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You can also have a service run in its own svchost.exe which makes its behaviour a lot easier to observe: sc config <service> type= own And to revert to the 'normal' shared behaviour: sc config <sevice> type= share For example, if you wanted the Automatuc Updates service to have its own svhost.exe: sc config wuauserv type= own Ben.

For people who enjoy testing. I would like to express my thanks for the work. Jumper, I know you've spent endless hours with the further development of KernelEX. I'm able to run Firefox 35 and even 52.9 and see almost the whole contents of the web on Windows Millennium again. Versions 24 up to 35.0.1 are still usable for some websites. However, these versions are no longer up to today's requirements. There is a workaround to run higher versions up to 52.9 as well as RT's Serpent 55/52, NewMoon 28 and others - see below. ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases Firefox Portable: sourceforge.net - FirefoxPortable Firefox 24.0 - 35.0.1 Requirements: KernelEx: KernelEx.dll 4.5.2016.25, Kexbasen.dll 4.5.2016.25, Kexbases.dll 25, Core.ini 25h with Kexcom.dll 18, Sheet.dll 19, verify.exe 18 and VKrnlEx.vxd of 18 Set Firefox.exe, Xul.dll and furthermore for portables the FirefoxPortable.exe to Windows XP SP2 or higher. Otherwise you get an error "Couldn't load XPCOM". Explanation: Xul.dll is set to 2k in the Registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\KernelEx\AppSettings\Configs). This string entry *\XUL.DLL="NT2K" can be deleted to get the file in follower mode (default). Reboot required. 2k mode was set on Xul for older FF versions like 9.0.1. Don't choose Legacy WinXPSP2! Firefox will be very unstable. Recommended Hardware: Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2 512MB of RAM 200MB of hard drive space After version 48, SSE2 CPU extensions are going to be required on Windows. Improved version 31.8 for ME/98: Details: Download: Firefox 31.8esr portable Extensions: Compatibility PlainOldFavorites 1.3.1 Firefox 3.0 - 56.* QuickJava 2.0.5 Firefox 20.0 - 36.* ClassicThemeRestorer 1.5.3 CTR Firefox 29.0 - 50.0 Newer Versions and Forks: Firefox 42.0 - 48.0.2 Additional requirements: SeaMonkey Thunderbird Cyberfox, GNU IceCat Light Browser NewMoon 27 Firefox 49 - 52.9, Mypal 28/29, Centaury and SeaMonkey 2.46 - 2.49.5 , IceDragon Requirements: Extensions: Classic Add-ons Archive (Firefox 45 - 56). It is a very large collection of extensions and is almost indispensable. FF43 - 47 and 52 ESR: "xpinstall.signatures.required" => false to install unverified add-ons (already set in RT's builds). A workaround is required for versions 48: Override the Firefox Add-on Signing enforcement This is usually also necessary for higher versions, but not in every case. Firefox extensions on archive.org/WaybackMachine Firefox Legacy Collector Serpent/NewMoon 28/IceApe... - Testers are welcome. Short summary to run these browsers: Screenshot with add-ons Plain Old Favorites, Get Archive, Free Memory Button and Classic Add-ons Archive: Note: There is still no known workaround to run FF 36 - 41 (crash on start) and the corresponding forks with a few exceptions like IceCat 38. Versions 12 - 23 are freezing after some seconds and are useless in today's internet anyway. Limitations, issues, solutions, other settings and recommendations: Limitations: WebGL and Direct2D! Blocked for graphics card because of unresolved driver issues. Limited WebGL support with adequate graphics driver and graphics card: WebGL 1.0 based on OpenGL ES 2.0 and requires OpenGL 2.0 graphics driver support. 1. Nvidia Geforce 7 (full support OpenGL 2.0) 2. Drivers NV81.85 and higher 3. Settings: webgl.force-enabled => true and webgl.disable-angle => true Browser crashes or freezings are possible and are probably caused by graphics drivers infirmities. So turn it on only when necessary. WebGL-Renderer ANGLE: 1. It needs at least hardware providing DirectX VertexShader 2.0 and PixelShader 3.0 (vs2.0 ps3.0), DirectX 9c. (graphics cards Nvidia Geforce 6 and 7 series - Shader Model 3.0) 2.Setting: webgl.force-enabled => true It doesn't cause any crashes or freezings. It can be switched on permanently. D3D11 compositing: There is simply neither OS/Software support nor a DirectX11 capable graphics driver for ME/98. First Nvidia graphics cards with DX11 support come with GeForce 400 series. Direct2D requires Direct3D 11 compositing. There is no workaround. Common issues: * It is becoming more and more common that some web pages no longer open. For this reason an user agent switcher addon like User-Agent Switcher 0.7.3.1 (Firefox 1.0 - 56*) is increasingly important. Certificates may also have expired. The cert file is nssckbi.dll (NSS Builtin Trusted Root CAs). Replace the file by a newer one of Firefox 52 or higher. * Sound/audio doesn't work with vxd sound drivers (see topic). Use a WDM driver. The support for vxd sound drivers has been removed with version 15. Issues all versions 24 - 52 and forks on ME/98SE: * Adding bookmarks doesn't work (also the popup - dialog window doesn't occur). Recently visited addresses aren't saved. Partial solutions: The History and the Bookmarks created on XP+ can be used on ME/98. Copy the file places.sqlite of your Firefox profile on XP+ into the profile folder of Firefox on ME/98. And there is the bookmark extension PlainOldFavorites. * Firefox crashes with Adobe Flash plug-in activated. Make sure that this plugin is disabled. If it is still needed, deactivate the plugin container: dom.ipc.plugins.enabled;false and dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs;-1. The boolean "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled" has been removed with version 43. * Own fonts of pages can be blurred or unreadable. Recommended: Uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts". Tools > Options > Content > Advanced * The popups for installing addons, saving passwords and such have big black lines around them. * The button on the download popup "open containing folder" has no function. * Printing doesn't work. * Squares and boxes instead of icons: Install suitable fonts - Awesomefont (version 4.7 tested) for this Site and and see Workaround Possible setting (You can even see the "search magnifier" and the "Rate stars"): browser.display.use_document_fonts;1 gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled;false Note, older versions, like 4.7, have recently been removed from GitHub, but are available on archive.org or fontawesome.com/versions. * Last character of the URL in address bar is missing - The search bar can also be affected: Different solutions are possible. * Possible: Second process "Explorer" remains after close. Open the Taskmanager and close the lower (second) "Explorer" process. * Cookies may not be saved correctly and aren't recognised after browser restart. There is no workaround. * Download list in Library is empty after browser restart. * Set Firefox as default browser: Start=>Run > ...\uninstall\helper /SetAsDefaultAppGlobal Install version: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppGlobal Portable version e.g.: H:\Programme\Firefox\52.9.1\App\Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe /SetAsDefaultAppGlobal Note, that the used profile isn't the portable one initially. Usually "C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles", if not changed. * NewTabPage doesn't work. You can set an url with an extension like ClassicThemeRestorer or newtab.url or others. FF49 - 52.9 and forks: * Slipped letters. Open about:memory and press "Minimise memory usage". The addon FreeMemoryButton allows to minimise memory with one click only. Mypal 28/29 and NewMoon 27/28: * Input in address bar doesn't work on second browser start anymore and Search Engine List is empty. Problem solving: With the first run you can remove search engines you don't want from the Search Engine Manager list and then set the search.json file in the profile folder quickly to read only. After that add your favorite engines and set a Home Page. Restart FF and check the functionality. If the first attempt fails, delete "search.json" and "searchplugins", restore the original state (Restore Default Search Engines ...) and try it once more. If you despair, delete (or rename) search.json , create an empty text file, rename it to search.json and set it to read-only before you start the browser. Mypal 28/29: * Low GDI resources - Possible problems with programs starting/running at the same time. Open about:memory and press "Minimise memory usage". The addon FreeMemoryButton allows to minimise memory with one click only. * Sometimes I can't close Tabs after a while. Restart Mypal when it annoys. * Sometimes - Error in Xul (browser restart required) Serpent/Newmoon/Iceape 20250621: * Additional issues due to Sqlite lib update 3.50.1. A Release up to 20250531 might be the better choice. Spoiler - issues FF 24 - 51 on ME/98: All significant issues should be ascertained. Other settings: * FF24 - 26: "security.tls.version.max" should be set to 3 (TLS 1.2 enabled). TLS 1.2 is enabled since version 27 by default. * Youtube: Note - The button "Remind Me Later" on request page for Browser update doesn't work anymore. This means that youtube no longer works. Now also version 52 and Mypal 29.3 are affected. One solution is to change the useragent (Firefox 68 or higher). Or you can use RT's forks like Serpent or Newmoon anyway. Another possibility seems to be to set in options "Limit Cache to MB of space" to 0. This disables disk caching. FF33 - 35: Set "media.mediasource.enabled" to true. (probably obsolete) It's possible to enable "media.mediasource.enabled" on lower versions, but it's quite likely useless. FF42: Set "media.mediasource.webm.enabled" to true. (probably obsolete) It should run on FF43 and higher by default. In case the player doesn't run on FF43+, set "media.mediasource.webm.enabled" to true, too. (probably obsolete) Settings not needed, but interesting - matter of taste: * "browser.tabs.onTop" => false to move the Tabs toolbar below other toolbars (FF24/27). FF 29 and higher: You can move the browser tabs with the extension ClassicThemeRestorer. * "browser.search.showOneOffButtons" => false to restore Firefox's classic search where you could see the favicon for the current search engine (FF33 - 42). However, the new search should be a bit faster. * "browser.urlbar.trimURLs" set to false to see protocol / scheme in URL (http/https...) * "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab" => false avoids browser exit and can show the homepage Recommendation for testing: Use portable versions or create different profiles for the installed. In the second case call the Profile Manager (Start > Run > ..../firefox.exe -P) or open "about:profiles" (Firefox 46+ only) and start the Profile Wizard. A note about my test environment: All my observations, tests, and findings were on real machines and not on a VM. All processors (Intel) meet SSE2 or higher and memory sizes are 2 and 3.5 GB RAM. The graphics cards are NV GF7800GT, NV GF7900GS, NV GF6600GT(AGP) and NV GF5900XT(AGP). And my OS is Windows Millennium. Recommended versions for use on ME/98: Update cert file nssckbi.dll by a newer one of Firefox 52.9 or higher For troubleshooting see issues KernelEx Core Updates only: Version 27.0.1 (Tab bar glitch easy to solve) or better Improved 31.8esr CPU Instruction Set SSE (Pentium 3 / AthlonXP) only systems: KernelEx Core Updates and some dll files required Version 45.9esr or 48.0.2 CPU Instruction Set SSE 2 and higher (Pentium 4 / Athlon64 and newer) systems: Note additional requirements Version 52.9

