Pale Moon is a Firefox based web browser for Linux Ubuntu. Install Pale Moon 25.8.0 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives. It is claimed to be up to 25% faster then the original. Palemoon browser supports the official Firefox extensions, but does not support all of the Firefox features.
Pale Moon: Release notes (25.8.0 (2015-11-17)
This is a security, stability and usability update. It has been released with the following changes:
Fixes/changes:
- Updated LibVPX to 1.4.x to be able to play more kinds of VP9-encoded videos.
- Updated the JPEG decoder library to 1.4.0.
- Fixed and cleaned up XPCOM timer thread code to avoid intermittent issues with events not firing (especially after stand-by).
- Updated overrides to work around issues with Facebook and Netflix.
- Fixed an issue where too-old system-supplied NSPR and/or NSS libraries would be accepted for use.
Security fixes:
- Updated the libpng library to 1.5.24 to address critical security issues CVE-2015-7981 and CVE-2015-8126
- Updated the NSPR library to 4.10.10 to address several security issues.
- Updated the NSS library to 3.19.4 to address several security issues.
- Fixed a memory safety hazard in SVG path code (CVE-2015-7199).
- Fixed an issue with IP address parsing potentially allowing an attacker to bypass the Same Origin Policy (CVE-2015-7188).
- Fixed an Add-on SDK (Jetpack) issue that would allow scripts to be executed despite being forbidden (CVE-2015-7187).
- Fixed a crash due to a buffer underflow in libjar (CVE-2015-7194).
- Fixed an issue for Android full screen that would potentially allow address spoofing (CVE-2015-7185).
- Added size checks in canvas manipulations to avoid potential image encoding vulnerabilities like CVE-2015-7189. DiD
- Fixed potential information disclosure vulnerabilities through the NTLM authentication mechanism. Insecure NTLM v1 is now disabled by default, and the workstation name is set to WORKSTATION by default (configurable with a preference for environments where identification of workstations is done by actual reported machine name). This avoids issues like CVE-2015-4515.
- Fixed a potentially vulnerable crash from a spinning event loop during resize painting. DiD
- Fixed several Javascript-based memory safety hazards. DiD
DiD This means that the fix is “Defense-in-Depth”
Install Pale Moon 25.8.0 on Ubuntu
Pale Moon 25.8.0 is the latest version available of the PaleMoon web browser. Pale Moon 25.8.0 can be installed on Linux Ubuntu Systems. Run the following commands to install Pale Moon 25.8.0 on Ubuntu 15.01, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives:
Install Pale Moon on 32 Bit Linux Systems
Run the following commands to install Pale Moon on 32 bit Linux Ubuntu systems:
$ wget http://linux.palemoon.org/files/25.8.0/palemoon-25.8.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf palemoon*.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/palemoon*
$ sudo mv palemoon /opt/palemoon
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon
Install Pale Moon on 64 Bit Linux Systems
Run the following commands to install Pale Moon on 64 bit Linux Ubuntu systems:
$ wget linux.palemoon.org/files/25.8.0/palemoon-25.8.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjvf palemoon*.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/palemoon*
$ sudo mv palemoon /opt/palemoon
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon
Once installed, you can open / start the Pale Moon browser from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal. Type palemoon in terminal and press enter.
Also note that you can import all your Firefox profile (bookmarks, history, extensions, etc) on Pale Moon browser. To do so run the following command:
$ cp -R ~/.mozilla/firefox/* ~/.moonchild\ productions/pale\ moon/