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New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210814-f94c0da-uxp-741fd8b61-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20210814-f94c0da-uxp-741fd8b61-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-20210814-f94c0da-uxp-741fd8b61-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-28.10.4a1.win32-git-20210814-857caec4e-uxp-741fd8b61-xpmod.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.4a1.win32-git-20210814-857caec4e-uxp-741fd8b61-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.4a1.win64-git-20210814-857caec4e-uxp-741fd8b61-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #1679 - Part 3: Make everything build on supported compilers. (979c60bc7) - Issue #1679 - Part4: Clean up commented-out/WIP code. (66cd46d9b) - Issue #1675 - Move regexp to new-regexp to make bz porting simpler. (4932924d6) - [network] Use a proof of lock everywhere in cache v2. (61a3331fe) - [DOM/NPAPI] Defer loading object when setting attribute. (ca1a84cb9) - [MFBT] Convert debug asserts to early returns for situations that should never occur. (fa4900262) - [DOM] Be more explicit about the WorkerPrivate self-reference. (fe2ea0ce8) - Issue #1806 - Update libcubeb (741fd8b61) No official Basilisk changes since my last build. Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - Issue #1876 - Remove FUEL (1da99f987) - Merge pull request 'Remove FUEL' (#1877) from biopsin/Pale-Moon:fuel into master (357bda888) - Back-end branch pointer update. (857caec4e) My changes since my last build: - Skipped "Issue #1806 - Update libcubeb (741fd8b61)" - Skipped "Issue #1876 - Remove FUEL (1da99f987)"

All A while ago I discovered that Amazon Prime Video stopped working on Windows XP. Attempting to open it in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox fails with "Unsupported Operating System." Additionally, spoofing the browser as Firefox 53 or newer on XP will then tell you that Firefox is missing a DRM component. However, today I discovered that Amazon Prime Video works perfectly in SeaMonkey on Windows XP. Using SeaMonkey forces Amazon to use Silverlight, and it works flawlessly! This is very surprising to me since Silverlight has been mostly deprecated across the web. I'm surprised Amazon Prime Video is compatible with it. To download Silverlight 5.1.50907 (the final release), you can download it from my FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/Silverlight5.1.50907.exe To download Sea Monkey 2.49.4, you can download the full version on my FTP here: http://sdfox7.com/xp/sp3/EOL/SeaMonkey Setup 2.49.4.exe

Don't hold your breath.

Palemoon is slowly going firefox way due hostitle developer and recent stupid decisions example blocking addons like noscript since "security issues" or other stupid reason like mozilla, blocking XP support and trying make everyone believe palemoon cannot run on XP or vista. List would go on for miles but latest bad decision killing legacy ff addon support, for no good reason. But luckily like any foss software if someone takes undesirable path fork will appear without those issues. For Windows newmoon and also Mypal which address those issues. For linux there webbrowser that is palemoon without antifeatures. But otherwise it code is very good and it is more like what firefox used to be back in day before turning it bloat. I hope moonchild devs would stop being stupid on some decisions. it is due chrome optimised javascript. I generally browser very minimal amount of web these days mostly js blocked and if site refuses show me few text line without js I got no reason visit it. Some sites actually uses javascript to display text instead of using normal HTML I do not know from android side (nokia 6110 cannot run firefox ) but I used to have dualboot on my machine too. What I did was using profile manager made shared drive with custom profile accessible by both operating systems. That way I was able "sync" data between profiles. Of course that means need same browser on both sides, but that is one option. Not sure if can sync between New Moon and firefox somehow due code different.

No tak bywa Jak chcesz mogę ci podesłać wersję testową prv Pozdrawiam

No biggie. It's not a "competition" and I don't really plan on releasing additional releases. We really don't have enough users to warrant all of the time required on my end.

