New Versions of SeaMonkey, Qutebrowser, and Tor Browser Released
The latest versions of several popular web browsers have been released, including SeaMonkey 2.53.18, Qutebrowser 3.1.0, and Tor Browser 13.0.6.
SeaMonkey 2.53.18
The SeaMonkey Internet application suite has been updated to version 2.53.18. SeaMonkey combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor (Composer) into a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the Chatzilla IRC client, a set of web development tools (DOM Inspector), and the Lightning calendar and planner.
This new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on the Firefox 60.8 engine, with security patches and some improvements ported from newer Firefox branches). The update further removes Mozilla branding elements, switches to BugSplat for error reporting, unifies notification and permission request labels, updates the NSS and NSPR libraries to the Firefox 115 ESR codebase, and adds the ability to build with the system ICU package.
Qutebrowser 3.1.0
The minimalist web browser Qutebrowser 3.1 has also been released. Qutebrowser offers a minimal graphical interface that doesn’t distract from content and features Vim-style keyboard navigation. The browser is written in Python using PyQt5 and QtWebEngine, and its source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license.
Key features include tabbed browsing, a download manager, private browsing mode, a built-in PDF viewer (pdf.js), ad blocking (host-based), and a history viewer. Users can configure an external video player for watching YouTube videos. Navigation is performed using the “hjkl” keys, opening a new page with “o”, and switching between tabs with “J” and “K” or “Alt-tab number”.
In this release, a new content.javascript.legacy_touch_events setting has been added to restore support for the legacy touchscreen event API. The colors.webpage.darkmode.policy.images parameter now includes a smart-simple value, which enables a simplified image classification algorithm for inversion on systems with QtWebEngine 6.6+. The browser now uses Qt 6.6.1 and Chromium 112. When built with Qt 6.6, the content.canvas_reading setting can be changed without restarting the browser.
Tor Browser 13.0.6
The privacy-focused Tor Browser 13.0.6 has also been released. This version fixes a bug that caused crashes when launching in Wayland-based environments if users tried to access add-ons via buttons pinned to the toolbar. On Linux, shader cache for NVIDIA graphics cards has been disabled, as it could leave potentially sensitive data on disk.
Additionally, Tor 0.4.8.10 toolkit has been published, addressing a vulnerability (TROVE-2023-007). Details about this issue have not yet been disclosed, but it is reported to be high-risk and affects exit nodes that support the Conflux traffic splitting protocol.
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