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This is a very old profile, @VistaLover would call it a (very) dirty profile. Every missing functionality was retrofitted by me with many scripts, custom buttons, CSS style sheets and, as already mentioned, tons of extensions. But believe or not, this profile is still working. And legacy extensions are not that heavy as webextensions. Many of them have no negative impact on the browser's performance.

... Read these GitHub comments, if one's after the x86 binaries: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/686#issuecomment-2183203030 https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/686#issuecomment-2183230334

Has it been confirmed they actually want full SSE4.2? I did check my old AMD has working POPCNT instruction, this is the one setup wizard explicitly asks for. I wonder if bypassing those blocks would still allow to install and boot in this case, so no SSE4.2, but this instruction alone is still supported on some older CPUs. You actually have to check for POPCNT support by looking at specific bit in ECX register's value after executing CPUID instruction with EAX register set to 0x1, it's not really part of any SSE set. SSE4.2 check could be used as shortcut and future-proofing though...

The nostalgia...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tn2zuMbuFM The rest of the soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE707BAF5CC143199 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nXDHLSinJ0&list=PLE707BAF5CC143199&index=30

AstroSkipper said: "No problem here surfing all websites by default in mobile view on my Windows XP computer. You can do that in every browser." Hello AstroSkipper, Please,would you kindly describe in detail the way you do it ?

How common are complete separate sites for mobile and desktop these days? I have the impression they mostly opt to responsive design, so you get the same site regardless of the device, the CSS magic takes care of layout. You could say that about any era, really, just adjust the numbers. I started with 133 MHz Pentium and 16 MB of RAM. You could actually watch progress bar for Hover! to load. First "modern" PC I got had a 2 GHz Celeron and 256 MB of RAM. That RAM amount soon proved insufficient (was upgraded to 1 GB). At much later time, I learned I was basically pushing low-end PC to the limit by trying to play latest games on it. The hardware seemed flaky as-is, overclocking didn't help and again, at much later time, I got to know it was an era of capacitor plague on top. And those Maxtors just loved going out with a click of death, that PC got motherboard replaced at some point as well, maybe I'd still have the PC if it wasn't for it ending up without a HDD and bunch of old stuff was discarded when moving to a new location. I can't even imagine what I'd want in a browser to be able to come up with a list of 74 extensions. I do notice even with my much humbler list, there is significant delay in startup time, which can't be halved even by having browser profile folder plus even entire browser loaded from RAM disk.

Well, that's what I want to check. What is true and what is false. According to that link I have to use H2wtest to verify units. I have already mentioned that in one of the units I have stopped that test at 624 GiB. But I still don't want to confirm that this capacity is real. I will upload all results tests. Until now I have been trying to make the drives visible in Windows XP, unfortunately I have not succeeded and I do not understand why. The result on XP is the same as with the Seagate 5TB external box converted to MBR. The device manager recognizes and installs the hardware, but neither the drive nor the partitions are visible, except in this case I can take the hard disk out of the box and connect it with another adapter. On these drives with supposedly 12 and 16 TB, these are displayed in the device manager... ... but only 2 programs recognize that there is a disk drive installed in XP, MiniTool Partition Wizard and EaseUS Partition Master, but both show the drive as a 2 TB "Bad Disk". Afaik I have to conclude that some drives with more than 2 TB are not possible to install on XP with Microsoft drivers due to the adapter firmware. It seems that there are certain adapters type that on XP are limited to 2TB. It is somewhat strange, because I have 8 TiB external hard drives working with USB adapters on XP, but not all adapters work. Some with MBR +2TB do not work on XP but do work on NT 6-10 and others do not work on any operating system. I will be left wondering why. I have tried to install the Universal ATA Driver (UniATA), but I have not succeeded yet, it seems that it is necessary to edit the .inf file adding the Hardware ID. so that my unit is recognized. http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata/uni_ata.php Does anyone know another updated driver for disk drives in XP?

No problem here surfing all websites by default in mobile view on my Windows XP computer. You can do that in every browser. I do this by default only in Thorium in a blacklist mode, i.e. all websites on the blacklist are accessed in desktop view, all others in mobile view. Works fine here.

I think that they are making a big mistake with Wayland, just because it is not X11 with improvements . One of the main reason why Windows is still so popular is that almost nothing gets removed from the api, you can still run most Windows 95 desktop apps on Windows 11. Corporations and developers of other software value backwards compatibility a lot. You can't expect everyone to update their software just because you now consider a feature they relied on obsolete (having everything running in xwayland is also not a solution). Developers (especially hobbyist) tend to flag something as obsolete as soon as they come up with a better idea before even implementing it in a stable way, there is just no corporation to remind them of all the customers they may lose in the process.

The Pegasus NES was sold in Poland. Dendy system were more of a thing people knew existed but didn't know about, more popular to know about than the Pegasus. I wouldn't consider Russia to even be a country to use as an example for famiclone proliferation, rather Hong Kong was the primary source for those. On translations, "just aware" meaning that I've heard of it before, not to mean that I just heard of it from this link. One of my side-projects is research into international release of computers and video games. Gruz is Polish word, not Russian, as one would expect that a book written in Polish would be using their own words. It translates to "rubble" as per Google translate, so I wonder if it is to mean "junk" like "retrojunk" type thing people from English speaking countries may refer to something as. Maybe a Polish speaking user can post here what the title is supposed to mean.

