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All-new StartIsBack(name to be determined) for Windows 11 is available for beta testing https://startisback.com/tbd Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

Workaround for Imgur, visit https://imgur.com/beta/disable to opt out of the beta program. Will break again unless support for at least navigator.credentials is added to the browser and the beta goes stable.

AGREED! It does get annoying to always, and I do mean ALWAYS, search through forums dedicated to MICROSOFT TWEAKS AND FIXES (not referring to MSFN, all DIY web sites have this nuance) in order to track down a fix or tweak for a various issue here or there and ALWAYS find some Linux Kid post "switch to Linux". USELESS to the conversation! But then again, maybe this post is useless also, lol.

Yup, it imports them as JPEG with 85% quality. I didn't find whether there was any reason for this. Windows 8 added ability to set background per-monitor and PNG format support and AFAIK this one doesn't get further compressed or converted to JPEG. Windows 10 added JPEGImportQuality setting in registry (must be manually created), so at least compression can be disabled this way. One is better off with a 3rd party tool. I personally let Actual Window Manager manage desktop wallpapers, which also addresses lack of native ability to set background per-monitor.

Well in about a week and a half, Patch Tuesday arrives sans any updates for Windows 8 (as support ran out for the OS on the 12th of January). So after running System Restore, I will be running WSUS Offline and downloading February's updates for Server 2012. I'll check the bulletins for each patch and see which of the patches do not relate to server-specific code, and attempt running those. If my system updates successfully, great. I have unofficial support. If not and my system barfs, then I'll return to the last restore point. Then I'll decide if I stay with Windows 8, or go back to Windows Vista for another year (after all, my taxes will be done and I won't need any newer OS for another year.) I'll keep you posted on what happens. I may need to patch/edit the update.inf file somehow, but I'm not sure yet. This will be the first time that a Windows NT 6x based OS runs out of support, to try this experiment, so I'm eager to see what happens. Here's Greenhillmaniacs Repository of Server 2012 Patches that are Suitable for Windows 8 https://mega.nz/#F!ExhDEbDA!pUhzXKVp5-hgzvylW_btfQ

Hello guys! I found 2 Chromium browsers that work in Vista. The bad, is that they do not stand extensions, but ... well! Beaker Browser: Chrome 87 https://filehippo.com/download_beaker-browswer/ They must unzip it and then execute it directly, since if you try to install, it says it requires Windows 7 or higher ... Briskbard (Portable): Chrome 92! https://www.filehorse.com/download-briskbard/

WinNTSetup 5.0 Beta 2 - fixed drive combo not updated after run diskpart script - fixed drive combo not showing drive letter from DefineDosDevice - fixed drive combo on classic selection - new dikspart GUI with selectable disk and warn dialog - ini option nodownload added - command line source accepts wildcard

That sucks. If I had to guess it would be that WB skin's buttons are mostly images. Probably you need custom button images, etc to match your desired upscaling resolution. But I have zero idea on how to make WB skins, though WB has a built-in tool to create skins. Maybe someone on WB forums has a work around, I've found several fixes there

Have you tried some of the recommendations of the following pages? https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95290?hl=en https://www.askvg.com/fix-blurry-text-and-font-display-problems-in-google-chrome/ https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/9548011/blurry-font?hl=en --> See the comment of "Rob Harvey" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46535842/why-do-fonts-appear-jagged-in-chrome In chrome://flags/ there are also the "Enable pixel canvas recording" and "Font Access APIs" options. Some flags mentioned by some comments do not appear on newer versions of Chromium. Cheers.

what is that "standards thing". I have not heard from it. Every company claims to be standard but in reality all abuses their market power in name of standards. As someone who needs work multiplatform "standards" causes support hell. Only real web standard was XHTML

