MX 17/18 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
Re: MX 17 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
I'll get to it. There's also my repo on the OBS that you could install from--it usually finishes all the Ubuntu and Debian packages in 30-60 minutes.
Re: MX 17 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
Thanks, I installed it (Debian 9 x64 version) through gdebi. Is this the same build that will show up in the MX repo?
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=22526Data breach post-mortem
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A malicious party gained access to the at the time Windows-based archive server)(archive.palemoon.org) which we've been renting from Frantech/BuyVM, and ran a script to selectively infect all archived Pale Moon .exe files stored on it (installers and portable self-extracting archives) with a variant of Win32/ClipBanker.DY (ESET designation). Running these infected executables will drop a trojan/backdoor on your system that would potentially allow further compromise to it.
The moment this was reported to me on A malicious party gained access to the at the time Windows-based archive server (archive.palemoon.org) which we've been renting from Frantech/BuyVM, and ran a script to selectively infect all archived Pale Moon .exe files stored on it (installers and portable self-extracting archives) with a variant of Win32/ClipBanker.DY (ESET designation). Running these infected executables will drop a trojan/backdoor on your system that would potentially allow further compromise to it.
The moment this was reported to me on 2019-07-09,
just windows, but symptom for security of palemoon servers?
they called him, the fish!
Re: MX 17 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
We're OK, because we get and build the source from Github, so avoid any contact with their servers altogether. The OBS builds also never had any contact with their server.
Re: MX 17 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
Re: MX 17 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
Pale Moon 28.6.1 is now in the main repo. All users should update.
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
Have updated to 28.6.1 and it works fine. Thanks.
Backup: Dell9010, MX-19_B2, Win7, 120 SSD, WD 232GIB HD, 4GB RAM
Primary :Homebrew64 bit Intel duo core 2 GB RAM, 120 GB Kingston SSD, Seagate1TB.
MX-18.2 64bit. Also MX17, Kubuntu14.04 & Puppy 6.3.
Primary :Homebrew64 bit Intel duo core 2 GB RAM, 120 GB Kingston SSD, Seagate1TB.
MX-18.2 64bit. Also MX17, Kubuntu14.04 & Puppy 6.3.
Re: MX 17/18 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
We now have updated to 28.7.1 in the main repository. All users are urged to update.
Fixed an issue where saving a webpage to disk would sometimes drop tags from the document.
Fixed an issue with click-to-play plugin content throwing up a blank notification.
Fixed an issue in the renderer where region intersections would sometimes return the wrong result.
This fixes a regression caused by the fix for CVE-2016-5252.
Fixed security issues: CVE-2019-11744, CVE-2019-11752, CVE-2019-11737, CVE-2019-11746, CVE-2019-11750, CVE-2019-11747 and CVE-2019-11738.
Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 7 fixed, 1 DiD, 1 already covered, 22 not applicable.
Re: MX 17/18 Repository: The Pale Moon Browser Thread
Beginning with version 28.6.0, Pale Moon browser began crashing frequently on MX.
The browser would crash and immediately the desktop also. It went all the way down to the login screen.
I had not seen any posts about Pale Moon crashes following the updates.
All of the PM updates remained fine with Mint 19.2 Cinnamon - never crashed.
I thought it might be a problem with that build, but the crashes continued after the next updates, including v28.7.1.
The crashes seemed to happen during page navigation, so I thought it might be the mouse going bad.
The same thing happened with keyboard only use.
I tried Safe Mode - no luck.
I tried a reinstall - no luck.
I tried remove and reinstall - no luck.
I tried complete removal with Synaptic and fresh install - no luck; even with no add-ons installed.
Finaly, I thought it might be the optional setting in MX Tweak -> Config Options that I had turned ON to remedy screen tearing.
Use Intel driver instaed of default "modsetting" driver
I deactivated that setting, did a restart and then a fresh install.
Then, no more crashes , but the screen tearing was back.
I reactivated the Intel option and did another restart.
Still no more crashes.
During the interim, I installed Waterfox and got it configured the way I like and there were no crashes.
So now I'm happy with Waterfox.
Since this turned out to be a hardware/driver compatibility issue with Pale Moon on MX 18.3, I think it's best to post an alert.
This could have other consequences.
The browser would crash and immediately the desktop also. It went all the way down to the login screen.
I had not seen any posts about Pale Moon crashes following the updates.
All of the PM updates remained fine with Mint 19.2 Cinnamon - never crashed.
I thought it might be a problem with that build, but the crashes continued after the next updates, including v28.7.1.
The crashes seemed to happen during page navigation, so I thought it might be the mouse going bad.
The same thing happened with keyboard only use.
I tried Safe Mode - no luck.
I tried a reinstall - no luck.
I tried remove and reinstall - no luck.
I tried complete removal with Synaptic and fresh install - no luck; even with no add-ons installed.
Finaly, I thought it might be the optional setting in MX Tweak -> Config Options that I had turned ON to remedy screen tearing.
Use Intel driver instaed of default "modsetting" driver
I deactivated that setting, did a restart and then a fresh install.
Then, no more crashes , but the screen tearing was back.
I reactivated the Intel option and did another restart.
Still no more crashes.
During the interim, I installed Waterfox and got it configured the way I like and there were no crashes.
So now I'm happy with Waterfox.
Since this turned out to be a hardware/driver compatibility issue with Pale Moon on MX 18.3, I think it's best to post an alert.
This could have other consequences.
MX 19/18.3 64 bit - Intel Core i5-8600K - ASRock H370M mobo - 8GB HyperX mem - Intel integrated graphics
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB; ADATA 240GB nvme; Western Digital Black 1TB
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB; ADATA 240GB nvme; Western Digital Black 1TB