Pale Moon v28.5.0 (2019-04-30)

https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

This is a major development and bugfix update.

Changes/fixes:

• Redesigned the about box.
• Added "Check for updates" menu entries to the AppMenu and classic menu (since the About box redesign no longer has application update in it).
• Restored the app.update.url.override pref for AUS testing/override.
• Added "Loop" control to html5 video.
• Fixed a crash with frames (e.g. when using Tile Tabs).
• Fixed an issue with textarea placeholders (spec compliance).
• Removed the Windows Maintenance Service one last time.
• Improved http basic auth DoS heuristics.
• Fixed an issue on big-endian machines (e.g. PPC64/linux).
• Removed e10s code from widgets.
• Preffed the various http "Accept" headers and aligned with the Fetch spec (except for image requests).
• Aligned URLSearchParams with the spec.
• Updated several site-specific UA overrides.
• Fixed "Yet Another special case of a flex frame being the absolute containing block"™
• Fixed border drawing when the tab bar is hidden.
• Pref-controlled and disabled the use of unboxed plain objects in JavaScript's JIT compiler.
• Improved handling of interrupted connections through proxies and pseudo-VPN extensions.
• Removed contextual identity.
• Updated the 7zip installer stub to a much more recent code version.
• Fixed an issue with applying percentages to 0 in layout sizes.
• Fixed an issue with calculating linear sums in JS JITed code.
• Added default value feature to get*Pref() preference functions.
• Fixed an issue that would occasionally overwrite the new tab custom URL.
• Updated the SQLite library to 3.27.2
• Killed the crashreporter toolkit files and exception handler hooks.
• Fixed an issue with a missing border on the tab bar when on the bottom.
• Fixed a crash with badly-formatted SVG files.
• Showed the robots to the exit after squatting in the browser for decades.
•   Implemented TC39 toString() revision proposal.
• Rearchitectured the JavaScript front-end parser to provide better and more logical parsing of JS code.
• Removed support code and leftovers for unsupported SunOS, AIX, BEOS, HPUX and OS/2 operating systems.
• Fixed a scrollbar arrow issue on OS X.
• Removed all Firefox Accounts code.
• Made the CSS parser more robust and aligned url() behavior with the CSS3 spec in case of bad input.
• Fixed an issue with blocklist updates not actually dynamically applying due to a wrong URL.
• Updated the embedded emoji font to the TweMoji v11.4.0 equivalent.
• Fixed an issue with async/deferred scripts preventing page loads from completing.

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