New regular/weekly KM-Goanna release: https://o.rthost.win/kmeleon/KM76.4.4-Goanna-20210828.7z Changelog: Out-of-tree changes: * update Goanna3 to git 520d6b706...be0dbe88f: - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1185997 - Split referrer tests to avoid intermittent timeouts. r=RyanVM (976fb981a) - Bug 1175736 - Add iframe referrer attribute tests. r=ckerschb, r=baku (f22da1340) - Bug 1184781 - additional referrer tests - redirect. r=christophkerschbaumer (49f1aaea0) - Bug 1186544 - A better test suite for StructuredCloneAlgorithm, r=smaug (d94f76a45) - Bug 1167690 - Part 5: Add tests for plugin audio channel integration; r=baku (26931ea9d) - Bug 1144631 - Make FTP with auth prompts work in e10s. r=billm/dragana (e69f9f5e0) - Bug 1179255 - (fatal) Assertion failure: aRequest == mCancelable, at netwerk/protocol/websocket/WebSocketChannel.cpp:2766, r=mcmanus (e1e3d6799) - Bug 1024056 - Simple ASCII lexical analyzer. r=nfroyd (dc67ec784) (ac77268e0) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1189369, part 1 - Remove trailing whitespace from some nsNavHistory* files. r=mak (317dd5937) - Bug 1074416 - Don't AddRef or Release nav history result observers during CC traversal. r=smaug (2ce1e8cc6) - Bug 1189369, part 2 - Don't implicitly convert nsMaybeWeakPtr to an nsCOMPtr. r=mak (c4c3261e5) - Bug 1189369, part 3 - Inline nsMaybeWeakPtr_base. r=mak (efdb4fd76) - Bug 1189369, part 4 - Get rid of some old style QIs from nsMaybeWeakPtrArray. r=mak (fa534f76c) - Bug 1189369, part 5 - Use the nice cycle collector macro template for nsNavHistoryResult. r=mak (f1fafbdc9) - Bug 1189369, part 6 - Inline AppendWeakElement and RemoveWeakElement. r=mak (514efe9f8) - Bug 1189369, part 7 - Use nicer nsTArray functions in nsMaybeWeakPtrArray. r=mak (38384b1a1) - Bug 1189369, part 8 - Clean up some minor style issues in nsMaybeWeakPtr.h. r=mak (3f37712f9) - Bug 1189369, part 9 - Use early return in nsMaybeWeakPtr<T>::GetValue(). r=mak (5606a69c5) - Bug 1180498 - Tolerate a different major libGL.so on NetBSD as well r=jgilbert (4f7c00f01) - pointer style (44d4789bd) - Bug 1182428 - Refactor bytecode compilation r=luke (790c13aa2) - Bug 1163851 - Pass the correct |InHandling| argument when parsing the initializer in a LexicalDeclaration in a for-in loop. r=efaust (e6b891d53) - reapply Bug 1163851 - Remove the remaining two tests of |pc->parsingForInit| (c59d57225) - Bug 1180498 - Tolerate a different major libGL.so on NetBSD as well r=jgilbert (9463d2aea) - Bug 1189282 - Refactor parser BindData class r=efaust (4dd897771) - Bug 1179063 - Hook up the static scope chain in the Parser and replace SharedContext walking with scope walking. (r=efaust) (70b8fdd1e) (5cdc3234f) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1186724 - Make BytecodeEmitter::emit2 take a uint8_t instead of a jsbtyecode; r=arai (0520b800d) - Bug 1179063 - Simplify enclosingStaticScope and rename to innermostStaticScope in BCE. (r=efaust) (9b80db494) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: remove useless pn_index. (r=me) (8c0599c32) - Bug 1155618 - Fix some more places we don't report OOM properly r=jandem (4c45f314a) - Bug 1165486 - Debug function to dump static scope chain of scripts. (r=efaust) (3de10d2bf) - Bug 1191177 - Kill UpvarCookie. (r=efaust) (373fe90f3) - Bug 1191177 - Kill staticLevel. (r=efaust) (a8734595e) (be0dbe88f) * Notice: the changelog above may not always applicable to XULRunner code which K-Meleon uses. A goanna3 source tree that has kmeleon adaption patch applied is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27/tree/kmeleon76