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-20210814-960bdb954-xpmod.7z Win64 http://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk55-win64-git-20210814-960bdb954-xpmod.7z repo: https://github.com/roytam1/basilisk55 Repo changes: - cubeb_winmm.c overflow fix by mixit@MSFN, Thanks! This should fix the famous 23m18s freeze bug for audio/video playback. (6fd60b08f) - import change from tenfourfox: - closes #646: M1720568 M1720031 M1666184 M1722204 +TLDs HSTS (0f33324c8) (960bdb954)

New NewMoon 27 Build! 32bit https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win32-git-20210814-36ba25688-xpmod.7z 32bit SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win32-git-20210814-36ba25688-xpmod-sse.7z 32bit noSSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win32-git-20210814-36ba25688-xpmod-ia32.7z 64bit https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win64-git-20210814-36ba25688-xpmod.7z source repo: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27 repo changes since my last build: - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1182963 - Use nsTHashTable::Iterator in FrameLayerBuilder. r=roc,njn Get rid of EnumerateEntries by inlining those enumerate functions. Also move gPaintedDisplayItemLayerUserData, gColorLayerUserData, etc. to the front of the file since LayerManagerData::Dump() references to one of them. (4215d86e0) - Bug 1182744 - Make MaskLayerImageKey::mLayerCount and its mutators private. r=dholbert (ae7381aee) - Bug 1182963 - Use nsTHashTable::Iterator in MaskLayerImageCache. r=njn (60770935a) - Bug 1182963 - Use nsTHashTable::Iterator in nsRefreshDriver. r=njn (311c72284) - Bug 1182963 - Use nsTHashTable::Iterator in nsPresShell. r=njn (ef8af9c5b) - Bug 1182963 - Use nsTHashTable::Iterator in nsPresContext. r=njn (e248de8c8) - Bug 1182973 - Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in dom/bindings/. r=bz. Changing the return type of Enumerator from PLDHashOperator to void -- possible because the only such functions always return PL_DHASH_NEXT -- is a double-win here. (68ad67b8c) - Bug 1182961 (part 1, attempt 2) - Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in CacheIndex. r=michal. (e84f52fdf) - Bug 1182961 (part 3, attempt 2) - Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in CacheIndex. r=michal. (b099c48a5) - Bug 1182961 (part 2, attempt 2) - Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in CacheIndex. r=michal. (ffccf9c18) - Bug 1182975 - Part 1: Use early return consistently when iterating over mBoundContentSet. r=wchen (8f7d57782) - Bug 1182975 - Part 2: Convert EnumRuleProcessors to use an iterator. r=wchen (7f36b3706) - Bug 1182975 - Part 3: Convert the rest of the uses of EnumerateEntries in nsBindingManager to Iterator(). r=wchen (c3caecad2) - Bug 1183158 - Part 1: Get rid of RegistrationEnumerator; r=baku (bdadc7d7b) - Bug 1183158 - Part 2: Get rid of SoftUpdateEnumerator; r=baku (d0133d02e) - Bug 1183158 - Part 3: Get rid of UnregisterEnumerator; r=baku (48e1e3396) - Bug 1183158 - Part 4: Get rid of RemoveEnumerator; r=baku (4ce903c6a) - Bug 1183158 - Part 5: Get rid of RemoveAllEnumerator; r=baku (9df9eea73) (c99a51f5f) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1182979 - Part 1: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in PluginInstanceChild. r=jimm (a3105fe02) - Bug 1182979 - Part 2: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in PluginScriptableObjectChild. r=jimm (301bd8d3c) - Bug 1182979 - Part 3: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in GMPTimerParent. r=cpearce (e35ef2491) - Bug 1182979 - Part 4: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in MediaShutdownManager. r=cpearce (22dcbe9cd) - Bug 1186780: Replace EnumerateRead with new iterators in cycle collection code. r=mccr8 (263c26445) - Bug 1182980 - Part 1: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in FragmentOrElement. r=khuey (ca3c5dfb5) - Bug 1182980 - Part 2: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in nsRange. r=khuey (5b43675ac) - Bug 1182980 - Part 3: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in nsWindowRoot. r=khuey (f4d8b2a4b) - Bug 1182980 - Part 4: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in nsWindowMemoryReporter::UnlinkGhostWindows. r=khuey (b01946afe) - Bug 1182980 - Part 5: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in nsWindowMemoryReporter::CollectReports. r=khuey (336538295) - Bug 1182980 - Part 6: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in ShadowRoot. r=khuey (d59bf3da0) - Bug 1182980 - Part 7: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in nsIdentifierMapEntry::FireChangeCallbacks. r=khuey (53f3868d3) - Bug 1182980 - Part 8: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in nsIDocument::EnumerateActivityObservers. r=khuey (868eef2c2) - Bug 1182980 - Part 9: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in rest of nsDocument. r=khuey (797b75fb8) - Bug 1182980 - Part 10: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in DisconnectEventTargetObjects. r=khuey (37aee02c8) - Bug 1182980 - Part 11: Use nsTHashtable::Iterator in nsGlobalWindow::AddSizeOfIncludingThis. r=khuey (a75ffd411) (c17103010) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1127188 - Close() AudioContext when Freeing inner window object. r=ehsan (2d5afa836) - Bug 1127188 - Null-check the destination in AudioContext::Close, since it can now be called after the graph is dead. r=ehsan (19251d9cb) - Bug 1180355 - Initialize the AudioChannelAgent after AudioContext has gained a stable refcount; r=baku (f7bef7ff2) - Bug 1166910 - Add tests for referrer attribute for img tag. r=ckerschb, r=hsivonen (3bdc6569f) - Bug 1180539 - Correctly dispatch media-playback notifications when an AudioContext is closed/suspended/resumed; r=baku (e77c02c42) - Bug 1183044 - Properly mute AudioContext when there's an attempt to mute it before it has a destination. r=ehsan (244c062a1) (cb2341bf7) - import DNS and HSTS from tenfourfox (as of rev 0f33324c8) (36ba25688)

