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but now it is funny that safari decided to support JPEG-XL after chrome removed it!

Yep - same goes for me. Just as a reminder, the "web" doesn't use JPEG XL because Chrome pulled support for it, and no Web designer is going to use anything Chrome doesn't support. And Chrome pulled support for it because Google has their own alternative they want the Web to use instead. It's the "not-invented-here" syndrome.

I remember the fuzz when chrome decided to remove the JPEG XL support that was an experimental flag. I know some big companies including facebook really wanted the new format, because it would help significantly with bandwidth and without loss of quality because JPEG-XL has a way to compress classic JPEGs with out any loss, so It is a dream for anyone with a huge image base that are 99% JPEGs and can be re-compressed losslessly, by 20% (more or less). Also for newer images an even higher visual quality per bit can be achieved, so again any photo-store is interested by any ounce of better image compression. Safari adopting JPEG-XP might be enough to make some big website start using it (it should pay for itself in bandwidth saving over time). Of course content is negotiated and classic JPEGs would be given to unaware clients.

@RamonUn I'm no web dev. so can't comment whether server-side or client-side approach is better, but there's also this way: https://jpegxl.io/tutorials/css/ --- I noticed yesterday that even current Ant Video Downloader for vanilla Firefox doesn't download videos properly off YouTube anymore, same issue with the old patched XUL version to handle the difference in request type, manually running FFmprg to merge the streams downloaded with either extension variant results in an error regarding the video stream: Invalid data found when processing input. Certain Invidious instances can still be used, though. Oh well, guess my days of casually downloading stuff off YouTube via browser extension have come to an end.

Subject: Kaspersky Let’s say you are running Windows XP and would like to try a 2018 version of Kaspersky (18.0.0.405) for whatever reason (maybe you live in a nonaligned nation, or maybe you don’t believe the fate of the Western world depends on the software used by a few Windows XP diehards, or maybe your favorite Western antivirus dumped XP users a long time ago). You can find it here: https://products.s.kaspersky-labs.com/

Found it:

Can't speak for others' definition of "best", personally I've been sticking with PotPlayer for several years.

Notice: while there is no significant commit in upstream, and while I'm trying to plug back JPEG-XL, there will be no UXP based build today.

No, it's not a Mozilla browser, but rather a platform toolset in Visual Studio 2017, which is used to build apps for Windows Vista and later. Not to be confused with v141_xp, a platform toolset, which is used to build apps for Windows XP and later. For reference, here is a link to each Visual Studio version and their platform toolsets versions.

Conclusion: October 2022: Latest stable March 6 2023: Maybe/little unstable for 64-bit programs, and quite bad for 32-bit apps March 9 2023: Even more unstable and messed out

Google's webp and avif are not bad image formats by themselves but they are inferior to JPEG-XL and lack the lossless JPEG re-compression. This is not strange I mean, the JPEG team has lot more expertise when it come to image compression algorithms than google. It is a shame that bing.com is using user-agent for content type negotiation, it is extremely bad practice. There is already an HTTP protocol for content negotiation specifically for this reason at least since HTTP1.1 HTTP1.0. There never has been any excuse to use UA sniffing to decide which image format should be delivered to a client. Edit it was introduced in HTTP1.0 (1996) and is not present on HTTP0.9 (1991) ref: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Conneg

... And quite recently, Microsoft themselves adopted Google's webp image format on their "own" webpages/services ... I have https://www.bing.com/ as one of my pinned tabs, and on that the background image changed format from ".jpg" (classic JPEG compression) to ".webp"; UXP-based browsers have no issue with webp, fortunately, but the old Firefox ESR 52.9.1 doesn't support the format: For the time being, MS still serve JPEG to their deprecated IE browsers, so changing the UA to, e.g., an IE9-based one will get the Bing background image back (on a slightly different GUI, tailored for IE): general.useragent.override.bing.com;Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/5.0) NB: FxESR 52 doesn't support SSUAO natively, only via extension(s), however I had restored SSUAO support in it via a method made public years ago (search the forums here, if interested ) ...

@MWF look https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/218#issuecomment-1604600668 Shall plan to publish the new release upon next week. I did like a stress test on mypal 68.13. My pc is core2duo 8500 3.16 ghz, 3 gb ram, hardware accel is off - default value, multiporcesses are 3 for tabs, 1 for extension, 1 for rdd (5 at all - these are default), other settings also default. Also have extensions: ublock, decentrales, сanvasblock, xiaoxiaoflood userChromeJS and downthemall for firefox 68 3gb ram was filled at 30 tabs 15 youdube (one playing) and 15 aliexpress. No any crashes Was opening more tabs, 20 at all 10 for yt and 10 for ali What i notices are freezings and slowdowns when i switch tabs, many windows about "script not responding" where i pushed continue, after all it was still usable. Finally i have closed the browser with all 50 tabs, it has not closed at once though, takes a minute while and closed all successfully. By the way name the most heavy site you know, for me it is yotube. IN CONCLUSION I suggest to leave settings on their default values, toggle ones only if you well know what they do and why, especially do not forcefully turn acceleration, webgl and other grafics stuff, it still remains broken on winxp.

