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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Palemoon 15.1 Portable

Pale Moon Portable is a speed-optimized version of Firefox exclusively for modern chipsets, boasting an average 25% speed increase on many operations. The program requires one of the following processors:

Pentium IV, M, or D
Celeron-M or D
AMD Opteron / Athlon64 / Sempron
Any multi-core processor

As a general rule, most computers built after 2005 should work, and Intel-based systems after 2002. See Pale Moon - technical for more information. Unlike Firefox, there is no support for accessibility features or parental controls.

What's new:

This is a major update to the new v15.0 release, to address a fairly large number of issues with the initial version.

Important note:

From this release onwards, the system requirements for your operating system have changed: If you are still running Windows XP, you are required to have Service Pack 3 installed on it, or the browser will not start.

Bugfixes:

Restore Windows XP Professional x64 compatibility in the installer.
Fix the mouse wheel smooth scrolling preferences in the preferences dialog box (did not work in v15.0)
Prevent memory inflation on some integrated graphics drivers in canvas games
Fix for private browsing mode (Firefox 15.0.1 top fix)
Fix for Javascript stability issues on 32-bit versions

Regression fixes:

Restore the favicon in the URL bar. (Behavior change: new logic)
Fix for top level images with transparency (white background)
Remove noise from top level image background
Undo the redesign of the Safe Mode dialog box
Restore Alt-Click save dialog box
Restore proper identity panel for domain-verified sites (blue panel)
Restore support for the browser.identity.ssl_domain_display setting
Restore address bar autofill preference to its desired default state (no autofill)