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Some minor edits to the N2I version of the UOC Patch have been done. Please re-download!

K-Meleon and userscripts: yeah an endless drama :-( I don't understand that subject either, as far as xpi-addons are involved, KM-forum posts about it are all more or less confusing, to me too. Does it work, or not?? How much workarounds are needed to get it working, how much functions must be replaced by workaround-macros - or is possibly the whole thing then done ONLY by macros?? And even sometimes doubtful: did the person posting addon instructions really try it himself? One of the tips given repeatedly was: the gm_scripts folder must be created manually in the profile, at best just copied over from another Mozilla browsers. But that's probably not the only trick needed?? Wish since years that one of the advanced KM-users would finally figure things out once and for all. Am not the right person for this myself, being stuck on old OS and old KM-version, and shying away from yet another time consuming task on top of the ever growing pile (don't even manage to finally finish some really important favorite macros, and having zero personal experience with userscript addons in Firefox either, it just makes no sense). Although am afraid, some day might be forced to try anyway if no one else does (on a rarely used xp offline machine), to finally figure out a bit more. What I am only familiar with is the very basic function that KM macros can use: check URL onload, then "readfile" of the local script defined in the macro, and inject the content into the webpage. Over the years I've spend hundreds of hours struggling with that stuff, especially GUIs, with only partial success, and much time and nerves wasted in vain. One of the probs for the macro method is, with local scripts it's not possible to attach them as link, they can only be injected as inline script. Another (huge) prob is the size limit, in current KM "readfile" is allowed only max 64kB, in older ones even just tiny 32kB. That means all those huge youtube-scripts out there are hopeless for this method! (but I absolutely needed it, so the only lousy workaround was to manually chop such a file into 2 parts by notepad, then when called by menu, have the macro read both and stitch together. But less desperate users won't consider such hassles, and also hope on newer KM-versions there are better methods possible - just which??) By the way am using a great old userscript to create a list of direct download links, which is only about 37kB! For my old KM that's a prob, but in current KM it's small enough, so perhaps worth trying. This script only creates normal links to the various video qualities, nothing else. John made a macro for it: http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?9,142050 My personal version is slightly modified to just plaster all links over the black rectangle, and only on demand. Am very happy with this, and MPClassic. Thought of this a bit late, since everyone here is only talking about the viewtube script (115kB), and everyone seems to want to watch the videos inside the page. That's a bigger housenumber.

Methinks the UOC Enforcer file (user.js) hasn't been correctly installed, as both directories depicted are not the main profile directories of either New Moon 27 nor FirefoxESR 45! Page 1 of this thread says: To easily locate your main browser profile folder, use the browser's about:support internal tab, from there "Application basics" => "Profile folder" => "Open folder" button... E.g. for FxESR 45 it should be located at: "C:\Documents and Settings\Tualatin\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\e0afyh62.default" Regards

*UPDATE!* I have reworked all the versions of the UOC Patch and the Enforcer, as I have increased the amount of content processing the browser can do, from 0 to 4. This seemed to improve performance on my machine. I also have introduced the support for E10S both on the 45 ESR and the 52 ESR version of the Patch. On the 38 ESR version, it has not been added because 38 ESR based browsers do not support E10S. For the users of Classic Theme Restorer, I have added two options in the UOC Enforcer for 45/52 ESR based browsers that disable the animations when you click on an UI element, since they consume CPU cycles. The new build version is N2I. On the 45 ESR version of the UOC Patch, I have reduced the tile size to 4x4, because it seems that speeds up scrolling and makes it smoother. On the other hand, on 38 ESR based browsers, doing the same makes them unusable and prone to crashing, so I have left them at 512x512. I haven't touched the 52 ESR version in that aspect, as I do not have a machine where I can test the different canvas sizes, so that one has been left with the stock 256x256 parameter. If anybody of you uses a FF52 based browser with the UOC Patch, please do this test for me. In about:config, search for these the parameters below: layers.tile-width layers.tile-height They are set to 256x256 by default. Try to change them to 512x512 and let me know if you notice a difference. If you do, I will implement that in the Patch. As always, please update and let me know the outcome, and remember that the UOC Patch and the Enforcer are offered AS THEY ARE. Happy RDDin'!

PotPlayer 1.7.20977 Stable. There is a 32 bit version, but it was not tested by beta testers. It works in WinXP. 32 bit: https://t1.daumcdn.net/potplayer/PotPlayer/Version/Latest/PotPlayerSetup.exe 64 bit: https://t1.daumcdn.net/potplayer/PotPlayer/Version/Latest/PotPlayerSetup64.exe

The above extension is installed as part of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/app-development/firefox-add-ons-to-support-net-application-deployment#net-framework-assistant-for-firefox It can't be uninstalled the normal way via about:addons; more below: https://support.microsoft.com/el-gr/help/963707/how-to-remove-the-net-framework-assistant-for-firefox

M$ just wanted to get people to buy their failed Lumia phones thus the crap UI and missing start button or classic startup menu. time has proven they were wrong because they ended up switchig over to Andoid OS.... and now Chrome based browser too

The extension's XPI file is hosted on GitHub which, as you might know already, is now owned by Microsoft; it is a relatively big file (for an extension that is ), so it's probably consuming a big chunk of GH's bandwidth with its downloads - a "valid" pretence for them to request its removal from a free repository - IOW, I don't trust M$ one bit ; fortunately, the extension is just a database, the legacy addons themselves are being hosted on Waterfox servers... Aren't you able to even run the SSE-only compile of New Moon 27? Not even the ia32 (no-SSE) compile? Because CAA installs and loads fine here in New Moon 27 (the standard, SSE2+, build)... As for the legacycollector.org site/service, the alphabetical index resides here ; please give the URL proper time to load fully (it's all on one scrollable page; I guess this is a poor web design choice on the part of the maintainer ). The database for this site is humangous, circa 15 GiB, so not quite sure at what extent it could be saved in the Internet Archive... Of course, individual legacy extension users like you and me have one month (?) to save (both locally and on the IA) those addons they're interested in... The admin of the site has also generated a compressed archive of the whole site (in .tar.xz format, circa 8.23 GiB) and made it available over the Bit Torrent network (but not for long), for people wishing to pick up the baton...

Glad you got it working! No biggie, but thanks! It did sort of grate on my nerves a bit, especially when jumper chimed in with the same misspelling!

My sorrow now is a problem with additions to modify palemoon and firafox. At http://legacycollector.org/firefox-addons/, he clearly states that Note: this archive will be shut down in December 2019. Anyone know something about this problem?

You would be horribly mistaken. It’d still be wrong, but vastly less wrong to say you’re the only person who doesn’t use single core CPUs here these days. And complaining about the hardware people choose / choose not to use isn’t something we do here.

Judging from what @looking4awayout put in post 1, the main difference is that tiled compositing and async pan/zoom are disabled in the FF 52 version. So I'd say NM 28, SM 2.49, BNavigator, and Serpent 52 & 55 should all use the FF 52 patch, since tiled compositing is broken in FF 52 (and so, presumably in all its derivatives too).

Thanks for providing the screenshots. From what we can see, the FX5200 successfully accelerates the browser in hardware, but does not accelerate WebGL, due to the driver version used. The situation is bleaker with the Radeon 9550, where the hardware acceleration does not work at all. I'm not surprised about the result, because those two graphics cards are too old to receive any benefit for the patch. For a Geforce FX, a 5600 is a better option since at least you have full hardware acceleration minus WebGL, which is not strictly essential. Concerning this, there might be a way to trick Firefox into enabling full hardware acceleration, which is done by spoofing the driver version. You have to create a batch file that lets you decide the driver version and eventually, the VID and PID of your graphics card, in order to let Firefox think it's using another driver version, or even another graphics card. You can find more info about that on Google. Unfortunately YMMV with that, as the spoofer might work with some cards (for example, it does on my old 6800GT and my current X1950 Pro, as I use driver versions that are officially blacklisted by Mozilla, but they are the fastest ones for the respective cards), but it might not work with others, or even cause the browser to crash altogether. About Youtube, as I said, you do not want to use the HTML5 player with those graphics cards, as it is already too taxing for the CPU, let alone for those poor cards, which do not have any kind of support for that feature. There is a way for you to watch YouTube in browser much like you do with a modern computer. First, you have to download this extension, Greasemonkey: https://legacycollector.org/firefox-addons/748/greasemonkey-3.9.xpi Then, you must download this script called ViewTube: http://sebaro.pro/viewtube/ Once you have downloaded it, installed and enabled it, you will have to configure VLC first, in order stream Youtube videos most likely at 360p or 480p (I used to watch videos at 480p and they ran fine on the 6800GT, I actually do not remember if I used 480p with the FX5600 though), then you have to enable the VLC plugin in Firefox, and in Viewtube, you need to set the option from the Viewtube list to "Low Definition MP4", then in the Auto dropdown menu, you must choose VLC, then click on the HD button and choose LD, and select the MD option and voila, you will be able to watch YouTube videos in browser even with a very old graphics card. YT 2 Player does the same thing: https://legacycollector.org/firefox-addons/550044/yt2p-1.2.1-signed.xpi The difference between Viewtube and YT 2 Player is that unlike the former, the latter just automatically opens VLC whenever you click on a Youtube link. But first you have to configure the add-on in order to point it to the location of your VLC installation. Remember to periodically update your Youtube.lua file, or else videos will not be played.