New NewMoon 27 Build! 32bit https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win32-git-20210828-be0dbe88f-xpmod.7z 32bit SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win32-git-20210828-be0dbe88f-xpmod-sse.7z 32bit noSSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win32-git-20210828-be0dbe88f-xpmod-ia32.7z 64bit https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.10.0.win64-git-20210828-be0dbe88f-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 1185997 - Split referrer tests to avoid intermittent timeouts. r=RyanVM (976fb981a) - Bug 1175736 - Add iframe referrer attribute tests. r=ckerschb, r=baku (f22da1340) - Bug 1184781 - additional referrer tests - redirect. r=christophkerschbaumer (49f1aaea0) - Bug 1186544 - A better test suite for StructuredCloneAlgorithm, r=smaug (d94f76a45) - Bug 1167690 - Part 5: Add tests for plugin audio channel integration; r=baku (26931ea9d) - Bug 1144631 - Make FTP with auth prompts work in e10s. r=billm/dragana (e69f9f5e0) - Bug 1179255 - (fatal) Assertion failure: aRequest == mCancelable, at netwerk/protocol/websocket/WebSocketChannel.cpp:2766, r=mcmanus (e1e3d6799) - Bug 1024056 - Simple ASCII lexical analyzer. r=nfroyd (dc67ec784) (ac77268e0) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1189369, part 1 - Remove trailing whitespace from some nsNavHistory* files. r=mak (317dd5937) - Bug 1074416 - Don't AddRef or Release nav history result observers during CC traversal. r=smaug (2ce1e8cc6) - Bug 1189369, part 2 - Don't implicitly convert nsMaybeWeakPtr to an nsCOMPtr. r=mak (c4c3261e5) - Bug 1189369, part 3 - Inline nsMaybeWeakPtr_base. r=mak (efdb4fd76) - Bug 1189369, part 4 - Get rid of some old style QIs from nsMaybeWeakPtrArray. r=mak (fa534f76c) - Bug 1189369, part 5 - Use the nice cycle collector macro template for nsNavHistoryResult. r=mak (f1fafbdc9) - Bug 1189369, part 6 - Inline AppendWeakElement and RemoveWeakElement. r=mak (514efe9f8) - Bug 1189369, part 7 - Use nicer nsTArray functions in nsMaybeWeakPtrArray. r=mak (38384b1a1) - Bug 1189369, part 8 - Clean up some minor style issues in nsMaybeWeakPtr.h. r=mak (3f37712f9) - Bug 1189369, part 9 - Use early return in nsMaybeWeakPtr<T>::GetValue(). r=mak (5606a69c5) - Bug 1180498 - Tolerate a different major libGL.so on NetBSD as well r=jgilbert (4f7c00f01) - pointer style (44d4789bd) - Bug 1182428 - Refactor bytecode compilation r=luke (790c13aa2) - Bug 1163851 - Pass the correct |InHandling| argument when parsing the initializer in a LexicalDeclaration in a for-in loop. r=efaust (e6b891d53) - reapply Bug 1163851 - Remove the remaining two tests of |pc->parsingForInit| (c59d57225) - Bug 1180498 - Tolerate a different major libGL.so on NetBSD as well r=jgilbert (9463d2aea) - Bug 1189282 - Refactor parser BindData class r=efaust (4dd897771) - Bug 1179063 - Hook up the static scope chain in the Parser and replace SharedContext walking with scope walking. (r=efaust) (70b8fdd1e) (5cdc3234f) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1186724 - Make BytecodeEmitter::emit2 take a uint8_t instead of a jsbtyecode; r=arai (0520b800d) - Bug 1179063 - Simplify enclosingStaticScope and rename to innermostStaticScope in BCE. (r=efaust) (9b80db494) - Bug 1179063 - Cleanup: remove useless pn_index. (r=me) (8c0599c32) - Bug 1155618 - Fix some more places we don't report OOM properly r=jandem (4c45f314a) - Bug 1165486 - Debug function to dump static scope chain of scripts. (r=efaust) (3de10d2bf) - Bug 1191177 - Kill UpvarCookie. (r=efaust) (373fe90f3) - Bug 1191177 - Kill staticLevel. (r=efaust) (a8734595e) (be0dbe88f)