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Basilisk Browser (64-bit)

November, 4th 2022 - 41 MB - Freeware

What's new in this version:

Basilisk Browser 2022.11.04 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- a potential heap Use-After-Free risk in Expat
- potentially undefined behavior in our thread locking code
- a potentially exploitable crash in the refresh driver
- potentially undefined behavior when base-64 decoding

- Added detection suport for the newly-released MacOS 13 (Ventura)
- Implemented a texture size cap for WebGL to prevent potential issues with some graphics drivers
- Updated site-specific overrides to address issues with ZoHo
- UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 1 fixed, 2 DiD, 6 not applicable

Basilisk Browser 2022.09.28 (64-bit)
This is a major development, bugfix and security release:
- Note: The default serch engines have changed. Please verify that your configuration still uses your preferred search engine.
- Implemented .at(index) JavaScript method on built-in indexables (Array, String, TypedArray)
- Implemented the use of EventSource in workers
- Enabled the sending of the Origin: header by default on same-origin requests
- Changed how Basilisk is built. We have made build system changes to reduce build times and pressure on the linker on all platforms. Note that Basilisk is not yet built with Visual Studio 2022. This change will be done in the next release
- Changed how Basilisk handles standalone wave audio files (.wav). See implementation notes
- Improved string normalization
- Updated the handling of CSS "supports" to now accept unparenthesized strings (spec update)
- Updated the handling of flex containers in web pages for web compatibility
- Fixed various issues when building for Mac OS X
- Fixed various C++ standard conformance issues in the source code
- Fixed several issues building on SunOS and Linux with various configurations and gcc versions
- Fixed an issue with regular expressions' dotAll syntax and usage. See implementation notes
- Switched custom hash map to std::unordered_map where prudent
- Cleaned up and updated IPC thread locking code
- Removed spacing for accessibility focus rings in form controls to align styling of them with expected metrics
- Removed the unnecessary control module for building with non-standard configurations of the platform
- Removed the -moz prefix from min-content and max-content CSS keywords where it was still in use
- Updated the search engines included with Basilisk. Basilisk now includes the same search engines as Pale Moon
- Fix issue where PDF.js was completely broken in the previous release
- Fixed an important stability and performance issue related to hardware acceleration
- Implemented Global Privacy Control in the Basilisk settings
- Fix issue where the 32-bit Windows installer would not execute on 32-bit Windows systems
- Remove Mozilla related default bookmarks. Update default bookmarks
- Update compatmode override for Firefox to 102.0
- Update user agent overrides to improve compatibility with Facebook
- Security fixes: CVE-2022-40956 and CVE-2022-40958
- UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 2 fixed, 11 not applicable

Basilisk Browser 2022.08.06 (64-bit)
This is a major update:
- Very Important: This is the first public release from the Basilisk Development team. As such, the vendor name in the application has changed. This means the profile directory has changed. See here for more info. You will have to perform a manual update if you are currently running Basilisk 2022.01.27 as it was compiled without an updater.
Note: Many things have changed since 2022.01.27 and 2022.08.06. We've tried to note all changes here but it is very likely something was missed:
- Fixed several application crash scenarios
- Fixed a number of thread locking/mutex issues
- Fixed a leak of content types due to inconsistent error reporting
- Fixed an issue with iframe sandboxing not being properly applied
- Fixed a potential leak of bookmarks from the exported bookmarks file if it included a malicious bookmarklet.
- Fixed an issue with drag-and-drop
- Fixed a potential crash due to truncated WAV files.
- Fixed a memory safety issue with XSLT
- Fixed a potential crash issue on bing.com.
- Fixed some thread locking issues
- Worked around a Mesa driver bug that could cause crashes
- Fixed a potential resource access issue in devtools
- Security issues with CVEs addressed: CVE-2022-1097, CVE-2022-28285 (DiD) and CVE-2022-28283 (DiD).
- Implemented Global Privacy Control, taking the place of the unenforceable "DNT" (Do Not Track) signal. Through GPC, you indicate to websites that you do not want them to share or sell your data.
- Implemented "optional chaining"
- Implemented setBaseAndExtent for text selections
- Implemented queueMicroTask() "pseudo-promise" callbacks
- Implemented accepting unit-less values for rootMargin in Intersection observers for web compatibility, making it act more like CSS margin as one would expect
- Improvements to CSS grid and flexbox rendering and display following spec changes and improving web compatibility
- Improved performance of parallel web workers in JavaScript
- Improved display of cursive scripts (on Windows). Good-bye Comic Sans!
- Updated various in-tree libraries
- Added support for extended VPx codec strings in media delivery via MSE (RFC-6381).
- Fixed a long-time regression where the browser would no longer honor old-style body and iframe body margins when indicated in the HTML tags directly instead of CSS. This improves compatibility with particularly old and/or archived websites.
- Fixed several crashes and stability issues
- Removed all Google SafeBrowsing/URLClassifier service code
- Restored Mac OS X code and buildability in the platform
- Removed the non-standard ArchiveReader DOM API that was only ever a prototype implementation
- Removed most of the last vestiges of the invasive Mozilla Telemetry code from the platform. This potentially improves performance on some systems.
- Removed leftover Electrolysis controls that could sometimes trick parts of the browser into starting in a (very broken) multi-process mode due to some plumbing for it still being present, if users would try to force the issue with preferences. Obviously, this was a footgun for power users.
- Removed more Android/Fennec code (on-going effort to clean up our code).
- Removed the Marionette automated testing framework.
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2022-29915, CVE-2022-29911, and several issues that do not have a CVE number.
- Implemented "nullish coalescing operator" for web compatibility.
- Fixed various crash scenarios in XPCOM.
- Fixed an important stability and performance issue related to hardware acceleration.
- Fixed a long-standing issue where dynamic datalist updates for