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Basilisk Browser 2018.12.18 (64-bit)

- 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


Basilisk Browser 2018.11.07 (64-bit)
- Fixed an issue that prevented the browser from starting properly on some systems after the most recent update


Basilisk Browser 2018.11.04 (64-bit)
- 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


Basilisk Browser 2018.09.27 (64-bit)
- 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
- ixed an issue where sites allowed to store offline data could not be Fremoved 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
- Fixed a memory leak when using SHA256 crypto