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Thanks for the warm welcome, Vistapocalypse. Thanks for noticing my username . You're also right that this solution isn't restricted to XP and can be applied to Vista/7/8/8.1/etc. As you pointed out, the disadvantage to this method is that it requires more hardware. However, there's another way for XP users on lower-end hardware: RemoteApp. (Config instructions included in the link.) I've attached a screenshot of 32-bit XP Pro SP3 with 2GB RAM running Chrome 100+ via Windows 7. RemoteApp does not show the entire Windows 7 desktop. It shows only the application you're streaming. No additional third-party software is required. RemoteApp is a feature of Windows Remote Desktop, but you'll need KB961742 for XP SP3. The advantage is that it only consumes ~25mb of memory on the XP client (with all the memory consumption being delegated to the Win7 server machine). The disadvantage to streaming is that it can be a little choppy. For YouTube, you can use yewtu.be on XP Chrome 49 natively instead of YouTube.com via RemoteApp. In both cases, for VirtualBox seamless mode and RemoteApp, hardware to run a modern OS is still required for hosting the browser.

https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/160#issuecomment-1546736807 Check this allready prerelease version javascript now at 78 level, also risen useragent to 78 Yet not implemented RegExp Match Indices proposal as it is at 88 version. How it may be important for force implementing on 78?

Currently listening to music on YouTube while staying in my Windows XP x64 desktop environment. Just 5 steps. Instructions are included in the screenshot.

This is already mentioned in the forum etiquette FYI, number 10.

Agreed. Horizontal for me also. The only justification I see for vertical is because the tab width shrinks when you have too many tabs open or you think you are better off "never" closing tabs. I call this "tab hoarding" and it is surprisingly a browser-habit on-the-rise. It's a practice that has been linked to Attention Defecit/Hyperactivity Disorder. To each their own, of course.

About language packs you are right @AstroSkipper entries was changed, i cannot say how much though, you may try keep language id something breaks you know Also i found that proxy settings window is already broken on this prerelease because of a typo.

Did you update to the latest release of Supermium?

I forgot to add that, it works on Windows 7, only if i add --no-sandbox in Supermium's desktop shortcut, otherwise, it won't work with sandbox included. I still thank you for your work on your own Chromium, though.

@AstroSkipper if your really need that proxy windows chrome\browser\content\browser\preferences\connection.xul On line 95 excess quote at the and.

Good, selective quote. So also: never redundantly quote the previous post in its entirety. Be selective, or simply respond without quoting.

That's good to hear.

Found a way to use RTX 3000 drivers on 8.1 thanks to 3D Guru user " Guzz " : https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/bypassing-windows-8-1-restriction-on-windows-7-drivers.446683/ Can make a little tutorial for those who wants.

That's excellent - thanks mina7601. That work around worked like a charm! I think I've got Mypal 68 working fine now. It'd be nice to change the drop down menus from grey to white for easier reading but it's no deal breaker. AstroSkipper, I'm just an old codger so I like to keep my browser pretty simple. I just use my bookmark links to go anywhere I want to go.

@AstroSkipper No problem, you are welcome.

Statement of facts: Nuhi (Dino Nuhagic, the Author of both Nlite and NTlite) is a longtime (and much esteemed) member of MSFN, and MSFN has always been the official support forum for nlite. The original nlite was finalized in 2008 or so, and then put "on hold" as Nuhi had lots of things to do in his "real" life. Nlite is/was completely freeware and support was largely through the MSFN forum. It actually had a license limiting its use to personal use, and while many people ignored it and used it anyway in corporate environments, others asked for a commercial license. Several years later (circa 2014) he developed NTlite choosing a "limited-free" version + different commercial versions, and setup a dedicated forum for support on his site (though we do have a section for ntlite on msfn). He isn't around on MSFN since 2020: https://msfn.org/board/profile/8552-nuhi/ AFAICR comments, critics, opinions (positive and negative) and discussions on his programs have often been posted on MSFN and (again AFAICR) they have never been moderated unless -maybe - when/if they broke the general Forum Rules. jaclaz

it works again at least the sidebar gadget url. the one for origami is still dead.

On one hand: "Why do people put a space before a question ..." https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/fwejui/why_do_people_put_a_space_before_a_question_mark/ 7 Apr 2020 — "It's for emphasis, tone or to symbolize your speech as relaxed or casual. Sometimes punctuation directly after a word can seem really harsh." On the other: It is also required by the rules in several major European languages, French or Portuguese, for example. I remember my short-lived pen-pal from Belgium always did it. Belgium has three major languages: Dutch, French and Frisian. In France we are demanded to put a space by the rules ! So, as we all can see, as a deputy helper, you deserve the bread you eat ! The fella you talk to, might not be English, or maybe he just reads Reddit too often, I dunno. In English, there is no space between the last word of a sentence and its question mark, that's what I remember from school. @Vistapocalypsesorry for the off-top, I didn't start it.

I finally got around to this again, gameplay is at 5 FPS basically lowest. I press F1 and FPS shoots up to the 30s-40s. The more text or whatever gets displayed the worse the frame rate gets. Doesn't make sense.

OP would rather discuss science fiction films with @UCyborg

I've seen both of them. When I watch movies, I've generally forgotten the entire plot within a week. The 1986 World Series, on the other hand, Game 6, bottom of the 10th, two outs, down by two, I can play the at-bats in my head of Carter, Mitchell, Knight, and Wilson like it was YESTERDAY. Especially Mookie Wilson jumping up and down on the wild sixth pitch and Mitchell tying the score. Then on the 10th pitch, the Mets tied the World Series at three games a piece with a 6 to 5 come-from-behind victory that still ranks amongst the most famous games in baseball history.

You're welcome. And to turn it off, do this: 1. Type about:support in the address bar and press Enter on your keyboard. 2. Click "Open Folder" next to "Profile Folder". 3. Create a new folder with the name chrome. 4. Create a new text file there and rename it to userChrome.css (make sure you have unchecked "Hide extensions for known file types in Folder Options, otherwise, it will be renamed to userChrome.css.txt) 5. Open the file with a text editor (I personally use Notepad++, but the bulit-in Windows Notepad works too), and copy the text from here and paste it to your userChrome.css file, then save the file. 6. Restart Mypal 68, and the bar should be turned off. (All of the above is originally from this article, but I tested it myself, and it works for me normally in Mypal 68)

Thank you for additional information! Too bad KFA 2019 only seems useful for Vista but not XP x86. (Of course KFA 2018 might still be an option for XP.)

as I said, I usually don't use windows xp. On this vista vm there is no ex kernel installed, but I got every update up to vista eos yes, it is activated

it's not, it resets the profile, if brought to another PC. So as any usual chrome version and opera.

When I am back on my desktop computer, I will check whether KB2686509 was installed in my system or not. @we3fan FYI, KB2686509 contains the file kblChecker.dll and is described as a Keyboard Layout Check. It was installed in my system on 21.07.2012.

It's preferable to hide this update, as it is an online installer and it won't work anyway since it connects to Microsoft servers to download Windows Live Essentials files, which are gone from a very long time ago. Anyway, great job on your testing! I like it!

Great job indeed, we3fan. AstroSkipper, for what it is worth, a clean install is almost always better than a lot of fixing and cleaning.

Thank you very much, @we3fan! That's a confirmation I really needed. Unfortunately, I have to conclude that there is indeed a problem in my Windows XP partition (with all POSReady updates). And it doesn't seem to be related to the POSReady updates themselves as I assumed. Therefore, I have to investigate that again and this time much more deeply although I already did a lot of fixing and cleaning. Anyway! Great job! Thanks again for all your efforts!

Welcome to MSFN SuperWorkstationXP. Your hardware must be relatively Super. Many diehards running XP x86 have old hardware that just won’t die, and would be hard-pressed to run two OS at the same time even if Chrome supported 32-bit Linux (which it doesn’t). On the other hand, with the right hardware, this concept is by no means restricted to XP diehards. Chrome has now ended support for everything older than Windows 10. For fans of Windows Vista, this might be an alternative to the extended kernel.

[ These are disabled by default because still unstable, so is better not to enable them at all

Just to provide some context: 1. The problem is that Chrome does not support ECC (elliptic-curve cryptography) cipher suites. Firefox supports ECC, but, like Chrome, Firefox dropped support for Windows XP a long time ago. Even if you're able to get around the ECC barrier, you run into... 2. The latest version of JavaScript is ES2018. Chrome 49 was released in 2016 and does not support async-await and modules. Since async-await essentially gets abused, even if you're able to render the HTML, you won't be able to interact with any scripted elements. 3. A lot of websites use React, which, as you can see, also makes extensive use of async-await. This is why you'll see websites initially rendered for a second on Chrome 49 XP and then immediately flash into a white screen. There was a DOM update followed by a runtime script error. 4. Even with a TLS proxy, you still run into problems with #2 and #3. At the proxy level, you can write an ES5 transpiler which blocks <script> elements until a successful transpile (<script> elements naturally block until the resource arrives from the server anyway), which is what I intended to do, but this runs into more problems: 1) the open source implementations are written in JavaScript and therefore slow, 2) it's too much work to re-implement this in C/C++, and 3) the specification is constantly evolving. By "slow," I mean you can be adding an additional 1-2 second overhead in CPU time per large script on top of the network latency. 5. For #4, you will also need to do this for newer features in HTML5, CSS3, and, potentially, WebAssembly (if it gets any adoption). For HTML5 in particular, there isn't always a suitable shim where newer features can be re-implemented with older features. In a contrived example that doesn't actually reflect real-world implementation issues, you can emulate 64-bit integers using 32-bit registers in WASM, but it's a little different trying to get a video to autoplay if autoplay was never implemented for your version of HTML5. 6. Another alternative is to port browsers. MyPal infamously blue screens. Most attempts of porting newer versions of Chrome to XP have been abandoned, are too buggy to use, or seem suspicious. 7. The web is constantly evolving at a "break the web" pace. Developers simply don't care anymore and will just tell you to upgrade your browser instead of doing the work to support legacy systems. 8. Windows 7/8/8.1 support will be dropped by Chrome by the end of 2023. Overall, the amount of effort in porting or coding needed to make modern websites work with XP is tremendous. I was able to come up with a workaround requiring just five steps. It's true the Debian package manager can run into dependency issues in the future once Chrome starts using newer libraries, but it'll just be a matter of building from source, which I'm sure the community can more than handle. For now, dpkg -i ... is enough to install the latest Chrome, and I set up the instructions, picked the OS, and picked the exact versions so you can install the latest Chrome today as easily as possible. The latest Chrome browser feels like it's natively running in XP, and this was the lowest-effort, highest-reward path.

Whoops! I spoke to soon... Crash with many tabs open in "mozglue.dll". Now I have to go back to old, slow Serpent Also, there seems to be a regression where the screensaver comes on while playing Youtube (at least this happened to me in incognito mode). EDIT: Got this error on closing MyPal:

May be you know why even not 78 but 79 I have overrided minstrictversion to 79 for the fun, and latest ublock 49.2 seems works fine

The latest version is working GREAT! Excellent job sir. WebGL enabled, WebGL2 enabled, D3D9 enabled, multiprocess DISABLED With multiprocess enabled, I got a minor crash (browser recovered from the crash and restarted the tab) in xul.dll. With multiprocess disabled, it is completely stable so far, no issues, multiple tabs and websites. Performance is much better than Serpent, even with no multiprocess. Maybe in the future...

On 8 only in sandbox mode @win32

Cool, works even without sandbox mode now All esu updates installed, even new ones from server2008r2

Add to the list : screaming in CAPSLOCK, "jokes" from non-English users, enormous amount of smileys, patronising language, cheap sarcasm, adding links to "funny" sources, junk/crap in someone's "signature". Saying "me too", "I agree" , making up and then writing absolute crap just to fill out space on the forum.