Plasmafox is the nightly branding for r3dfox. This release has the Plasmafox branding due to it being based upon the nightly build 153.0a1. This is a bit out of date considering it's an over two week old build by now, however I just don't feel like trying to make a new build on my own. This release is 64 bit only for now. Historically I never made 32 bit beta builds, but if wanted I can make them for later versions.
Also on top of that, Plasmafox has experimental features not in release r3dfox. Such as enhanced tab unloading on low memory with options to tweak for it from #17.
By the way if you still still have a Plasmafox v133.0(.4)e install you want to update to this release, please back up your profile if you wish to use it with this version. It automatically enabled clear history for me for whatever reason and cleared my history, but I had backed up my profile so it was fine. If you're starting fresh, you shouldn't have any issues.
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Release notes
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The portable builds are fully portable, the profile directory is inside the browser folder. It does not touch appdata at all.
Requirements to use the browser on a given OS:
Vista: Service Pack 2 + KB971644 Platform Update
7 RTM/SP0 and later: Should just work.
Notable bugs:
The 32 bit build is built with --disable-sandbox. With the sandbox enabled under Vista, the browser fails to open multiple processes which breaks the browser. The 64 bit build is fine. Considering Mypal68 globally disables the sandbox, I don't think it's that bad. If this really is a big issue then please pr a fix.
Cairo/GDI backend ignores system cleartype settings and causes crashes on older versions of Windows and crashes without e10s.
New r3dfox specific changes in this build:
Fixed theme colors not being applied to some pages or buttons in the browser.
Menu accuracy improvements.
Renamed two preferences to be a bit more generic for forks for people wanting to use them in other projects, (Restore classic View Image context menu options) r3dfox.view.image -> browser.menu.viewImage, and (Use the classic about:config page) r3dfox.ui.oldaboutconfig -> browser.ui.oldaboutconfig. This does mean these options will be reset, so you will have to reapply your preferences for them if you changed them.
Mostly just backend changes and making sure stuff works more properly for this release.
Also I have redone the commits to also include credit for everyone that has worked on them or what projects I've taken them from. Some main exceptions are the baseline e3k patch set since I reapply them every release and there's no reasonable way to apply co-authorship to 300+ commits. Librewolf commits also don't have this since they're on Codeberg and not GitHub, and multiple people have worked on multiple commits, and I may have to replace them in the future to fix issues. However I always mention from Librewolf or (Librewolf) in the title, so I figure that's good enough. The rest I've tried to add credit where I remembered. If you contributed to this browser and don't see your name in the commit you contributed, pls let me know and I will fix.
Haven't tested on XP (OCAPI) nor have I extensively stability tested.
Please let me know what bugs or issues you encounter with it.