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Both The Shawshank Redemption and The Godfather load instantly for me on IMDB using 360Chrome!

... And, believe it or not , I do agree with you on this ; one other serious irritant for me is the preposterous waste of screen vertical space due to their very "tall" address bar: Agreed, too... Grabbed just half an hour ago ; disclaimers: 1) I don't use a NHTPG/HO modded version, 2) as can be seen, I'm using the 360EEv13 dark skin...

I wasn't technically talking to you in particular. More of as a generality. I get the opposite on IMDB - which is just plain slow no matter what browser you use (strictly talking XP). 360Chrome loads The Shawshank Redemption in 20.4 seconds. Kafan took 37.7 seconds to load The Shaswhank Redemption.

Hello @Saxon! Thanks for your reply! Your quote refers to version Comodo Firewall 12.0.0.6818 and is therefore version 12. However, I referred to version Comodo Firewall 8.4.0.5165 which is obviously version 8 and therefore older. In this thread, a member has also confirmed what I once read in the Comodo forum and therefore wrote to you: TBH, I have not been a fan of Comodo for a long time, and it's a long time ago when I used it. Furthermore, I do not plan to test this firewall. As I already wrote, my firewall is Windows 10 Firewall Control Free XP 7.5.105.217 from Sphinx, and I am not about to uninstall it for testing purpose. If anyone was interested in testing Comodo Firewall 8.4.0.5165, that would be great, of course.

OK Mister Pedantic, they didn't actually load 'instantly'! They certainly didn't take over 30 seconds to load as was cited earlier though.

UCyborg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/c258otgmmdsk5an/FLASH TEST.html

No disrespect, but "no, they did not". Visual appearances of rendering may be "instant", but that does not equate to the page loading "instantly". When does the stop watch begin? When does the stopwatch end? I let a "page load timer" extension be that stopwatch - it's the blue number in the upper right corner of my screencaps. But even if we resort to the Network Tab of Dev Tools, you have to define when the stop watch is "started" and when it is "stopped". But NOTHING loads "instantly". Not even a direct fiber optic line between you and the server.

Yep, thanks for pointing to the original post! See, that's what I was talking about in the previous page. Thanks for confirming.

CF makes a series of fingerprints, and canvas isn't the main. They look at CH, WebGl, , System Fonts, Clientrects, IP, device CPU cores count, RAM amount, audio API fingerprint, even if you change the canvas, the rest will stay the same.

Just loaded Kafan into a VM and wow, that is annoying and I couldn't find a way to fix it either.

... I don't think, personally, an apology was owed ; those who follow closely this thread should have already been aware of the original post mentioning Kafan (albeit in a 360EE topic): FWIW, I, too, dislike this "behaviour" and, to this day, have not found a way to override it ...

Sorry. I forgot to say, I am talking about Kafan MiniBrowser, not 360 Extreme Explorer.

He means that whenever you type a website (www.google.com, for example) in the address bar, the website opens in a new tab instead of opening on the same tab.

// ==UserScript== // @name mediamarkt.de | saturn.de quick fix // @namespace https://github.com/UCyborg // @version 1.0 // @author UCyborg // @match https://www.mediamarkt.de/* // @match https://www.saturn.de/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== let a = document.getElementsByTagName('style')[0]; a.innerHTML = a.innerHTML.replace(`*:where(:not(iframe, canvas, img, svg, video):not(svg *, symbol *)) { all: unset; display: revert; }`, ''); It was implemented in Firefox first in 2019, that's 4 years ago, pre-COVID-19. So how can you say it will be Google that will come up with something else, it could be Mozilla.

Vista was fine. Just ahead of it's time with the system requirements. To me, Vista was the best looking Windows ever made. And with the proper hardware it ran rock solid, just like Windows 7. Win11 is the second best looking Windows imo. But I have had more broken OS problems after Windows 11 WU runs. I disliked the messy UI of Windows 10 so I stayed with Windows 7 until 11 came out. Windows 11 will probably get one or two big updates and then it is going to maintenance mode while new development will shift to Windows 12, or whatever the next Windows will be called.

