0.2 (11.17 MB) | Pale Moon x64 6.0.2 (11.65 MB)
Portable: Pale Moon 6.0.2 (11.97 MB)
Рус. язык: Version 6.0 (225 KB)

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Pale Moon 7.0

изменения:

• Introduction of the Tab Groups (panorama) button in the user interface for easy access (Next to the All Tabs button)
• Several additional performance improvements on individual browser components
• A change of the Application Menu button color to blue shades instead of a "foxy orange"

Desctop: Pale Moon 7.0 (11.21 MB) | Pale Moon x64 7.0 (11.70 MB) | Web-Installer (800 KB)
Portable: Pale Moon 7.0 (12.75 MB)
Рус. язык: Version 7.0 (224 KB)

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Pale Moon 7.0.1

изменения:

his update fixes a very important speed regression issue for Pale Moon 7.0. It impacts mostly the page content layout engine and DOM handling, which will be on par again with what they should be for Pale Moon in this point release. Bug: 20111001-CCBug
Benchmarking scores will see a significant jump from 7.0 to 7.0.1 as a result, as well.
There are no other functional or UI changes for this release.

Desctop: Pale Moon 7.0.1 (11.17 MB) | Web-Installer (802 KB)
Portable: Pale Moon 7.0.1 (12.72 MB)
Рус. язык: Version 7.x (224 KB)

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Pale Moon 8.0

изменения:

A major update building on the Firefox 8.0 code base, with improvements that were planned for the (unreleased) version 7.0.2.

This version sees the following improvements in addition to those inherent to Firefox 8:
• Improved cache handling: this will make the browser handle system resources more efficiently on most systems.
• Improved networking: communication with web servers should be noticeably faster and smoother
• Fix for a rare image decoding bug (garbage, possible crashes)

Desctop: Pale Moon 8.0 (11.82 MB) | Pale Moon x64 8.0 (13.14 MB) | Web-Installer (802 KB)
Portable: Pale Moon 8.0 (13.67 MB)
Рус. язык: Version 8.x (227 KB)

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Pale Moon 3.6.28

изменения:

Changes:
▪ DNS prefetching is now disabled by default to prevent router hangups
Fixes:
▪ Fix for browsing history not being saved in certain situations (Bug #705610)

Desctop (8.00 MB) | Portable (11.45 MB)

Русский язык (187.5 KB) | Белорусский язык (181.1 KB) | Украинский язык (202.5 KB)

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Pale Moon 9.0.1

изменения:

Jan 09 2012
▪ Under the hood changes and improvements to the way memory is handled by the Javascript engine.
▪ WebGL has been changed to use ANGLE by default instead of using native OpenGL to give better performance on a number of systems that would otherwise suffer from high CPU usage and lower frame rates.
▪ Change in compiler: from this point on, Visual Studio 2010 will be used for all "next gen" builds.
▪ Build environment changed to cater to the ever-growing XUL dll size without having to compromize on what modules to optimize. (Prevent running into the 3GB address space limit)
▪ DNS prefetching disabled by default to prevent router hangups
▪ Changes to timings for UI script execution and content script execution to prevent unnecessary dialog popups about unresponsive scripts.
▪ Some image decoding tweaks.
▪ Eye candy: animated preferences dialog (resize when switching category).

Pale Moon (12.38 MB) | Pale Moon x64 (13.72 MB) | Web-Installer (802 KB)

Pale Moon Portable (14.32 MB) | Pale Moon Portable x64 (14.68 MB)

Русский язык (229 KB) | Белорусский язык (221 KB) | Украинский язык (251 KB)

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Pale Moon 9.1

Изменения:

24 jan 2012:
This update implements relevant fixes from Firefox 10 in terms of security and stability. Additional new functionality found in Firefox 10 has not been implemented.
In addition, the following fixes:
▪ Update to the status bar component to fix pop-up status and links, as well as a few other small issues.
▪ Update to the add-on compatibility assistant to no longer display the status bar core add-on as selectable
▪ Update to a few default settings based on usage metrics
▪ Removed some commercial search engines (e.g. Amazon) and added DuckDuckGo/SSL

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Pale Moon (12,47 Мб) | Pale Moon x64 (13,75 Мб)

Pale Moon Portable (14,44 Мб) | Pale Moon Portable x64 (14,27 Мб)

Русский язык (229 кб) | Другие языки

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Pale Moon 9.2

Изменения:

21 Feb 2012:
This update implements security fixes from Firefox up to 10.0.2 in terms of security and stability.

▪ Fix for a critical vulnerability in the libpng graphics library
▪ Update to the add-ons blocklist and its handling
▪ New 64-bit application icon (32-bit icon update in the next version)
▪ Minor updates to cache handling settings

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Инсталлятор: x86 (12,31 Мб) | x64 (13,62 Мб)

Портативная версия: x86 (14,25 Мб) | x64 (14,16 Мб)

Русский язык (229 кб) | Другие языки

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Pale Moon 11.0

Изменения:

23 марта 2012

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.

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.

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Инсталлятор: x86 (12,56 Мб) | x64 (14,04 Мб)

Портативная версия: x86 (15,18 Мб) | x64 (14,56 Мб)

Русский язык (239 кб) | Другие языки

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Pale Moon 11.0.1

Изменения:

26 марта 2012

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.

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Инсталлятор: x86 (12,67 Мб) | x64 (13,87 Мб)

Портативная версия: x86 (15,53 Мб) | x64 (14,40 Мб)

Русский язык (239 кб) | Другие языки

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Pale Moon 12.0

Изменения:

30 апреля 2012 г.

A new release built on the Firefox 12 code base. This is mostly a maintenance release.
Of special interest is that Pale Moon, unlike Mozilla Firefox in its version 12, does not move to a silent install method.

Fixes and changes in all versions:

• A number of security and stability fixes imported from Firefox 12
• Update to the status bar code and a finalization of the integration of this functionality
• Localization of the status bar preferences and messages into 3 additional common languages: German, French and Spanish. This will automatically follow your locale setting
• Update to the HTML5 media controls
• Some under-the-hood changes that will further improve performance of Pale Moon on some systems

Pale Moon Portable:

• An update to the launcher and script. More information on the Pale Moon Portable page. It is recommended for everyone using the portable to make a fresh install (with a copy over of your profile files if desired) and not use an in-place upgrade.
• A fix for backups not being properly created and stored

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Инсталлятор: x86 (12,64 Мб) | x64 (13,92 Мб)

Портативная версия: x86 (14,60 Мб) | x64 (14,43 Мб)

Русский язык (241 кб) | Другие языки

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Pale Moon 12.2

Изменения:

12.2

• Privacy issue: clear the QuickDial page when history is cleared
• Better, neutral background color for raw image viewing
• Smooth scrolling improved; also disabled smooth scrolling for page-by-page by default
• Smooth scrolling can now be configured/tuned in detail in Advanced Options
• Some changes to the build method for x64 for potentially better performance on some systems

12.1

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 tab is closed;
  • A selection for new tabs: Choose from a blank page, the Pale Moon start page or the Quickdial page.
• Some slight color has been re-introduced in the navigation elements to improve clarity of the UI.
• Disabled an image decoding library with hazardous code. This has no impact on the browser's image decoding capabilities or performance as alternative methods for decoding are used by default.
• Some changes to memory handling which potentially keep memory use better within bounds.
• A change to the build environment to improve stability of Javascript. Note that this is a trade-off and may result in a slight drop in synthetic benchmarking performance of the browser compared to the previous version of Pale Moon. The impact of this on overall real-world performance of the browser is negligible.

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Инсталлятор: x86 (12,72 Мб) | x64 (13,96 Мб)

Портативная версия: x86 (14,69 Мб) | x64 (14,47 Мб)

Русский язык (241 кб) | Другие языки