There was an attempt at installing .NET Framework 4.5 on Windows 2000, and it was successful. However, not a single .NET Framework 4.5 app was ran successfully. Here, see this article. (you will have to use a translator, as the link sends to a japanese site)

hi , if you looking for extended kernel link : http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1299806.html Windows2000-KB935839-v31hM-x86-ENU.wlu is latest

“All”? “Anymore”? It would’ve been astounding to me if Kaspersky had ever been listed on page 1, post 2 of this thread (last edited June 12), but of course it never was and obviously never will be. You have only mentioned Kaspersky on page 15 to mention that it will never be mentioned!? MSFN is open to members from all nations (and yes there have been some Russian members). Of course you have a petty military alliance of your own with D.Draker/Cocodile, who has been trying to suppress any discussion of Kaspersky for a long time (offending me in the process even though I’m an American who never used Kaspersky). Your clique appears to be winning the MSFN War, so congratulations on your achievement!

I see, those are not the (more common) two rows Molex type connectors, they are the linear 6 pin ones that some (old) ATX power supplies had., these ones: https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/power_supply/atx-aux-power/ https://pinoutguide.com/Power/atxaux_pinout.shtml https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=31105&seqNum=4 The colour coding of the adapter seems right, black for 0/COM, Orange for 3.3V and Red for 5V. The notch(es) on both the original and the adapter seem "wrong" compared to the reference above, but yes, they can normally be removed with a cutter. The colour coding of the (original) connector seems (even if different) coherent, black for 0/COM, Blue for 3.3V and white/blue for 5 V, but it would be nice to find a reference DELL pinout to make sure. Anyway this adapter is mapped similar to yours and it is explicitly mentioned as being compatible with Dimension 4100: https://www.atxpowersupplies.com/Dell-P10-connector-adapter.php what is "strange is that it is called "P10" whilst your original one is marked "P7" (but with DELL anything non-standard or confusing is to be considered "normal"). It is likely given the blue and white/blue cables (but remember it is a DELL) that your particular machine has an auxiliary connector which is compatible, some (earlier?) models had only 3.3V on that connector. Also I believe you need to check also the actual 20 Pin connector, some DELL's had something different in them, see: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=59959 jaclaz

https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/2262 Apparently they will first go from C++11 to C++14 for the next milestone, and they will see a bit later for C++17. C++14 should be fine for XP builds for now, so roy has more time to figure out what to do. Nice to see a polite discussion about XP, It can be felt than the tension has settled down which is a good thing for everyone given the past griefs.

Recently, I needed to downgrade the Extended Kernel, but finally reupgraded to the march 9 build. The fact is that now Eclipse IDE is not working, while some Java SWT apps still work. Here's the link. https://pastebin.com/raw/ucNvHBPd I'm wondering if this is related with Windows Vista Extended Kernel or is related with a strange Eclipse behaviour. To solve it, I tried to upgrade and downgrade Eclipse. Is also important to tell that I use a portable version. I also tried with different versions of the extended kernel, (all 2023 builds and the latest 2022 build). Apparently only Eclipse is affected. I also tried to install/uninstall Java, but no result since it uses it's own JDK as I could notice.

Including Mypal 68? Edit: Right, the first test I found says unsupported, though there are microphone permissions in browser's settings.

palemoon portable guide by NHTPG. https://msfn.org/board/topic/182415-a-how-to-guide-multiple-browsers-multiple-profiles-no-installation/?do=findComment&comment=1195725

A long time ago I used to routinely clear the Profiles' storage\default folder because it accumulated a lot of data – it's surprising how many web sites quietly use IndexedDB to persistently store who knows what in the profile. Later versions of Firefox handle these sneaky storage areas properly by tying there preservation or destruction to cookies. An example is https://web.lloydsdirect.co.uk (there's no need for an account, the IndexDB stuff gets created just by landing on that page). According to https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/765 these changes were implemented some years ago but I'm seeing what looks like the old behaviour in Serpent. As far as I can see the storage\default folder is unconditionally accumulating data. Is anyone else seeing the same thing? Ben.

To be fair, MyPal 68 is still in beta, and its author lives in a country at war, so I'm not surprised that 68 still isn't very stable. It's stunning that it works on XP at all, given that Rust was supposedly fundamentally incompatible with XP. My comments were merely to express surprise that it's more stable in single-process mode, and to wonder whether that applies to Windows 7 or only to XP.