Basilisk for Slackware Users

FTIO · 02-02-2023, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

The aforementioned site is working this morning, for whatever reason.

Yep...it's working here now also as of this moment.

On a different note...Basilisk doesn't show an icon on my taskbar when I open it up.

cwizardone · 03-05-2023, 10:33 AM

Basilisk-v2023.03.04 has been released.

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Published 2023-03-05
This is a bugfix and security update.
Fixed a crash in the new regular expression code.
Added {Extended_Pictographic} unicode property escape to regular expressions.
Fixed a regression in regular expressions for literal parsing of invalid ranges.
Updated NSS to pick up fixes.
Security issues addressed: CVE-2023-25733 DiD, CVE-2023-25739 DiD and CVE-2023-0767.
UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 1 fixed, 2 DiD, 14 not applicable.

https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

Downloads, https://www.basilisk-browser.org/download.shtml

cwizardone · 03-08-2023, 05:40 PM

Basilisk-v2023.03.07 has been released.

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Published 2023-03-07
This is a bugfix update.
Revert tab title fading feature that was added in v2023.03.04. Caused various issues with tab titles and addons such as Tab Mix Plus.

https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

https://www.basilisk-browser.org/download.shtml

cwizardone · 04-06-2023, 04:38 PM

Basilisk-v2023.04.04, has been released.

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This is a major update which introduces WebComponents support among other things. Thank you to all of the UXP contributors who worked to make this possible.
Basilisk is now available in beta for macOS and FreeBSD........

All the details can be found at, https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

cwizardone · 05-01-2023, 08:38 PM

Basilisk-v2023.05.01, has been released.

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Published 2023-05-01
This is a bugfix and security release.
Note: macOS, Linux aarch64, and FreeBSD beta builds will identify as 2023.04.30

The release and implementation notes can be found at, https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

cwizardone · 05-19-2023, 01:29 PM

Basilisk-v2023.05.17, has been released.

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v2023.05.17 Published 2023-05-17
This is another important, major development update.
With this version we should have restored web compatibility with the majority of reported problematic websites. If you were previously running into websites being problematic in Basilisk, it may be a good idea to try them again with this release.
Special thanks to Job Bautista, martok, dbsoft, FranklinDM and Travis, and all other UXP contributors for continuing their hard work making this a reality!
This updates the UXP/Goanna platform version to 6.2.......

A very long list of updates, fixes and improvements can be found at, https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

cwizardone · 06-22-2023, 10:42 AM

Basilisk-v2023.06.20, has been released.

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v2023.06.20 Published 2023-06-20
This is a small bugfix and stability update.
There were no applicable Mozilla security bugs this time around.
Fixed a crash in devtools in some OOM situations.
Fixed crashes when internal script execution was blocked by extensions.
Fixed crashes with WebComponents' ::slotted selector.
Disabled incremental cycle collector by default to avoid performance regressions.
Updated the default override for chase.com to work around issues.

https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

cwizardone · 07-19-2023, 10:41 AM

Basilisk-v2023.07.18, has been released.

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v2023.07.18 Published 2023-07-18
This is a major development update, further improving web compatibility.

The release notes and a download link can be found at, https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

cwizardone · 09-13-2023, 06:50 AM

Basilisk-v2023.09.12, has been released.

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v2023.09.12 Published 2023-09-12
This is a major development update, further improving web compatibility and fixing bugs......

The release notes and implementation notes can be found at, https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

kgha · 09-16-2023, 12:51 AM

Basilisk-v2023.09.15 has been released.

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v2023.09.15 Published 2023-09-15
This is a critical security update.

The release notes and implementation notes can be found at, https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

cwizardone · 10-04-2023, 10:12 AM

Basilisk-v2023.10.03, has been released.

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This is a bugfix and a critical security update.
Added WASM sign extension opcodes.
Added GTK version to "Help->About" on GTK builds.
Removed some unused Android/b2g/iOS code from Basilisk.
Removed some obsolete Crash Reporter and Error Reporting code from Basilisk.
Remove some unused code related to Mozilla telemetry from Basilisk.
Remove some unused stub functions from Basilisk.
Remove obsolete prefs related to the previously mentioned code removals from Basilisk.
Rewrite some code in Basilisk to use the text preprocessor at build time instead of AppConstants at run time.
Set Basilisk to always ask where to save files by default.
Fixed an issue in BigInt typedArray costructors.
Added some safety checks for Performance Observers.
Fixed JSON BigInt regressions.
Upgraded usrsctp library to a version over 5 years newer, fixing various security issues and potential bugs in sites using WebRTC DataChannels.
Fixed an issue with libvpx encoding (CVE-2023-5217)
Fixed an issue with dead Promise wrappers in JavaScript DiD
Fixed an issue with Alternative Services DiD

https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

cwizardone · 11-05-2023, 02:20 PM

Basilisk-v2023.11.05, has been released.

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Published 2023-11-05
This is a major development and security update.

A very long list of new features, changes, bug and security fixes can be found at, https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

cwizardone · 12-11-2023, 10:57 AM

Basilisk-v2023.12.09, has been released.

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v2023.12.09 Published 2023-12-08
This is a minor development and security update.
Important: as of this version, our beta FreeBSD binaries require at least FreeBSD 13.
We no longer support the data: protocol inside SVG's <use> statements.
Enabled more validation/error checking for WebGL on Windows to prevent potential crashes.
Improved secure context checking for iframes.
Fixed the handling of relative paths in URLs starting with multiple forward slashes.
Linux ARM64 was built with Clang instead of GCC due to issues with GCC on that platform.
Security issues addressed: CVE-2023-6204, CVE-2023-6210, CVE-2023-6209 and CVE-2023-6205 DiD
UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 3 fixed, 1 DiD, 14 not applicable.

https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml

kgha · 02-04-2024, 12:37 AM

Basilisk-v2024.02.03 has been released.

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v2024.02.03 Published 2024-02-03
This is a new milestone release.
Implemented a restricted version of the asynchronous clipboard API (navigator.clipboard). This API is restricted to writing only for obvious security considerations. It supports both plaintext and the standard DataTransfer methods. We did not implement the reinvented wheel concept of ClipboardItem objects.
Implemented support for SHA-2 (SHA-256/SHA-512/etc.) signatures for OCSP stapled responses.
Implemented PromiseRejectionEvent. Although this is rarely actually used, some common JS libraries (you know who you are!) use it as a feature level canary and start loading (broken!) Promise shims if it is not found, causing compatibility issues and broken websites due to the shims.
Aligned microtasks and Promises scheduling with the current spec and expected behavior.
We now no longer send click events to top levels of the document hierarchy when using non-primary buttons (use auxclick, instead, to capture these events).
Greatly improved the performance of box shadows.
Greatly improved the performance of file/data uploads over HTTP/2 (most of the secure websites out there).
Fixed several issues related to focus and content selection.
Fixed issues with the use of focus-within caused by unexpected processing of DOM events.
Fixed an issue with CSP not behaving as-expected when using importScripts(), and fixed a number of additional CSP-related issues.
Fixed a web compatibility issue with CORS preflights not sending the original request's referrer policy or referrer header.
Fixed a spec compliance issue with StructuredClone.
Fixed a crash due to clamping code introduced for SetInterval and SetTimeout timers.
Fixed crashes when dynamic imports are canceled (e.g. by navigation).
Changed <input type=file> to now have its .files property be writable following a spec change and recommendation.
We are now requiring and building against the C++17 language standard.
Updated the in-tree ffvpx lib to 6.0.
Added a preference to allow users to completely disable reporting of CSP errors to webmasters. Using this is strongly discouraged as it will provide essential troubleshooting information to webmasters setting up CSP, and does not pose a privacy issue, but for those who really want it, it can now be fully disabled. The preference is security.csp.reporting.enabled.
Updated the IntersectionObserver interface to now also accept documents for the observer root instead of only HTML elements.
Cleaned up various bits of code surrounding GMP, memory allocation, system libraries, vestigial Android code, freetype2 and developer tools.
Improved efficiency of handling D3D textures.
Added initial and experimental Mac PowerPC and Big Endian support.
Added preferences for the user to control whether or not the tab page title should be included in the window title or not. In Private Browsing mode, the default is now to not show the title in the window. This was done to avoid potential leakage to system logs (e.g. GNOME shell logs or Windows event logs) of websites visited through the recorded window title. The new preferences are privacy.exposeContentTitleInWindow and privacy.exposeContentTitleInWindow.pbm for normal mode and Private Browsing mode, respectively.
Fixed several crashes in DOM and relating to dynamic JavaScript module imports.
Removed a restriction on Fetch preflight redirects, following a spec update.
Improved the handling of web workers if they get aborted mid-action.
Linux releases on both x86_64 and aarch64 are now built with GCC 11 and Oracle Linux 8.
Linux aarch64 releases are no longer considered to be in beta. Autoupdates will now work for Linux aarch64 builds moving forward.
Linux aarch64 builds are now available with both GTK2 and GTK3.
Refactored easy build shell script to use Oracle Linux 8 and GCC 11.
Refactored easy build shell script to work on both x86_64 and aarch64.
Changed some default Basilisk networking preferences to better respect privacy and security out of the box.
Fixed broken security section in the Page Info window.
Security issues addressed: CVE-2023-6863, CVE-2023-6858, CVE-2024-0746, CVE-2024-0741, CVE-2024-0743 DiD, CVE-2024-0750 DiD, and CVE-2024-0753.
UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 7 fixed, 4 DiD, 1 rejected (which was DiD at best), 34 not applicable.

https://www.basilisk-browser.org/releasenotes.shtml