Not exactly a close analogue, but do you have uBlock-for-firefox-legacy installed? This extension should take care of a lot of these issues when you have the "uBlock filters – Annoyances" list enabled (and try "AdGuard Annoyances" as well). If you encounter a site where it doesn't work, you can just open an issue at: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin. (you should mention that you're using the Legacy version and hope that someone will answer) P.S. Don't use together with Pale Moon's ad blocker!

That certainly used to happen in the days when we were still getting .NET updates. There are two optimisation services on my machine, one of which was added when .NET 4.0 was installed, and at that point the other one was disabled. After almost every update, the service would run for quite some time, and then stop. It then wouldn't run again. And yes, it was a bit of a resource hog while it was running! I always just let it complete. On a new installation I would expect the optimisation service(s) to run for a time to do their work, but they certainly shouldn't be running all the time. Something is wrong if that's the case.

I remember that happening to me in the past before, about the stupid .NET runtime stuff, sometimes i'd have 100% CPU constantly from "something" and the hard drive "grinding" like crazy nonstop ...and it was most certainly this ".net optimize" thing causing the hard drive to never stop.... just disabling those .net things in the services stuff stopped it for good, never been a problem ever since. This was many many years ago though. And yea i always look at process explorer much more often than plain regular windows task manager. you can simply "hover your mouse" over all those svchosts.exe's and it'll show you exactly which services are running under each one. one of those will be the stupid .net stuff.

(offtopic) For your sister; have a look at this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind/

About your 'problems': USB MS-DOS drivers are designed in this way. I am not aware of any 'hot-pluggable' versions. So there is no 'fix', there is no 'problem'.

New build of post-deprecated Serpent/moebius for XP! * Notice: This repo will not be built on regular schedule, and changes are experimental as usual. ** Current moebius patch level should be on par with 52.9, but some security patches can not be applied/ported due to source milestone differences between versions. Test binary: Win32 http://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win32-git-20210605-8a0351d97-xpmod.7z Win64 http://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20210605-8a0351d97-xpmod.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55 Repo changes: - import certdata changes from NSS upstream: Bug 1692094 - Turn off Websites Trust Bit for 'Chambers of Commerce Root - 2008' and 'Global Chambersign Root - 2008'. r=KathleenWilson Bug 1687822 - Turn off Websites trust bit for the “Staat der Nederlanden Root CA - G3” root cert in NSS. r=KathleenWilson Bug 1686854 - Remove GeoTrust PCA-G2 and VeriSign Universal root certs from NSS. r=KathleenWilson Bug 1683738 - Add AC RAIZ FNMT-RCM SERVIDORES SEGUROS root cert to NSS. r=KathleenWilson Bug 1693173 - Add GlobalSign R45, E45, R46, and E46 root certs to NSS. r=KathleenWilson Bug 1618407 - Symantec root certs - Set CKA_NSS_EMAIL_DISTRUST_AFTER. r=kjacobs Bug 1692094 - Set email distrust after to 21-03-01 for Camerfirma's 'Chambers of Commerce' and 'Global Chambersign' roots. r=KathleenWilson (99f85ede5) - update NSS builtin certstore to May 2021 version from mozilla upstream. (6b3c7bf88) - import change from tenfourfox: - closes #644: update TLDs, pins, HSTS, M1612116 (80ab2a713) (8a0351d97)

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210605-e29e57e-uxp-7f6f1c664-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20210605-e29e57e-uxp-7f6f1c664-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210605-e29e57e-uxp-7f6f1c664-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.3a1.win32-git-20210605-411f285e0-uxp-7f6f1c664-xpmod.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.3a1.win32-git-20210605-411f285e0-uxp-7f6f1c664-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.3a1.win64-git-20210605-411f285e0-uxp-7f6f1c664-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Revert "Issue #21 - Remove TelemertyVFS" (349346d0b) - Issue #1772 - Stop using legacy code page conversion for file paths on Linux. (c921ad59d) - Issue #1774 - Make menulist-button visible again in gtk3 (0a0830ba8) - Merge pull request 'Issue #1774 - Make menulist-button visible again in gtk3' (#1775) from jobbautista9/UXP:master into master (27e7b312a) - Revert "Issue #1774 - Make menulist-button visible again in gtk3" (6272d48e8) - Issue #1774 - Add metrics to the editable menulist-button for GTK3 (42cf1ad41) - [toolkit] Exclude printer spew from troubleshooting information. (ce71c0fe3) - [js] Fix invalid early return in BaselineFrame::trace. (9acd98298) - [js] Fix porting typo (7f6f1c664) No official Basilisk changes since my last build. Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - Back-end branch pointer update. (c9f73ec3f) - Rename "Web Developer" menu entries to "Developer Tools" (29908be27) - Issue #1870 - Add try/catch and console logging for failing autocomplete popup. (411f285e0) My changes since my last build: - skipped "Rename "Web Developer" menu entries to "Developer Tools" (29908be27)" - update NSS builtin certstore to May 2021 version from mozilla upstream. (6026e19d2)

(offtopic) There is still the preference "browser.menu.showViewImageInfo", which you can set to "true". And the interface can be changed with userChrome.css and userContent.css. See e.g. : https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix. (adds back icons to the "hamburger menu" as well) Screenshot: