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Actually based on Chromium 69 - 360EEv12 is the one based on Chromium 78... Basilisk 55/Moebius was actually born by MCP as a fork of a snapshot of Mozilla Firefox 53.0a1 (yes, the Nightly channel); there's very little, if anything, backported from Firefox stable 54.0 or 55.0; in fact, MCP, right after forking, started removing features, so that Basilisk 55 was even inferior to release channel Firefox 53.0, feature-wise (especially in what concerns e10s and WebExtension APIs) ... MCP just gave it an appVersion=55.0.x for purely "sensationalism" reasons ... Today's Serpent 55, as maintained by Roytam1 (updated roughly once a month), is a mixed-bag, an experimental app where patches from Mozilla, TenFourFox and, mostly, UXP are being applied... As for the matter at hand, Chromium-derived browsers are notorious for gobbling up RAM at the speed of light... By design, each tab is run in its own browser process, add to that several other processes needed by the browser core and extensions, add the amount of RAM devoured by your ad-blocker extension alone and you get the picture... Session restore in Chromium browsers is also an issue, because the application has to spawn, after initial launch, ALL these additional processes to "resurrect" the tabs present in the previous session... I was first introduced to PCs when Windows XP was the OS du jour, with its IE6 fine (!) browser which, if you care to remember, did not support tabs - opening 150-300 browser windows was unthinkable at the time... When "tabbed" browsers came into being, people started abusing the feature, many ending up doing, what was later called, tab-hoarding ; but websites of yesteryear were mainly static HTML pages, so the impact on consumed RAM (my initial XP box came with 512MB!) was small; this allowed tab-hoarders to continue the type of workflow they had been accustomed to... But lately, certainly within the last 5 years, web-sites have turned into web applications in their own right, laden with omnipresent rich media content and heavy scripts; embedded videos and high resolution images are now obligatory to attain high Google-analytics figures (which is what drives webpage creation now), plus wizards to social media are everywhere (even here on MSFN...). Browsers are being served huge blobs of (minified) Javascript, Web Assembly (wasm) code, huge CSS files, HTML5 video etc., that have to be decoded and rendered locally by the browser engine ! Especially the design of the (very popular) Social Media sites (Facebook, VK, instagram, twitter, tiktok, youtube e.a.), targeting mobile devices with touchscreens, with their "infinite-scroll" pages (where more content is loaded in memory as you scroll further), all that is a veritable menace to under-resourced and on "hardware-of-the-past" desktop machines... I am mentioning the above just to highlight the fact tab-hoarding has become a lot more difficult these days, especially on older (32-bit) OSes (which, by their nature, have worse RAM-handling/allocating capabilities than the recent 64-bit ones...). Don't get me wrong, I'm not passing judgement on @Cixert's workflow habits, just pointing out that his practice will simply get worse in the future, irrespective of browser/OS bugs... Pre-quantum Mozilla forks, like the ones issued by Roytam1, are basically single-process applications, which, by that fact alone, makes them more lenient on system resources; if you only have a few vital extensions, an intelligently configured content-blocker, you try to stay clear of desktop-hostile places like the main Social sites, then I suspect you can afford to open more tabs there... But remember, single process means that if one tab crashes, it takes the whole browser with it! On the subject of RAM consumption, let me also recommend the Lull-the-tabs legacy extension (by JustOff), which minimises significantly RAM consumption at browser start-up, especially when it tries to restore a large previous session... Looking for a similar add-on for Chromium browsers, The Great Suspender Original https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender-origi/ahmkjjgdligadogjedmnogbpbcpofeeo sounds promising, but I've not tried it myself, since I never have more than 25 tabs open in 360EEv12/13 (several of which are system tabs that don't consume RAM). Some more extensions to try are mentioned in: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-chrome-ram-memory-usage/ By the looks of it, Cixert has hit some session-restore bug on 360EEv11 that manifests itself under his specific usecase and/or OS configuration... In the following URL, https://www.webnots.com/8-ways-to-reduce-memory-and-cpu-usage-of-google-chrome/ I urge you to read chapters 2+3+4 ; if the session restore bug kicks-in at 151 opened tabs, then make sure you close the additional ones before exiting the browser; as others have said, you have to adapt to the browser's capabilities, should you wish to continue using 360EE... I'm not quite sure what is the exact OS/architecture this happens on, but later 360EE versions may fare better with regard to RAM management and session restore; have you tried 360EEv12 and/or 360EEv13? At the end of the day, if you find that none of the 360EE versions quench your work-related absolute need for 300 open tabs, you should consider staying with/switching to a browser that lets you do it... We can only help up to a point here, sadly... Best regards, stay safe

We have a similar thread called XP spotter, where members can post pics of XP running in the wild. But.. I thought it would be fun to make a new thread where people can show off their own NT 5.1 and 5.2 systems running in the wild Purpose of this thread is just to create some more community involvement. XP running in VMware unity Mode on 2003 X64 Bit.

Same old arguments. Whatever the current version of Windows OS is, it's the best thing since sliced bread. Whatever the former version of Windows OS is, it's flawed, lacks security, puts user data at risk, blah, blah, blah. As if that were not true for ALL versions of Windows OS, including the most current. I view this as just another scare to coerce users to Windows 10; which is a horrible OS.

1.6.7 is working great here

Thanks for your input RainyShadow. Yes too much stuff and not enough time here too. Your BMM-3111 looks very retro. FTA television is long gone here too. Shame, it helped bring the country together, especially the oldest generation. RetroBright is fascinating, never used it either. Floppy disks under the bed in 2021 - you have my nomination as geek of the year :) Just cleaned up my new (old) 15" SyncMaster CRT. The inside was clean for it's age, unlike my high use monitors. So either stored well or wasn't used much, probably explains the crisp colour and image quality. There was corrosion on the three-pronged electrical plug, carefully scraped with a utility knife and cleaned with lighter fluid, similar to cleaning the flame sensor of a gas furnace. Much better electrical contact now, previously there was an electrical arc when plugging in to a live socket. Took a minute to clean the VGA contacts too. Vacuum and dry paint brush to clean the inside, minimal dust. Remember one of my old high use televisions, which was very dusty inside, had paper manufacturer's stickers that dried up and fell to the bottom of the inside case. Thankfully they fell to the side of any heated electrical components. Interestingly there were no screws to remove the plastic cover, most monitors have four screws. Just pinch two-pronged plastic clips so the main tabs can be pushed down for the cover to slide off. I had to pry more than desired with a screwdriver on the plastic upper case tabs. This caused some plastic damage, gently filed down with a fine wood file. Just hold the file at the proper angle so the visible horizontal case surfaces don't get scratched. Plastic model maker tools or an emery stick would probably work better. Nonetheless i got a decent result, no burrs and the damage is barely visible. Quick monitor retest, still runs like new. Now i don't need to worry about excess overheating or fire hazard. Will probably never need to take it apart or clean it for the rest of my life. Switching between 15" and 19" monitors is a shock on the eyes. Makes me realize how spoiled my eyes have become. Will go back to my vision exercises. Chores around the house without glasses helps, get back to the monitor with glasses on and everything looks crisp (and large) again. Avoid using larger fonts as you age as much as possible. Most of us are now addicted to screens, remember the 20-20-20 rule.

Not on play store but Youtube Vanced is worth trying for a better Youtube experience.It's good, free and no ads at all

Well i must be the last human being on this planet to run Windows Server 2003 as main server OS to host anything i need to. I've appilied a lot of tweaks, removed unneeded stuff to get MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE!