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A wider assortment of 32 bit applications run, including up to Chromium ~107 and Electron applications such as Spotify (Discord's updater is buggy, apparently it's reliant on IE). Firefox goes up into the 90s. Chromium 110 x64 works. Chromium 111 x64 may work, with --no-sandbox and ChromiumFix=1 set in a osver.ini override for the application. OBS Studio 29 works, Calibre is fixed and PCSX2 1.7.3195 QT6 works, but later versions have issues. And Premiere Pro 2019 working now, which I did not expect. There are two known issues; Chromium's access to audio devices is broken. The cause was discovered and it has been fixed, but I am waiting on a fix for the second issue to include it in an update. There is an issue with userenv.dll which breaks audio on various systems. As the updates to userenv.dll are only needed for Chromium 110+, you can temporarily replace it with the original version to restore sound if it has been lost.

Read through some of the convos that happened here, and I have a lot of interesting topics. To put it flat out, I am a non-binary pansexual person. Whenever you'd tell this to someone, they'd either be heavily supportive, or extremely against it. Most of the time because they don't understand but I love being like this so much because I have never felt so free with who I want to be. Of course, I know I'm a male at biological level. But I prefer not to assign myself to that socially due to aspects of gender I dislike. I have a partner who is transgender, and while there are struggles, mostly with her body dysphoria, stuff goes pretty alright. To make it clear, I do support opposing ideas. If nobody had their opinions, then what is there in the world? However, the issue in today, is the misunderstanding of truth v. opinions. What we as a society need to know is that people will have opposing opinions, there is no doubt about that. But we also need to accept those opposing ideas and consider them. We also need to know the truth, with the truth being we are living on the planet Earth, and we are just another species sharing this planet with every other animal. We are no more powerful or weak to the rest. By nature, we are mammals. We are just like them. I keep myself socially gender neutral as I dislike the ideas that different genders are held to different standards and do not get treated equally. It disgusts me that people in this world still believe that women are just an object in your home that raises your kids and cooks' dinner for you. What is exactly the reason why anyone else who is not a women cannot do that? As well as that, pansexuality by definition is the attraction to people regardless of gender, which means to me, I don't care what gender you are. Male, female, nonbinary, etc., I really do not care because for me I find something else much more attractive- personality. Having a strong loving bond with someone you mentally like, instead of just being attracted to them. Then again, my views on gender and attraction, are still an opinion. That opinion is I support for people to be who they want to be (to a certain extent, you can't be a platypus or a whale), and support the idea of gender being less of a thing in society, which would drive more human like connections among people, in my eyes that is. I just want a world without conflict. The more I can feel that in my life, the happier I will be.

Yes, I prefer the tab label fading feature rather than elipsis as well. The WebComponents improvements are not ready, which is why they are not merged into Basilisk yet. There are bugs that are still being fixed. I generally do new releases around the same time as Pale Moon releases. My original implementation was a direct backport from Firefox 53 so it is possible that the addon behaves differently between Firefox 52 and 53. I did not check the extension since I don't use it. I plan to reimplement this feature using the same method that the Pale Moon team used (this should preserve backwards compatibility with addons). It will be togglable with a pref just like the Pale Moon feature.

I haven't tried it. In fact I am jaded about Acrobat (Reader) DC because it always sends Unicode garbage to the printer on some relatives' 8.1 machines, while all other PDF readers send the actual content to the printer. Maybe I will try later in a VM.

Yes, unfortunately. A lot has happened since you were gone, and this one is the saddest.

If you read the first pages of this topic, you will know that Ximonite is actually cooperating with win32 in this project.

For Virustotal you need to disable Web Components `dom.webcomponents.enabled;false` Older Useragents did not work for me. You can always use the old browser interface : https://www.virustotal.com/old-browsers/ By the way I am using GitHub now without palefill and it works mostly fine (just missing a couple of features), however I think there are memory leak problems. I am not sure what can be done about it.

