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Pale Moon has been updated to Version 27.6.0. This is a major development update. Details are available in the Release Notes.

To get the update now, select "Help" from the Pale Moon menu at the upper left of the browser window.  Select About Pale Moon > Check for Updates.

I agree and because I do prefer Pale Moon for everyday usage added it manually.

Windows 7: reading about the font issue concerns me. So far, I have not updated to 27.6.0.
I went in search of the fix and have both the x86 and x64 versions downloaded just in case I have problems. I might head to the Palemoon forum and see if there are any threads dealing with this possible issue.

Follow-up Re:  Pale Moon and "Controlled folder access":  Received reply from Amital Rottem with information submitting as f/p and to provide him with the submission ID, indicating he would look into it.

Thanks for this Corrine.

That would be decent if there is a procedure to have legit programs whitelisted. That said, I can see how that could create a manpower issue for MS trying to keep up with it. Still, surely there are 1000s (millions?) of hits on MS sites everyday by PM users so it should not be hard for MS to determine if PM (or any browser) is legit.

FWIW, I have not seen any font issues.

but the easiest method is to "Use the Windows Defender Security app to whitelist specific apps". 

It is not hard but not sure I would call it easy just based on the number of steps needed to add a program.

• Open Action/Windows Defender Security Center,
• Open Virus & threat protection,
• Click on Virus & threat protection settings,
• Scroll down and under Controlled folder access, click on Allow an app through Controlled folder access,
• Click on the "+" next to Add an allowed app,
• Navigate through File Manager to the app's executable (assuming you know how) and highlight file,
• Click Open,
• In the User Account Control popup, click Yes.

Now the number of steps are less if you catch the first warning popup, but still, it would be nice if the warning contained the necessary filepath to the executable. 

Having said all that, ultimately this is making Windows Defender even more formidable. A very good thing and if I were a competing anti-malware solution, I would be concerned - and rightfully so.

Since I can no longer edit my post, I'm adding additional information.
If I go to View, Character encoding, and change from Unicode to Western, things display properly.

I'm now trying to determine how to make Western the default because I have to make this change on a page by page basis and it doesn't "remember" what I've selected.

Perhaps I can just fix my issue by changing the character encoding only on pages where I might see some strange unicode character.
This is what I see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Replacement_character.svg

Yup, they all appear the way they should.

I found out after the fact, the person sending the email did something different to get the degree symbol.
When I use my two alt + 248 and alt + 0176 using the numbers on the keypad, the degree appears correctly.
Voila °  and °

I'm glad I'm a slow mover and did not install the fix as posted on the Palemoon site.

PM, IE, Notepad and the Desktop were all affected occasionally/unpredictably.

Which would suggest it had nothing to do with PM.