Same idea as canvasblocker on random, for sp52?

OMG. If you're gonna open 20 f'ing tabs in Serpent, please read: (You do need some "real" RAM in your PC, and an SSD wouldn't hurt....) BTW, my old work PC died this week. Kevin thinks its the HDD, but it won't even boot from a CD/DVD, so I think it's the SATA controller, which means the motherboard. So I'm using my laptop, on (ugh) Win 11. No more XP, for the time being at least.... I've noticed that Serpent (55, at least) is way faster on the laptop! If only I could ditch Win 11! I'd even settle for Win 10 at this point.

Well, I hope you do it safely, and covering your tracks. Ahem, I hadn't offered any opinion. The PhD holder in your mind is talking to himself.

Yeah, I am and have always introduced myself as an informed user, period. When I find someething noone else (to my knowledge) has noticed, I post in these (among other) forum(s) so people who know point me in the right direction. PhDs today are worth nothing, in my opinion, beyond the quality of the beholder. And quality recognices no academic boundaries, in my humble experience. PS1: I love the Netherlands. I've been there and done all that and will do it again, shortly. Food included. But in the country where I live, ranked foodwise above the fine dutch cuisine, PhDs are things that money pays. And in the streets of my country's cities (they do still exist, like they do in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, at least) they are considered relatively well paid servants of oligopolistic crooks, for the most part. There are of course, exceptions, and among them, only a few (I dare to guess) use XP. Unless they are wise enough. Be well.

Hello @Saxon! As I already wrote here, users reported in the Comodo Forum that the last error-free working version under Windows XP has been Comodo Firewall 8.4.0.5165. Have you really tried this version? Actually, it should work under Windows XP.

Thank you, interesting observations. I am of the same opinion, it was fine up to 2015. I wonder if upgrading even makes sense.

All languages are included in this project. But the inventories are hard to get in all the supported languages. As for V4 updates, they're firstly added in english to properly fix them, and then translated.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20230729-3219d2d-uxp-bdc6b90572-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20230729-3219d2d-uxp-bdc6b90572-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-20230729-3219d2d-uxp-bdc6b90572-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-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230729-d849524bd-uxp-bdc6b90572-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230729-d849524bd-uxp-bdc6b90572-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20230729-d849524bd-uxp-bdc6b90572-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20230729-d849524bd-uxp-bdc6b90572-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Issue #1240 - Part 1 - Define a new BigInt primitive type. Based on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366287 Part 1.0. However leaving out the --enable-bigint changes. (f041afc61d) - Issue #1240 - Part 2 - Define the BigIntObject class for BigInt wrapper objects. Based on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366287 Part 3. In our Part 3 we will fast forward to the V8 implementation skipping GMP. (13ac0d6483) - Issue #1240 - Part 3a - Adjust mozilla::FloatingPoint<T>'s definition. So only the barest details are specified for floating-point encodings, with every other number, bit mask, &c. mathematically derived. Also add a bunch of documentation comments. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508725 Prerequisite for our V8 fast forward. (ddd49121a6) - Issue #1240 - Part 3b - Implement WrappingOperations.h for wraparound math operations & conversions. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441657 Implement mozilla::WrappingMultiply. Prerequisite for our V8 fast forward. (d42d5ce138) - Issue #1240 - Part 3c - Fast-forward to the V8 version of BigIntType. Disabling some sections temporarily since the dependencies are not there yet. Based on the following: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502797 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471134 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441098 Part 3 & 4 Add structured clone support for BigInt and Enable BigInt wrapping from DOM bindings. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522738 (07b6c03dc7) - Issue #1240 - Part 4 - Implement parser support for BigInt literals. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1505849 Partially based on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1456568 Un-result-ified the BigInt XDR code, so we can enable it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1419094 Uninitialised memory read with BigInt right-shift https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1679003 (dc23241afb) - Issue #1240 - Part 5a - BigInt to Number conversion. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1466893 (25ee810247) - Issue #1240 - Part 5b - BigInt support for basic arithmetic operations. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471134 Parts 3-5. (44b5d8dec3) - Issue #1240 - Part 5c -Implement ToInt32OrBigInt operation. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490387 (d44e3c9941) - Issue #1240 - Part 5d - Use the radix when parsing BigInts. Fixes Hex, Octal and Binary BigInt literal parsing. Previously it was only parsing in decimal. (20b52c9e2e) - Issue #1240 - Part 5e - BigInt bitwise operators. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490387 (03734326e8) - Issue #1240 - Part 5f - Add DataView methods for BigInt access. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528582 (e3ec738471) - Issue #1240 - Part 6a - Implement BigInt.prototype.toLocaleString. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366287 Part 5. (e8f0ea219f) - Issue #1240 - Part 6b - Use ToIndex when constructing TypedArray with length argument. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1317383 Part 2. (e004b99054) - Issue #1240 - Part 6c - Implement asIntN and asUintN methods for BigInt values. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501104 (bbbab3898f) - Issue #1240 - Part 5g - Implement BigInt comparison operators. Implement BigInt support for equality operators. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486173 Part 3. Implement BigInt support for relational comparison operators. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492669 (1355043d40) - Issue #1240 - Part 7 - Handle BigInt values in XPCVariant code. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603055 (4a3f1b7570) - Issue #1240 - Part 8 - Fix incorrect asserts with debug enabled. Fix BigInt errors in remainder operations https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524136 Also fix 2 debug asserts in fallthroughs due to missing BigInt cases. (7a30b0fa2d) - Issue #1240 - Part 9 - Fix incorrectly parsing decimal BigInt 0n. The decimal parser strips leading 0s, so prevent tokenbuf being empty. (4aa193b16b) - Issue #1240 - Part 10 - Implement minimal Ion support for BigInt. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507484 Implement IC support for BigInt. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522431 (2d5ee3c457) - Issue #1240 - Part 11 - Fix several issue reported on review. Skip over block delimiters when parsing BigInt literals. Update BigInt hashing to account for the possibility of moving GC. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531018 Make HashableValue comparison of BigInts infallible. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530406 Fix BigInt constructor API CallArgs usage. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526279 (15115c97fd) - No Issue - Fix intermitted crash on MacOS 14 Sonoma Beta 3. Not sure why this is happening but mIOSurface is nullptr. If we just skip binding, it will be created on the next call to BeginUpdate. (0fc38724d1) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. My changes picked since my last build: - js/BitInt: add BigInt support in JitFrames, fix crash in discord when posting. (bdc6b90572) pdate Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

With the advent of BigInt support it is still not possible to log into a Fritz!Box, it still reports: TypeError: Promise.allSettled is not a function and fails to render the password field on the login screen. My current workaround is to use Mypal68 to talk to my Fritz!box when using XP. This suggests that there is some kind of edge case causing Promise.allSettled to fail but I'm all out of ideas as to how to debug it further. Ben.

Of course I'm screencap'ing from my own and not Humming Owl's -

What if you change your fingerprint periodically: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-canvas-fingerprinting/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search They can collect all the fingerprints they like, but they're quickly rendered useless.

Reported on Pale Moon forum, they both use The New CSS Reset.

Hello @WSC4! Of course, you have to make your own experiences. I would recommend starting with New Moon 28, based on Pale Moon, and Serpent 52, based on Basilisk. That's what I am using under Windows XP mainly. BTW, you can easily open a session with 20 tabs or more, but it is not a good idea to open them all at once. I use the extension Lull The Tabs to keep them in an unloaded state until I need one of them. Doing so, New Moon and Serpent consume much less resources. Greetings, AstroSkipper

You're welcome! Glad it works for you!

Interesting! And what if one just extracts them, and then installs via the simple "inf" method?

Do you have an option "Allow memory remap", it usually helps, otherwise I agree, it's a bug in Windows 7, not the case with Vista, weirdly enough.

this is an old problem since feb uncovered by https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/9824659d3c6b1c4fdc2616f789f0696d1cbe2ef8 and https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/b7e4530861fcc971aee9d867b3b376e31263486c and they said it is fixed by https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commit/1f0df8f421626bcbc397512773f3043d72d96a4f but I still need to revert first 2 mentioned commits in order to make it not crashing. Thanks for the information! It would be great if reverting these commits really fixes these crashes. In the meanwhile, I had a further crash in mozglue.dll.

For me, as a simple, temporary workaround, eMatix is helpful. In eMatrix, I blocked 17 scripts, and the website "Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool is available" becomes readable again in New Moon 28. Additionally, uBlock Origin (used in normal mode) is also enabled on this site. Here is a screenshot taken from my New Moon: All is completely readable again. I don't really care which functionality is broken by blocking these scripts. The main thing is that you can read the Microsoft articles again. I reloaded this website a few times and restarted my browser. The website is rendering without any problems and looks like always (when everything was fine). The download of the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool works, too. A positive side-effect is this website is now easy to load and very responsive if blocking these scripts. No negative CPU impact anymore. Hope it stays that way for a while now. Kind regards, AstroSkipper

Ideally, ungoogled-chromium would be the best option. Also I'm still not sure why someone didn't take a backup of the svn/git repo of the last known working compile for win7 along with the build tools, that would at least make it easier to analyse the source at a fixed point in time and perhaps backport things.

Thanks @CIACIACIACIACIACIA! Another new version! The frequency of program updates on Legacy Update has risen sharply. A sign of active development! I already updated the link in my post: Cheers, AstroSkipper

You're welcome! I think it's important to have an overview of all solutions or possibilities for updating Windows XP. This was the main idea when I created this thread.

Legacy Update - An alternative to Microsoft or Windows Update Legacy Update is a community-run resource to help you fix the Windows Update service on earlier versions of Windows. More information and instructions can be found on the homepage of Legacy Update. Here is the link: https://legacyupdate.net/ And this is the download link of the program which is needed to be installed: https://content.legacyupdate.net/legacyupdate/LegacyUpdate-1.10.exe Changelogs & older versions on GitHub: https://github.com/kirb/LegacyUpdate/releases Very important is the hint for Windows XP users on their homepage: Some screenshots of this service: I didn't try this service, no need for me at the moment, but as far as I read in different comments, it works properly with Windows XP and other OSs. Thanks to @maile3241 for the hint! Cheers, AstroSkipper

I totally forgot to mention the main reason why you can't easily put ProxHTTPSProxy in first place. There are three executables relating to heinoganda's proxy, two located in program's root directory and the main executable in a subfolder of it, all with different functIons. In contrast HTTPSProxy has got only one executable. Therefore it's easy to put HTTPSProxy.exe in first place but not in case of ProxHTTPSProxy.

Thanks again for your support and your kind words! I appreciate your opinion very much. I hope you can understand a bit what's going on in my head right now.

Hi @Dave-H, What's a shame? BTW I've found out which OpenSSL version is used in HTTPSProxy. As guessed it's OpenSSL 1.1.0i, so no support of TLS 1.3 in HTTPSProxy.

Hi to all and especially to @mina7601, As I posted above and confirmed by @mina7601, the cacert Updater of @heinoganda's ProxHTTPSProxy packages doesn't work anymore. Applying the file cacert_Updater.exe leads to the message "Roots Certificates could not be updated!". I have analyzed this problem and could fix the file cacert_Updater.exe. Now it works in the way as it should be. Here is a download-link of the new version of cacert Updater in form of a separate archive: https://www.mediafire.com/file/uf20arawpbuiz2y/cacert_Updater_Fixed.7z/file Kind regards, AstroSkipper

Thanks for commenting! And now I have a mathematical statement for you: @Windows7fan = @xpandvistafan I think after evaluation the boolean truth value has to be set to true. What do you think? PS: I hope today is my day!

Thank you for providing a download link of ProxHTTPSProxy REV3e! I have added your link to my article above in section Downloads so that the reader has a better overview.

You're absolutely right. I mixed up the date with Windows ME. I've checked my earliest image and it must have been created in 2004 but it doesn't exist any more. I had deleted all old images below Service Pack SP3. So my earliest version is of 2009. It had been a long time ago. Sorry for causing confusion!

I have had a very sad experience with HP laptop in 2007 . In fact , I hate HP - it's utter junk in my opinion ! For those who are lazy to read , I'll make this short: I had bought a quite expensive laptop it was approx 1500 Euro in 2007 , let me remind about the inflation , it's like 2500 or so nowadays. It was an expensive gift from me to myself for my jubilee. So one could guess how I started to hate Hewlett - Packard when it literally caught fire , right after 1 year warranty , almost at my next birthday. Yes , that's right , it was burning , it's videochip to be precise . Nvidia 8600GT 512mb with fast (by that standards) DDR2 128bit memory . HP cheaped out on the cooling system , as I was told by repairmen . It was so expensive to repair it , so I decided to buy Siemens instead (made in Germany) and it was very good , fast and durable , with Vista , of course . Edit : Forgot to mention specs . DDR2 4gb RAM Nvidia 8600GT 512mb Intel Mobile CPU (don't remember the exact model , I think Core Duo , but it was fast enough) Two separate HDDs (each 250GB)

No fight was intended , you started this marvellous topic about Vista , suddenly there are people that say other (newer WIndows) are somewhat ok too . And this is said among us (!) , Vista die-hard fans . How can it be ? This has been discussed a million times , go to Win7/8/9/10/11/12 forum and discuss it there , besides going off-topic is simply not polite.

Dear asdf2345 , I really appreciate your advice , but why would I wanna do that ? I see you are using Server 2008R2 , it's your choice and I respect it . But I use Windows Vista on all of my PCs. And this topic is about our pleasant experience with it. Please tell us about your experience with Vista.

Hi , so if it's not much changed , it makes no sense to replace it, right ? I'm just afraid of replacing Vista's files , because the sound might get worse overall . One of the reasons I reject all later windows - awful sound quality . Could this be DRM related ? Yet again , the same problem exists in XP (only DTS stereo avaible). What I did today : I've found an updated SP2 ISO (to December 2015). Should be much newer than Win7 RTM 2009 , right ? )) So I installed it ... and guess what - all the same ! Then I took a long breath and installed it on my friend's similar hardware , same too. Then I added "playback devices/supported formats" , registry entries from W7 , now it lets me choose DTS-HD and TrueHD , then I installed PowerDVD and it also lets me choose "HD uncompressed audio" in it's settings , but as soon as I start to play DTS-HD file , it reverts to ordinary bypass setting, I mean DTS (not HD). So one can safely assume : it has nothing to do with updates and/or "playback devices/supported formats" settings , it's a much deeper problem, perhaps Vista isn't capable of playing HD audio at all ,which I find strange. I also find a bit strange that no info could be found ... Edit: Also, not a hardware problem (definitely)

Hi, yes , HD audio (bypass through HDMI to receiver). I've tried all drivers starting from May 2013 and up to 372.70. Right now I have 344.60 installed and will leave it be for some time. I've tried almost all available drivers using both Vista and 7 - the result is the same, no DTS HD MA with Vista , could this be an artificial block which happens upon the installation ? Maybe the installer writing smth to the registry ? I'm just guessing ... If I check with with the panel "playback devices/supported formats" , there are only DTS and DD5.1, so I tried to add registry entries from W7 , now it says DTS-HD also , but it doesn't help to bypass the sound. All Video players I've tried still force DTS HD to be played as usual DTS. I remember there was a similar problem with XP , it had limitations to support "DTS stereo" only . I'm not sure who to blame , Nvidia clearly says DTS HD MA is available with GTX780.