New build of BOC/UXP for XP! Test binary: MailNews Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/mailnews.win32-20210814-355db4de-uxp-741fd8b61-xpmod.7z BNavigator Win32 https://o.rthost.win/boc-uxp/bnavigator.win32-20210814-355db4de-uxp-741fd8b61-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/boc-uxp/tree/custom-older * Notice: the profile prefix (i.e. parent folder names) are also changed since 2020-08-15 build, you may rename their names before using new binaries when updating from builds before 2020-08-15. -- New build of HBL-UXP for XP! Test binary: IceDove-UXP(mail) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/icedove.win32-20210814-id-f0915f3-uxp-741fd8b61-xpmod.7z IceApe-UXP(suite) https://o.rthost.win/hbl-uxp/iceape.win32-20210814-id-f0915f3-ia-c642e3c-uxp-741fd8b61-xpmod.7z source repo (excluding UXP): https://github.com/roytam1/icedove-uxp/tree/winbuild https://github.com/roytam1/iceape-uxp/tree/winbuild for UXP changes please see above.

I went through Task Scheduler and disabled stuff that's firing on regular basis and their description didn't strike me as something that would be needed for things I expect to work to work and installed some useful software for tweaking/extending usability: Open-Shell (good old start menu, more configurable than any MS implementation and the package comes with certain tweaks for Explorer/Internet Explorer) SecureUxTheme (to be able to load unofficial themes) Aero Glass (adds transparency with blur to window frames, also more configurable than Windows 7 implementation, currently doesn't work with latest Win10 iterations) QTTabBar (tabs for Explorer with some extras) OldNewExplorer (shell extension with certain tweaks for Explorer) Link Shell Extension (displays NTFS hard links, symbolic links, directory junctions... in Explorer with overlaid icons and adds commands to work with them to context menus) 7+ Taskbar Tweaker (tweak application for taskbar) T-Clock Redux (customizable taskbar clock with extras) Regarding services, I only disabled Connected User Experiences and Telemetry and AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC) services. I initially left the latter enabled, but it crapped out after some time when the system wasn't rebooted for weeks (endless grinding on the disk, more specifically the page file). I modified policies regarding auto-updates, turned off lock screen, re-enabled showing of crash dialog if application crashes, disabled blurring of logon screen background, OneDrive and Windows Defender. There were also some tweaks in registry there and there, I remember enabling the LastActiveClick and messing with keys at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers. Even though the limit of shell icon overlays is supposed to be 15 (relevant blog post by Raymond Chen) and I have 13 of those, the ones put there by Link Shell Extension just didn't work until I renamed them in a way that they appear first alphabetically, so they have the priority. MS actually put seven entries for OneDrive there and renamed them by adding space in the name, so they had the priority. I was unable to get Open-Shell's Classic Explorer component to display the share icon for shared files, I corrected %windir%\system32\images.dll,164 to %windir%\systemresources\imageres.dll.mun,164 in Classic Explorer settings on File pane tab (most icons were relocated since version Win10 1903), appropriately renamed ShareOverlay registry key in the previously mentioned ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers key, but it just won't budge. Additional note (later edit): So this issue is connected to too much overlays or maybe even glitches in existing registered overlays. If I get rid of OneDrive entries (or just take away permissions to read those keys), the problem disappears. If OneDrive integration matters, then I don't know what one could do to have all functionality, plus there's also other software out there that adds icon overlays. When I messed with Win10 1803 initially, I resorted to deleting OneDrive entries because Link Shell