Thanks for asking! As long as no new errors occur and everything is running well, there is no need to update. I'm travelling on so many fronts that my time needs to be well managed. Or is something not working? I can't see any serious problems at the moment. uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.35 is running fine here.

Things have gotten quiet here lately... Any news on the next release of UBOL? Scott

i don't think you can compare phone browsing and pc browsing hence why mobile browsers go to m.website.whatever and pc do not yes you can still use old browsers on phone and not much RAM heck until recently i still used Opera that was ~11 years old for Android, 90% sites ran smoothly but mobile sites were "made" for mobile browsing, not to mention most started for webkit anyway...

I tried to replace Lindy 41062 DP adapter with Cable Matters 102101-BLK (VMM7100). The result is VMM7100 can't support wide gamut when using Intel API HDR. Besides, obliviously the new DP adapter has same problem like Lindy 41062 DP adapter, so they can't transfer lossless compression audio when playing UHD Blu-ray discs on PC. Latest ROG STRIX Z490-F GAMING BIOS 3001 including the patch for the LogoFAIL vulnerabilities broke the compatibility with Lindy 41062 DP adapter, so I need a new DP adapter to replace it. But DP adapters using VMM7100 are worse than my old DP adapter. Intel's new WiFi driver can't work on 1607 because it uses new functions from 1803, like IoGetDriverDirectory.

"Buyer Beware - 16tb or larger External/Portable SSD/USB drives are fake. You currently cannot buy a real 16tb external SSD or any USB drives larger than 2tb, at all. They don't exist." https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/buyer-beware-16tb-or-larger-external-portable-ssd-usb-drives-are-fake.3773032/

You probably need to reinstall the kernel with these settings (MSVCTR must be the one from NT6): Then once you install Supermium, move everything inside the 122.0.6261.152 folder (depending on version) next to chrome.exe and make a shortcut with "--no-sandbox --single-process --process-per-site". It might crash after a few minutes though.

"How would you deal with this? ("2TB" flash storage scam) : r/Ebay" https://www.reddit.com/r/Ebay/comments/79jtnj/how_would_you_deal_with_this_2tb_flash_storage/

They are still working on releasing the 1st 16tb nvme now: https://www.techradar.com/news/16tb-m2-nvme-ssds-wont-be-coming-any-time-soon-heres-why The largest portable drive you can get is 4tb now: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-a...isk-extreme-pro-usb-3-2-ssd#SDSSDE81-1T00-G25 Only 8tb internal ssd exist: https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/sata-ssd/ssd-870-qvo-sata-3-2-5-inch-8tb-mz-77q8t0bw/

Oh, thanks, I now get it! It means "load", most likely.

"What the hell is up with thumb drives on eBay? Are they ..." https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/rusdva/what_the_hell_is_up_with_thumb_drives_on_ebay_are/

Kissing.

From what I learnt at the academy, "gruz" is extensively used in Russia and Eastern Bloc's military codes. For example, Gruz 200 means - dead Russky. Gruz 300 means severely wounded Russky, with no chance to be in combat any time soon, needs mending asap. So my guess "gruz" translates to something like "burden", "weight", "ballast".

I've got similar situation: searched computer for chrome_elf.dll, found it and put it in the folder with chrome.exe. Then i was asked for dbhelp.hll, searched the web for WinXP x86 version of the file and put it in the same folder. After that system showed up following error: The procedure entry point strncat_s could not be located in thd dynamic link library msvcrt.dll. Next, I put in Supremium folder msvcrt.dll file from System32 with no effect, then tried msvcrt.dll from OnePiece pack - no luck again. Here is a cross-link to gitHub to win32ss conversation: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/677 Just to link things up, for followers. By the way, is there a reliable method to check if the KernelEx installation is correct?

I know dev tools are provided as-is... But I still find references to Firefox amusing. I also didn't know Firefox codebase at any point included ASCII art anywhere. While browsers struggle to run id Tech 4, ala DOOM 3, classic DOOM is not a problem, even for UXP browsers (OK, maybe a little bit...). http://browser-doom.io/ But I'm not sure if ZDoom engine would run well if ported to web browser environment. This one doesn't just feature shareware (demo) versions of those games, lets you upload data files of full versions.

I can get by with 1 GB of RAM on an almost 10 years old smartphone just fine with few tabs of normal websites. Of course I don't expect it to run heavy web apps and there are some cumbersome, unbearable sites like https://www.mimovrste.com/, but most others are a breeze (I don't count most social media). The trick is not using full blown web browser, but a browser utilizing WebView like Via. I'm not aware of any non Chromium implementation of WebView on Android, but it's how to keep resource usage down. Not sure how recent versions of Via are, should still be OK, though at some point the user reviews were worse... In any case, NOTHING on either my phone or computer updates automatically. Most browsers on a desktop will lean towards larger RAM usage though. You could keep it simple if you really wanted and especially if you still use one of those old machines that survived capacitor plague, but if you have the RAM, it's there to be used. Unused RAM is wasted RAM, you know? BTW... https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/modern-web-bloat-means-some-entry-level-phones-cant-run-simple-web-pages-and-load-times-are-high-for-pcs-some-sites-run-worse-than-pubg Funny it mentions Quora, I never had problems with Quora, even on that old smartphone, except with nags for registering. Am I supposed to do anything special? May take a bit to load, but afterwards it's mostly fine. That said, modern web is riddled with analytics and other garbage, which must be blocked to keep things somewhat sane.