There have been a few features that I have ported from Pale Moon to Basilisk. Sometimes changes can be directly ported and sometimes they cannot. It depends on how complicated of a change it is. Usually smaller changes are portable, where large changes are not directly portable and need to be rewritten. It also depends on what part of the browser is being changed. Some parts of the browser work the same or similar to Pale Moon, whereas other features such as tabs work differently.

Hi ; your response here has been really appreciated by me (and, I suppose, by other members who happen to be Serpent 52 users); yes, that commit being the culprit was suggested by me from the very start ... Now, here comes "my" twist : Unlike the previous reporters who ALL use TMP (or one of its forks), I don't, so I haven't experienced any major breakage myself... I, personally, prefer tab-label-fading to ellipsis (...), has always been like that ever since Mozilla Firefox 53.0+ implemented it... FWIW, Serpent 55, another browser maintained by @roytam1, has this feature as a default one, since Serpent 55 is based on moebius (aka UXP Take 1), a platform initially forked (by MCP) from a Mozilla 53.0a1 snapshot... I'm running latest St52 (which, BTW, has all the WebComponents improvements merged-in, unlike latest Basilisk) and I do like the result : I'm not a coder myself, but I believe you implemented "Fade out tab label on overflow instead of ellipsis" on Basilisk after MCP did the same with Pale Moon; however, Pale Moon uses a pre-Australis default theme, while Basilisk (hence St52) uses the Australis default theme... Is your implementation directly copied from Mozilla or a backport of MCP's code? In any case, this new feature is now there, enabled by default, in latest NM28 - @AstroSkipper, does TMP/Tab Utilities Phoenix work as expected in latest NM28, or is it broken there, too? The implementation by MCP applicable on PM (witn non-Australis) is enabled (by default) via pref "browser.tabs.fadeLabels" (also discussed in passing by previous, affected, posters); however, the implementation in dcb4e31 doesn't include such an "opt-out" (and I can confirm no such boolean pref exists by default inside St52's about:config). Since this was initially a Firefox 53.0+ feature, I "presume" TMP and the like break now because they are programmed/configured NOT to expect it in an application advertising itself as Firefox 52.0; so, perhaps, the extension(s) can be modified/fixed to accommodate this new browser feature? You know how the saying goes: Extensions extend the browser, not vice-versa... Official Basilisk v52.9.2023.03.07 has been now released, with the "feature" backed-out... @basilisk-dev and, mainly, @roytam1: Can this new feature ("Fade out tab label on overflow instead of ellipsis"), instead of being summarily axed, be restored behind a pref (I don't care whether it'd be true/false by default) in Basilisk/Serpent for those, like me, who actually prefer it? If the new code interferes with TMP (and the way to go would be for that to get fixed - if it's actually still maintained ), then it could be simply pref'ed off/disabled... Thanks to all the coders involved for making it possible to still use, in 2023, browsers that look and feel "classic" but, at the same time, allow "us" to evade the Google Chrome browser monopoly (well, in most cases ) ... Kindest regards

@roytam1 I investigated the cause of the issues reported here and on the Pale Moon forum. The issue happened in this commit https://repo.palemoon.org/Basilisk-Dev/Basilisk/commit/dcb4e31c2c47f8daf7978e801aa632853d8ef922 I am going to release updated Basilisk builds with this commit reverted. You should revert that commit and release a new build of Serpent as well.

you can't say my assumption is wrong if you have no tried AVAST with better hardware..... did you ? can you define ''low on resources'' ?

There are x86 files in the win32 folder on mega.nz, but they were last modified in 2021 I'd also like to use the extended kernel on the 32-bit version, but on the other hand it's understandable that the author probably doesn't have time to fine-tune both versions alone. If Vista x64 without an extended kernel works better for you, you can simply redirect files for specific applications. Sorry for the slip-up in the post above, the quote translated along with the rest of the page. I ask the moderator to remove it.

it is a really big loss but we need to learn to eventually move on with life (as @XPerceniol use to tell me)

Maybe , I don't read them ..

Did not know @XPerceniol left, haven't checked in here in a while. 😔

It isn't easy to say. Most people that I see around don't really care what you use. My school still has some Server 2003 systems around. I personally don't care what you use. I've gotten more preferring on modern Windows, 11 in some cases because the UI in my opinion is getting a lot more TLC than Windows 10 did. I've also moved to Edge on my personal laptop to save battery life- actually made a significant difference from Firefox.

I can confirm all the above with regards to (the modern GUI) VT site and latest St52 ; loading below link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9cd8677d185d0b8a23fe3a47eaca17332dd84ab76d6402485ecda60490da8459?nocache=1 results in an "empty" tab: ... however, the console error I get is more ominous than an unsupported web font: App did not load (Unsupported app) As mentioned by others, temporarily disabling WC allows the site (new GUI) to load/display/basically work, but at a heavy CPU tax: NB that in the above screenshot, ONLY the VT tab has been loaded, process "basilisk.exe" (not shown) is at a steady 51% CPU consumption here ...

@Rod Steel Here's the answer to your question from approximately 2 years ago:

Ok i will upload it Edit : The link above

Yep, I reverted the preference dom.webcomponents.enabled back to its default setting. Too much errors in my web console. An old, weak CPU also has advantages, though. The user notices immediately that something is getting out of hand.

Sure It is the main new feature of latest UXP engine and this is in the beta of Pale Moon. See: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=29528 for more details. I would recommend keeping it enabled. before it was disabled by default because it was too much lacking in features and not working correctly. For me disabling it worked, I am using IceApe-uxp, maybe it is different. I do have a powerful CPU though and even like that it is heavy.

Thanks for the tip! Setting dom.webcomponents.enabled to false did the trick. Does setting this preference to false have a negative impact on other functions? Rejoiced too soon! The web interface is loading completely, but a file can't be uploaded and unfortunately, this setting leads to a 100% utilisation of my CPU, palemoon.exe needs round about 93%. Therefore, no solution for me, unfortunately. Sorry to say that! I think another solution has to be found. BTW, same problem in New Moon 28. Edit: To be a bit more precise, setting dom.webcomponents.enabled to false in my testing profile of Serpent 52, the CPU load starts by 50%,. There, I was able to upload a file which leads to a 100% load on my CPU in the end. In New Moon 28, the VirusTotal interface starts with a 100% load on my CPU, and I was unable to upload my test file. And the Web Console is full of errors. Therefore, I also reported this to the issues of martok's palefill on GitHub.

Although Palefill 1.26 is installed in my Serpent 52, the interface of VirusTotal is blank after loading. As far as I can see, VirusTotal changed their font. It is now Google Sans. There doesn't seem to be a supported format for Serpent 52. Here is the output of my error console: Maybe, our font experts do have an idea how to fix that. Additionally, there seems to be more problems in Serpent 52 when loading VirusTotal. Here is the output of my web console: Anything which can be polyfilled? Cheers, Astroskipper

alright it is working! thanks for your suggestion!

By using dorando keyconfig, you can disable any shortcuts listed in its window. I installed it again for testing purpose. Look at my screenshot: The shortcut Ctrl-Shift-W has been disabled by me in Serpent 52. You can revert this by clicking the button Reset or manually at any time, of course. Hope it works for you. Cheers, AstroSkipper

The ability for toggling this preference is very much appreciated. This way, each of us can decide for ourselves what kind of tab style is to be used. Many thanks for your efforts!

Hello all! Latest version - basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230304 - does not work on https://virustotal.com Previous version - basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230211 - worked perfectly! What could be the problem? Thanks in advance.

Thanks, dorando keyconfig works great. I remap "Enter reader view" to F9 . And I know why Ctrl+Alt+R did not work: my input method have right-Alt defined, and it explained that right-Alt = Ctrl+Alt .

The ParkyTowers site lists "integrated in CN896" in the Video section. If you scroll down a bit, on the ParkyTower page, you'll find the results of "lspci". You'll have to click it to expand. While CN896 is listed in there, it is combined with two others. So you'd have to determine how he derived that it was indeed a "CN896". If he downloaded a driver for XP/XPe and the "CN879", the driver likely supports all three. For Win98, that would not be the case. There may be a chance, it is supported. I don't want to dash any hopes. But I have been unable to confirm that it has the "CN896" chipset/GPU. Also, the exact model might make a difference. With the Wyse Vx9(LE) series, I noticed some variations. Some came with DVI+ and others with only VGA. They also didn't all have the same Video chip. If you check the ParkyTower pages for the Vx0L and Vx0LE, you can see he lists the video as "VN700?". This is what he says about that: The command he used (lspci), for that output, is from Linux. The driver developed for Linux supports all three of those chipsets. That is why it is listing all three. It is more complicated than that. Maybe it supports others, but groups those three together as a set. This is a similar situation to the Laptop. If you can confirm that it is the "CN896", then the chances are better. If you can't confirm the chipset, you can email the author of ParkyTowers. He does reply to email. But if I had to bet on it, I would bet against Win9x support. Vbemp would provide support, without 3D acceleration. I've used it with multiple laptops, VGA output, and I believe DVI. For sure, the VGA from DVI+. If you don't mind me asking, what is your desired budget? A Pentium M @ 1-1.6Ghz would probably be cheap. Video with "Official" Win98 support might take some hunting. Snap, I forgot you wanted fanless. I guess the below wouldn't work. I think the Dell Inspiron 6000 has a Radeon X300. I believe drivers for Win98 exist for that. I see them on Ebay, without hard drives, for about $30. You could the get an SDcard to 2.5 IDE adapter. Might be a pain to get the adapter seated, in the laptop. There are adapters for CFcards, too. There are even mSata to 2.5 IDE kits. They are the size of a full drive and easier to seat (more expensive).

Thank you very much for your careful reading, @basilisk-dev. Much appreciated.

OT ... Probably this: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-radical-acceptance-5120614 Podcast (plays in latest St52, it's NOT DRM'ed): /OT

Much appreciated, looking forward to it ! Thanks in advance ...

I do wonder if I can just port PM changes to BK. (can't find a time for this right now since $DAYJOB is still busy these days)

Yep, I also checked this preference, and it is in its default state true.

As far as I can say, I didn't observe this issue in New Moon 28. In this browser, I use Tab Utilities Phoenix 2.1.0 with the 'multi-row tab bar' feature enabled. The version is slightly different to the original release due to some changes to its code (German language glitches were fixed by me), but I don't think that this makes any difference. Only changes to the German locale. Anyway! No breakage in New Moon 28 observed at the moment!

Hi there, I am Cockatiel, I fully love Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95, 98, ME, NT 3.x, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 80% love 7, 2008 R2, 8.0 and 2012, 8.1, 2012 R2, 50% love Windows 10 LTSB/LTSC, 2016, 2019 and 2022 and fully hate 10 and 11 My laptop specs: AMD Ryzen 5 3500U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 8, 8 GB RAM Windows 7 installed

Hi @Cockatiel, hello from Belgium and welcome to MSFN! I wish you to enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

I found a Web application that runs in MiniBrowser (Chromium 87 based) but not in 360EE v13 (Chromium 86 based): Microsoft Teams. I had to join a Teams meeting yesterday when I was working from home and didn't have any "modern" browsers handy on my Win 7 PC (I just never got around to downloading one), nor did I want to install Micro$oft's Teams app. I was about to give up and download a modern browser, but I decided to give MiniBrowser a try first since I have it on my PC for testing - and it worked! Kind of surprised to see anything where 87 is the minimum Chromium version. Obviously no real need for MiniBrowser on Win 7, but XP/Vista users might find my discovery useful.

Yeah! It's the funniest thing...all of the browsers in your examples don't have an issue with that. I have been able to overwrite just fine with those, from my tests on 7/10. For some reason it's only been 360 that was giving me problems in that regard. It's not a big deal--it's just kind of weird. What I mean is, when I go to overwrite a file in 360, instead of properly replacing the original file with the rewritten version, it creates a duplicate with a number next to it. Very strange. Mini, on the other hand, rewrites the file with no issues. Doesn't even give a prompt: it just does it! I still think 360 is great...I'm keeping Mini around because it just works more 'common-sensely' for all my daily browsing needs. The only quirk I've noticed with Mini is it doesn't seem to let me go to a link from within a tab when I use the address bar--instead, it goes to the link from within a new tab created next to it. It seems every browser has a quirk of some kind, that takes a little getting used to. But as an XP user, I'm grateful for anything we can use at this point. Definitely thinking ahead to the future now, but so far XP still has life left in it. Also, thank you for sharing the link to that extension! To post it again, for others' reference: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/downloads-overwrite-alrea/lddjgfpjnifpeondafidennlcfagekbp

I am planning on adding whatever Windows 8/10 functions are necessary for those versions of the browsers to work, so it should happen.

It would be very difficult to duplicate the work I did for the 2017-based files for those. But you may want to try local DLL redirection, where you add a key to the registry using one such file in the extended kernel folder, reboot, then copy the required files to each program's folder, then make a file in the program folder named xxxx.exe.local (where the program name is xxxx.exe). There are some limitations, but there should be a good chance of success for what you want to run. For future projects, I am considering ways to split off the extended functions into their own files so they don't disturb the original system files and are more resilient to updates. One-Core-API does something like adding the new functions forwarding to the new function file from the otherwise unchanged old system file, but that still means that updates will still replace the files, if not worse. The ideal solution would be to, for example, have kernel32 be nothing but forwards to two files: kernelol, which is the existing kernel32, and kernelex, which has the code for the new functions. Or even better, I could change the KnownDLLs entry for kernel32 to kernel33 (so hopefully, programs calling kernel32 will go to kernel33), and make the forwarder kernel33, the existing one kernel32 (so windows updates only update that file without any adverse effects), and kernelex.

Heads up about Firefox installers (78.0.1 to be exact). To install, add "setup.exe" to the list of applications in Application Verifier x86 and adjust version settings accordingly. Firefox 68.9 ESR is mostly working, except for a quirk involving the address/search bars. There are no default search engines and no way to add them. Thus, if you want to load pages directly from the address bar, you have to specify the protocol (like http;// or ftp://). Please note that the uxtheme.dll I'm using is a little stubby, but it does seem to be a far-fetched link. And I'd think that uxtheme would be OK being stubbed as, much like with dwmapi, uxtheme only needs to accommodate themes compatible with Windows Vista and not those for Windows 7. Perhaps some more debugging is needed. As for 78.0.1, it appears we will now need K32GetPerformanceInfo in kernel32.dll. The Firefox executable now also calls for RtlQueryPerformanceCounter in ntdll.dll. The thing is that, ntdll seems to be untouchable in NT 6.0! There's tonnes of extra data beyond the specified sections, which CFF Explorer does not handle gracefully. Stud_Pe does recognize the extra data, and makes new sections beyond it. But I still haven't tried adding any code since, as RtlQueryPerformanceCounter can easily be substituted for something like NtQueryInformationProcess. In fact, now that I extended kernel32.dll and modified firefox.exe, it seems to work similar to 68.9 ESR with the same bug. I'll get to the bottom of this! UPDATE: Turns out that windbg still works with my kernel extensions. So, this is what happens with Firefox 68.9 ESR: Where is search engine information stored in modern Firefox? Furthermore, it thinks I have no Windows Media Foundation. Maybe if I extended it (mf and mfplat.dll) it would work. Maybe. And now for Visual Studio Code: to install it, add VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.46.1.tmp (or whatever the exe is called, just with a tmp at the end) to Application Verifier x86. It needs these functions: shell32 Shell_NotifyIconGetRect user32 ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx SetWindowDisplayAffinity kernel32 PowerClearRequest PowerCreateRequest PowerSetRequest QueryUnbiasedInterruptTime RaiseFailFastException K32GetMappedFileNameW (this one is for Brave browser based on Chromium 83) But apparently Office 2016+ and MS Edge installers (click-to-run) don't like local files, so they won't install.