Extension's overlays didn't work. Some time later, it seemed renaming was enough, though I didn't pay attention to share overlays specifically until recently. On my laptop, I also added Windows 7's Manage Wireless Networks to Control Panel. I also add the following DLLs (these deal with older games): Modified (picture guide - OllyDbg needed) d3d8.dll from Win10 1803 (Build 17134) - they removed classic fullscreen mode from D3D8 in newer versions and the optimized fullscreen mode was only ever implemented in D3D9+ - the modified DLL is reportedly still functional on Win10 2004 - so you get back the performance, but without additional perks of optimized fullscreen mode. Some DLLs from WinXP SP3: d3drm.dll - Direct3D Retained Mode DLL - some games and demos use it, not included since Vista. dmscript.dll - because DirectMusic scripting functionality is apparently bugged since Vista. dx7vb.dll - DirectX 7 runtime for Visual Basic applications (should be registered with regsvr32) dx8vb.dll - DirectX 8 runtime for Visual Basic applications (should be registered with regsvr32) dxmasf.dll - Windows Media Source Filter, should be registered with regsvr32, original file is a stub, has dependencies: drmclien.dll - DRM Client DLL strmdll.dll - Windows Media Services Streamer Dll - this DLL won't run out-of-the-box since Windows 10 1809 because they removed support for IOCTL_TCP_QUERY_INFORMATION_EX and the DLL doesn't handle it gracefully. There's a patched version available on VOGONS, there could be issues if some application out there that uses the DLL in certain way makes said feature a requirement. However, older DLL from older DirectX package, (probably best to take the other 2 as well) doesn't have this dependency. I don't remember which DirectX package has the newest version that doesn't have said dependency. So that more or less sums it up. I ended up on Win10 mostly because there's always something that doesn't work right regardless of what OS I use. The biggest improvement for me was memory management. I found older versions to be very aggressive when it came to paging out to disk. I would run something that consumes a bit more of memory, say 800 MB or more, then things would get swapped out and when I finished, disk would start grinding because lots of data has to be loaded back in memory, the running application would take a while to close and the whole computer to "snap out of it". Audio playing in the background is easily interrupted on Win7 by something going exclusive fullscreen, switching away from that fullscreen application, resolution switches are slower, more screen flashing in general with such transitions. Win10 is snappier in these scenarios, though it looks like Win10 specific GPU drivers are needed for the biggest effect in reducing screen flashes. So it is possible for second screen to not flash when something changes on the first. I also noticed an oddity on Win7 that happens with enabled HRTF in Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3 software (Surround checkbox) that would result in Windows' navigation start sound (it's disabled by default) to be inaudible for some reason. Not an issue on Win10. Console windows also behave better, finally they can be normally resized. In Win7, a bizarre bug appeared that causes 8x12 raster font to just disappear from available options if user isn't in session #1 (it increases each time you logon since boot) and system locale is set to Slovenian (possibly other languages as well). That's also fixed. My experiences above with Win7 apply to Win8.x as well. Clipboard history and scrolling inactive windows options, which technically just sends mouse wheel events to window under mouse cursor, not window with keyboard focus, are also good additions. At least something for which 3rd party application isn't a must anymore. It took some tinkering, lots of things could still be improved, it definitely makes least sense UI wise out-of-the-box of all Windows releases, but so far, it works well enough that I don't have the itch to switch the OS. Currently on version 1909.